Acoustic Guitar Construction

TonyinNYC wrote:I agree with Ken, but at the same time if you are getting the correct gap above your bridge, go for it. The problem becomes greater when you over analyze things and become paralyzed to move forward!

Thank you Tony...it's my nature!

I'll sum up the situation going back to the original photo of the poor fitting neck joint " high and off angle " What was determine by the measurements and other photos is that the neck heel is not angled properly, its 90 degrees and should be 88.7 +/- degrees. And also the slope of the t...

I can only tell you how to do it the right way. I have no idea if your solution is going to work or make things worse? In my view that rim is really distorted on the top edge and is going to cause you grief. Where did you get that kit? If its from the Martin factory or one of the Ebay sellers the b...

Bingo -- glad you noted that comment on the Martin video and as you can see their sanding machine is designed to do exactly what Chris mentions -- over the years I have had much conversation and email exchanges with the guys at the Martin factory regarding this process and the goal. Mark Brickert i...

Let's get a good angle measurement of the neck heel -- place the neck on a flat surface, place a square along the cheek -- what's the height of the heel and the length of the gap between the square and the cheek? There are two locating pins screwed into the neck for the fretboard, preventing it fro...

This is really pretty simple to get right. If you don't mind I need to understand what you have here. The sound -board is not attached at this time -- is that correct? You sanded some material off the neck heel so we need to know what angle you made it -- is the finger-board still loose as well? My...

Hi, new member here. I've got this Martin Style OM w/ a M&T joint in progress that's been held-up for a few years now & I'm hoping to get the top on & move forward till completion...as time permits. I was having trouble getting the neck angle correct due to some aggressive sanding at the...