The Hundredth De Faoite

The back and sides are then pore filled using egg white – 240 grit sandpaper is dipped into the egg white and sanded on the back and sides to make a wood-slurry that is pushed into the pores. The egg white acts as a binding agent and the pores are effectively filled by the same wood dust:



Then the body and neck are sprayed with pre-catalysed lacquer:

Pukka . . . or something that sounds like that

Rob,

I actually find it quite therapeutic and I've smelled worse things making instruments. No need to waste the egg yokes - creme caramels for me and colins uses his in egg-nogs.

The position for the bridge is scribed and the lacquer carefully removed:



Then the bridge is glued on using hot hide glue:



The label is signed and glued in:



Even “selfish, snobbish” luthiers like me sometimes don’t quite get things quite right but it’s never too late to make changes. With the bound sound-hole rosette taking away the usual inner spruce ring of the top I decided that visually the Madagascan Rosewood bindings weren’t working in tying in the rosette – it took the eye completely like a big black hole and the sides looked too dark and deep. I decided that Cuban Mahogany bindings would break up the look of the sides and tie in with the rosette and neck and so replaced the Madagascan Rosewood bindings with them. 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 adjusting the neck relief with the truss rod, cutting the nut slots and setting the saddle heights. Here’s the finished guitar.









At the end of 2015 my eldest daughter bought a narrowboat called “Little Lucy” that where she lives on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and I wrote a tune called “Little Lucy” in honour. Now there’s a “Little Lucy” living on”Little Lucy” as well – our first grandchild – and so I’ve re-named the tune “Little Lucys”. Here it is played on “Daithi”:

"Little Lucys"

Thanks for listening and following “Daithi’s” creation.

I love the '100' feature on the end thingy-wotsit. Really enjoyed the thread and hope to have a play of the geetar at some stage in the future

I concur with what Keith says: great concise thread and a superb result. Congratulations on becoming a granddad!