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Hand Tool moments -- and a Hack -- from 2024 guitar build - C. in Indy - 10-14-2024
Some time earlier this year I only posted a couple of these pictures.
I was off work several months, and I killed some time making a small guitar. It is really to my liking, even if not fully polished and professional.
I used rift-saw Red Oak for the back and sides... not a best-selling choice, but it has a sound I very much like.
Using the No. 6 to thickness one of the sides prior to bending:
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Bending the side with a thrift-store curling iron:
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Smoothing the back joints with my ECE Emmerich horn plane:
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Installing a hand-curled rosette into a round slot cut with my Lee Valley string inlay cutter:
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Cutting a place for a "beauty splice" where the 2 curved sides come together:
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Inserting a thin wedge to beautify that joint:
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More to follow!
RE: Hand Tool moments -- and a Hack -- from 2024 guitar build - C. in Indy - 10-14-2024
More stuff...
Using a shop-made miter box and my thinnest saw to tightly cut fret slots:
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Hand carving a neck profile:
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First playing moments:
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Lately -- courtesy of Putin's hackers -- my exact doppelgänger has shown up on YouTube:
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RE: Hand Tool moments -- and a Hack -- from 2024 guitar build - barryvabeach - 10-14-2024
Very nice work - the photos show it well.
RE: Hand Tool moments -- and a Hack -- from 2024 guitar build - Barry Johnson - 10-14-2024
Well done sir. Was this your first one?
RE: Hand Tool moments -- and a Hack -- from 2024 guitar build - AHill - 10-15-2024
Nice job. I've never even considered oak as a tonewood. How would you characterize the tone? I own 4 acoustic guitars but never considered building one.
RE: Hand Tool moments -- and a Hack -- from 2024 guitar build - Bill Holt - 10-15-2024
I know nothing about guitars, but I do recognize quality hand work when I see it. Thank you for posting.
RE: Hand Tool moments -- and a Hack -- from 2024 guitar build - Pedder - 10-15-2024
Wow. A beatiful and usefull music instrument. That is the subdiscipline of woodworking I admire the most!
Take Care,
Pedder
RE: Hand Tool moments -- and a Hack -- from 2024 guitar build - C. in Indy - 10-15-2024
Thank you all!
In response to the questions:
It is my 2nd build, and the first time essentially from scratch. My 2022 build was with a body using walnut and mahogany-- OK, but I had made the back too thin and it sounds a little tubby.
This 2024 build, I wanted to make it from everyday stuff, and reading up I had seen that oak was usually avoided only for the open grain appearance, and not for the sonics. Sonically I would place it close to rosewood. It's really a delight, and I think I got the top and back resonances and thicknesses to work, quite fortunately.
The Russian hacker obviously went for a solid-body instead.
