Here's a freshly braced top for a parlor sized guitar. It's teeny-weeny! I only need one lower face brace, and one finger brace per side. PGM gave me his copy of "Clapton's Guitar," a very enjoyable book about master luthier Wayne Henderson; I drew inspiration from the photos of his braced tops in shaping these braces.
This is the parlor's braced back. That's mostly cocobolo with a wedge of zebrawood.
Finally, I drilled out the player port on Mr. Sapele. Both sound and reptiles are directed at the player's face. If the carbon fiber rods would ever get here, I could reinforce the neck and end blocks, then install the top, trim the overhang, rout for binding and purfling and finish off this body.
I also bought this cocobolo set from Allied in California. Pretty wild, eh?
2 comments:
looks great.
would this fall under guitar porn? because i am getting excited? is that natural?
The wood came in. It's not exactly that set, but very close. There's less of the straight grain in the back, and the sides are even more dramatic.
This is the prettiest rosewood I've ever worked with. I'm having fun just thinking about what I want to do with it. I think I want to get the back and sides pretty thin, for resonance and bendability. I'm thinking flame maple bindings, a nice creamy european spruce top (I still have one left) and some thin lines of maple and bloodwood for top and side purflings. A nice pointy venetian cutaway would be really cool as well, though I've never done one and ought not make this set the guinea pig.
Guitar porn is right. I don't know if it's natural, but it is common, which is good enough for me!
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