colins
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Post by colins on Mar 15, 2016 20:31:51 GMT
Some time ago James Daubney borrowed a little Caucasian Spruce/Cypress FE19, that I made for Dave some years ago, for a gig so I offered to make James a classical and he jumped at the chance. He paid me a visit and played a couple of my guitars, nice to hear them being used again, and we settled on a European Spruce/Madagascan Rosewood Torres FE19, but with a few little twists. The guitar will have a bolt on neck rather than the more usual Spanish Heel with the sides let into the neck, I'm also going to fit a K&K classical pickup. (At this point a herd of classical builders are throwing themselves of Beachy Head!) Anyway, James went off with my own tornavoz FE19 'La Lena' to used until his guitar was finished, and the game was afoot.
The guitar will be:
Top: European Spruce (Bavarian) B&S: Madagascan Rosewood Neck: Cedrella with Mahogany heel FB: Macassar Ebony Bridge: BRW Bindings: Macassar ebony
Here's the wood:
The top and B&S were sandied to joining thickness of about 3.5mm and the sides thinned to 2mm.
This top is from Bavaria and was cut in 2004, it is one of the top three soundboards I have handled and I have been saving it for a special project.
Now this is what you call quarter sawn, stunning.
Colin
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Post by leoroberts on Mar 15, 2016 21:31:55 GMT
Hurrah! Another build thread... Love seeing the dark arts being put to good use by the luthiers on 'ere...
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Post by Martin on Mar 15, 2016 21:44:37 GMT
Beautiful wood - a great start to any build  |
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Post by davewhite on Mar 15, 2016 22:24:58 GMT
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Post by R the F on Mar 15, 2016 22:58:27 GMT
You've had me on tenterhooks waiting for this one and the new competition build since early November when, I believe, you said you'd be making a start "in the New Year". Been hibernating? I was even wondering if you'd decided against sharing the builds with us so it's great to see them off and running.
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Post by ocarolan on Mar 15, 2016 23:03:59 GMT
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Post by colins on Mar 16, 2016 0:00:26 GMT
You've had me on tenterhooks waiting for this one and the new competition build since early November when, I believe, you said you'd be making a start "in the New Year". Been hibernating? I was even wondering if you'd decided against sharing the builds with us so it's great to see them off and running. It's still the new year I believe, and would be until 31st December. Hibernating, no, I've been getting on with the rest of my life, you know, the important stuff.
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Post by francis on Mar 16, 2016 6:28:07 GMT
Brill  |
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Post by colins on Mar 18, 2016 18:27:08 GMT
The edges of the plates were jointed, and they were glued together using Hot Hide Glue and the tent method.
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Post by R the F on Mar 18, 2016 21:21:36 GMT
I keep coming upon different methods that different makers have for what appears (to the uninitiated) to be the simple process of sticking two pieces of wood together edge to edge. Nice to see a simple old method that still works fine. |
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Post by colins on Mar 20, 2016 19:27:07 GMT
Sides were bent in my bender, another step done that now I can't cock -up! Actually Mad rose when quartersawn can split along the grain but I managed to get them out whole, so success!  Colin |
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Post by 007 on Mar 20, 2016 20:21:23 GMT
going to be a great build
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Post by colins on Mar 24, 2016 16:26:58 GMT
The head block and tail block were made and both they and the linings glued in with fish glue. Then a bit of rock and rolling with the radius dishes and we have the rims done.   Colin |
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Post by davewhite on Mar 24, 2016 16:31:34 GMT
Colin, Looks lovely . . . classical even  |
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Post by colins on Mar 24, 2016 19:13:04 GMT
Colin, Looks lovely . . . classical even Classical with a twist Dave!
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