"Bogha Beag" - an eight string Piccolo guitar

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"Bogha Beag" - an eight string Piccolo guitar Aug 26, 2020 15:00:47 GMT ocarolan, leoroberts, and 4 more like this

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The bridge is carefully positioned on the top and the outer two bridge-pin holes are drilled through:

The holes are reamed with the 3° reamer enough for the East Indian Rosewood bridge-pins to hold the bridge in place:

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". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don "Mastercrafts", BBC March 2010

davewhite Luthier / Guitar Maker Luthier Aemulor et ambitiosior Posts: 3,548	"Bogha Beag" - an eight string Piccolo guitar Feb 25, 2021 17:38:21 GMT ocarolan, leoroberts, and 4 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by davewhite on Feb 25, 2021 17:38:21 GMT It's been a while but I've finally got around to spraying:
	*Aemulor et ambitiosior* ". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don "Mastercrafts", BBC March 2010

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"Bogha Beag" - an eight string Piccolo guitar Mar 25, 2021 13:20:41 GMT ocarolan, andrewjw, and 3 more like this

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Post by davewhite on Mar 25, 2021 13:20:41 GMT

The position for the bridge is scribed and the lacquer carefully removed. Then the bridge is glued on using hot hide glue:

Setting up the instrument involves fitting the Gotoh tuners and nut to the neck, bolting on the neck, reaming and slotting the bridge pin holes, fitting the bone saddles, fitting the strings and dialling in the desired action and playability by cutting the nut slots and setting the saddle heights. Here’s the finished guitar:

Recording to follow in due course.

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"Bogha Beag" - an eight string Piccolo guitar

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