Acoustic Guitar Construction

I happened across this cheap Chinese thermometer/hygrometer today and had to laugh. Imagine you are a person who speaks no English, and your job is to create the faceplate for the product with English text. Naturally you type some text in your native language into a translation program, and then cop...

I'm still a newbie so I mostly try to learn from the experience of others, and I've been making braces shaped like the one on the right - but does anyone really make them like the one on the left anymore? I just haven't come across examples of that so maybe enough people have read Somogyi's book and...

I really like the rosette and the end flash. And the back - I can't quite decide whether it's a 3-piece back with a narrow center or a 2-piece back with a super-wide center strip but I like it, nice use of the ambrosia maple.

Some may think the following is overly scientific and not worth the trouble, and I won't argue with that since I've only built a few guitars so far and to each his/her own after all, so feel free to tune out if you don't like this kind of approach but here's what I do. In the Gore & Gillet book ...

Way funny, but actually that "moron lamp" looks pretty useful, as it would throw less light to the sides and moron what I'm doing.

Nice Dave, but that still sounds too time-consuming. I plan to use this tool that fills and polishes in one step, haven't tried it on a guitar yet but you can see the fast build-up I got on this concrete countertop: http://brainright.com/OurHouse/Construction/Countertops/CottageBath/20100526015_Cott...

Eric, thanks for posting those. I will be doing something very similar soon, as I've lined up some local blue spruce trees that the property owner doesn't want and I can cut for guitar tops. The trees are not quite that big so I think I can get by with a smaller helicopter, or maybe just a wheelbarr...