Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Fretting the neck

So the fretboard has snowflakes inlayed as position markers.  It has been crowned and the frets are being pounded into the slots.

roll of fretwire on really messy workstation.  Cat food for my assistant is in the background.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

ready to ship to the finishers

Sanded out ready to go

a look at the tool and the guide used to cut the mortises for the neck and fingerboard extension

Clamping on the fingerboard

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

adding a top and installing binding

Lyndsay's guitar gets topped


binding on Rick's guitar with epoxie filler

other views

next step is to sand everything out
bit of a taper showing

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Purfling and binding

Binding chanels cut in top

and back

binding stock

cutting the binding strips

Top purfling

Adding the top purfling.  White teflon strips hold the birdfoot purfling line in place.