Rough Cutting the Guitar Neck Source: Guitar Building Articles – The Guitar Neck Tools and Materials Required: Band Saw Table Saw & Miter Gauge Japanese Pull Saw Coping Saw Rough-cut The Neck – Acoustic Guitar: Tip: This step should be completed after you have cut your neck joint, whether that is a mortise and tendon [...]
Tools and Materials Required: Heel Restraint Jig Titebond III Glue Waxed Paper (4) Bessey or Large C Clamps Chop Saw or Table Saw Stationary Belt Sander or Drum Sander Amazon.com Widgets The Acoustic Guitar Heel: The Acoustic Guitar Heel consists of several stacked blocks of neck blank wood, glued up with specific grain orientation and [...]
Tools and materials Required: Japanese Pull Saws Fine Dovetail Saw Wood Chisels Sandpaper 180, 120 Grit Titebond III Glue Wood Lining Blocks Small Hand Built Miter Box Acetone Wet Cloth Amazon.com Widgets Free-Floating Top Installation: Whether it is a Classical Guitar top or an Acoustic Guitar top, the free-floating top, as I call it, can [...]
Guitar Soundboard with Bracing Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Top Tools and Materials Required: Go Board Gluing Tool Titebond III Glue Fine-Toothed Japanese Pull Saw
Guitar Back – East Indian Rosewood Source: Guitar Wood Selection Guitar Backs/Side sets offer the luthier even more option that do the guitar top plates. The reason for this is not only are guitars build from domestic hardwoods, even more often they are built from exotic hardwoods. For your convenience we have listed a number [...]
Guitar Back Center Purfling Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Back Classical Guitar Purfling As for the classical guitar, the center purfling strip is usually very conventional, it consists of a 3-part wood detail. the center portion of the wood matches the wood purfling around the guitar edges and that wood usually matches the back/side wood [...]
Guitar Top Preparation Source: Guitar Building Articles/The Guitar Back Preparation of the Back Plate: Tools and Supplies Needed: 24″ Aluminum Level Adhesive Sandpaper 220 Grit r Guitar Plate Jointing Jig Titebond III Glue 2-Part Epoxy Glue Dremel Moto Tool 4000: Portable Block Sander If you haven’t purchased your back/side sets yet or are wondering what [...]
Kasha/Schneider Fan Bracing Diagram Source: Guitar Plans The Post Modern Classical Guitar – The Kasha/Schneider Bracing: So for a long time many luthiers stagnated on one of the variations of bracing that existed. Sure they experimented, but usually this meant moving the fan bracing around or trying different patterns based on discoveries of Torres, Ramirez, [...]
Ramirez Fan Bracing Diagram Source: Guitar Plans // Ultimate Guitar OnLine on Facebook The Modern Classical Guitar – The Ramirez Brothers: After Antonio de Torres died in 1892 he had left no pupils or immediate successors in the guitar making business. He did, however make Madrid, Spain the Mecca of classical guitar construction. From the [...]
Torres Fan Bracing Diagram Source: Guitar Plans // Ultimate Guitar OnLine on Facebook The Modern Classical Guitar: While there were many forms of the guitar that preceded his fine work, Spaniard Antonio de Torres is noted for making the most advances on the classical guitar and the results of his work are largely represented in [...]
