Acoustic Guitar Construction

I understand, many thanks again John.

It’s a bolt on mortise and tendon, I use a router with a neck angle jig for the mortise and tenon. As the router will put flat tenon cheeks on, I suspect I’ll have to chisel the 5° angle unless there’s an easier way?

Thank you John, will do.

I’m building my first 12 fret, slope shoulder, guitar and wondered if it’s ok to flatten the end of the guitar where the heel makes contact. It is quite a pronounced curve so if I do flatten it, it will removed half the thickness of the binding at the fingerboard side, not as bad at the heel cap due...

It’s the guitar with the different shaped bridge that has the better sustain but I have a third that beats them all by quite a margin. It’s quite a plain design but is from the same mould and has the same 1/4” scalloped bracing pattern as the others with all braces being split from the same spruce b...

Thank you. I experienced it with my last two builds, both indentical bracing and both European spruce. One soundboard had a noticeably better tap tone, when it was in its rough sawn state and it’s that guitar that now has the better sustain - just wondered if it was a coincidence or if anyone else h...

Thanks Peter, appreciate the info. Only asking because I recently had the opportunity to look through a stack of rough cut boards, all looked pretty similar and all were the same price. What surprised me was that a few had real ring, when tapped, but the rest sounded dead, just wondered if that woul...