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Previous PostPrevious Day 14: Reinforcing the linings, starting the arm rest, assembling the neck, ribs and soundboard

Day by day

  • Afterword: The finished guitar
  • Day 26: Nut, saddle and strings
  • Day 25: French polishing cont… Gluing the bridge on
  • Day 24: French Polishing
  • Day 23: Arm rest, fretboard, neck
  • Day 22: Fretboard and installing the frets
  • Day 21: Filling, heel cap, fretboard
  • Day 20: Purfling and binding
  • Day 19: Finishing the bridge; fitting the purfling and binding
  • Day 18: Arm rest, bridge finished, back on.
  • Day 17: Armrest, fretboard and bridge
  • Day 16: Assembling the back, starting the fretboard
  • Day 15: Domed back bars, assembling the ribs
  • Day 14: Reinforcing the linings, starting the arm rest, assembling the neck, ribs and soundboard
  • Day 13: Lattice soundboard, harmonic bars, rib lining, bridge caul
  • Day 12: Sound port, wedges, lattice struts
  • Day 11: Laminating a rib, thinning and reinforcing the soundboard, cutting struts
  • Day 10: Rosette, laminate sides, struts, lining, soundboard
  • Day 9: Rosette (again)
  • Day 8: Laminating back, bending sides, struts
  • Day 7: Back and sides
  • Day 6: Motif, MDF mould and spool clamps
  • Day 5: Marking out, cutting and carving the foot and heel
  • Day 4: Carving the head, gluing the heel block, planing and sanding the sound board
  • Day 3: Gluing the soundboard and drilling the head
  • Day 2: Veneering the head, cutting the plantilla and making the solera
  • Day 1: Sharpening tools, cutting the neck, gluing the heel
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