Love the curly bear claw Italian top on this one!
Love the curly bear claw top on this one! Nice old Italian.
Getting in close to take a look at the grain.
Ebony bridge… Ebony pins
Not much of this old straight grain Brazilian rosewood left.
A closer peek at this Brazilian.
Style B Special Brazilian rosewood headstock
Nice 50 year old mahogany neck.
That old pattern grade mahogany is something else
Neck set and frets are in… Getting close
Loving this Brazilian rosewood headstock veneer
Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay
2020 guitar necks in process.
The finest grain quartersawn Brazilian I've seen.
Final coat of varnish curing
Starting to taper the necks, getting ready for dovetail
A stack of necks out of one big board
After cutting blanks out of the big board.
First coat of varnish
The end wedge installed just prior to binding.
Yours is the one to the right
Now yours is on the left, this is just after sanding the sides flush and getting all the ripples out. Next I did the rolling pin sander in the waste.
After getting the sides all trued up, I did the graduation on the tops, that is sanding the edges until they have the right amount of flex.
Top getting glued on
Gluing the side braces.
The body gluing molds, yours upfront.
This is the rim assembly with the liner on top and back. I still have reinforcement braces to glue on.
Gluing on the center strip reinforcement.
This is the rim assembly getting the top liner glued on.
Getting the X brace glued on with hide glue, using the go bars.
