Acoustic Guitar Construction

Finished! It’s starting to open up. I’ll get a sound clip up soon. E060E7C7-7765-4A35-9365-A3FA858B43F5.jpeg 65639EFF-3E47-499E-B152-7E9949B48DFF.jpeg D37A2F36-06C9-490D-9111-0B7BE7AA89BB.jpeg 8B1E792A-24E5-460A-9519-F97B9202640C.jpeg A1AFEFD9-A22F-4BEA-8615-34CF69D72931.jpeg 91BE5328-320B-479C-95A2...

At last a bit of progress. I like to let the finish harden for a couple of weeks before I glue the bridges on. I had gotten a new vacuum pump a few months ago and it’s time to give it a run. When I mark the location of the bridge I have begun using 3/16” dowels as registration pins at the outside ho...

I haven’t yet found the perfect pore fill and it’s an area I certainly have not achieved stellar results. I seem to get close with epoxy pore fill though.

John

Thanks Greg and Herman, I appreciate it. Thanks also Dave. I learned to do tru oil from you on the forum here, but I’ll post how I do it at present. Supplies: Tru oil, extra large cotton balls, squares of well washed good quality t shirts, paper towels or shop towels folded to fit around a backer to...

Getting there. This is after about twelve coats of tru oil. John

Very nice.

This guitar was my first with cocobolo. I thinned sides to .075”, spritzed with SuperSoft 2, let sit for about a half an hour or until it started to dry off, then a spritz with distilled water and wiped off excess. Then wrap in parchment paper then foil then bent. For me it went very smoothly, no ri...