Although I didn't post this week, I did get some time a couple of evenings this week to work on the guitar. I spent the time making a back reinforcement strip and gluing it down, chiseling out the brace spots in that back strip, sanding the side profiles, and gluing down the remaining braces. Lastly I made the bridge plate out of maple.
Here is the center reinforcement strip glued down and clamped in my go bar deck. I used some scrap quartersawn redwood for the strip.
The top with all of the braces glued down.
In between glue up sessions I spent time sanding to rims and kerfed linings to the back and top radiuses.
I also made a hard maple bridge plate. I wanted EIR but I didn't have a piece to use so I am settling with maple.
Before gluing the back braces down I chiseled out the spots in the center strip.
Finally I glued down the back braces.
2 comments:
Hey mate, I've searched your blog but can not seem to find any photos of how you joing you soundboard and back plates?
Hi Ted,
Sorry it took me a few days to get back to you. If you look at June 2, Aug 31, Sept 1 and 3 you will see pictures of my clamping jig. On the June 2 page I have a picture of my sanding the joint on the SJ back pieces.
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