Acoustic Guitar Construction

That is one terrific looking bass guitar. Love to hear the sound clip when it's done.

I was a woodworker back in the 70's and 80's. Custom furniture,picture framing and so forth. Then it was on to Wall Street. Twice before I started an acoustic guitar from scratch but never came close to finishing it. About 10 years ago I did a Strat copy which plays very nice, but I rarely play it. ...

I tried uploading pics yesterday, but..file size was too large. Hopefully after some reading..we'll see....I'll try again...and again.
You can call me JM or joolieboolie.

I just finished my first build. I have quite a bite of errors and I have learned quite a bit. Walnut back and sides. Engleman face. I purchased a maple burl piece used for gunstock. It was too small for theneck head so I split it in half,not too easy without a bandsaw. It was my first attempt at ven...

Thanks for getting back so quick: I did not panic. I did fix that problem by carefully removing the part of the rosetta that wasn't seated properly. I used a very small jewelers screwdriver and a sharp xacto blade. I worked very carefully. The piece of rosetta broke but I was able to re glue it with...

I thought I was progressing smoothly except for a few minor problems which I managed to correct. However, I glued in the rosetta yesterday afternoon and I just took off the clamp. I don't know what went wrong, but the outer circle did not seat properly on one side -the rosetta piece is sitting high ...