Acoustic Guitar Construction

Gentlemen, Thank you for your input! I did wipe the h/s veneers with solvent to try and see what they would look like finished. Even the rag I wiped with showed yellow-ish from the new veneer and red-ish from the original. Since I intend to do a silver wire inlay on the fingerboard that will continu...

The neck from Martin arrived yesterday and I am quite pleased. It appears to be a direct replacement right down to the fingerboard locating pins. The wood species seems the same although a little more figured. The contour machining is much cleaner than the original and it is straight! Hallelujah! Th...

Well, I am surprised! I emailed Martin about a neck and later the same day got a call from them. They have four necks that fit the specs I gave them: mahogany, 14-fret, long scale, solid head, mortise and tenon, single bolt, routed for one-way truss rod. The price was reasonable, I thought, ($40) so...

I guess the pictures are deceiving. The gaps at the ends of the straightedge in the second picture are .050" to .060". If it were three times that I would indeed be concerned. Ken, you mentioned the "slope" of the truss rod slot. Is the truss rod laid in deeper at one end than th...

I've seen comments that Martin made up their kits out of parts rejected for factory guitars. Maybe your neck looked like that when it went into the box... Well, the story I got was that during this era Martin did use their cosmetic seconds in the kits but that the parts were suitable for making a q...

Hey, thanks for the replies, gentlemen. To tell the truth, I don't like the idea of spending more money on another neck for a kit that in the end will only yield a laminated guitar. (Though I have come across some people who really like their 000-1) Jointing off the high center seems doable. I would...

Some time in the last couple of years I came upon a Martin kit for a 000-1 that was mostly unassembled. From what I’ve read, the 000-1 was a less expensive model with laminated sides and abbreviated top bracing which was marketed between 1995 and 2005(?). This kit was purchased in 2001, I believe, s...