Acoustic Guitar Construction

Hello everyone. This issue that I am running into has happened for the second time now and I don't know what to do. I have just closed the Box and glued the top onto the sides and back a couple of days ago and I brought the body inside (from being in the woodshop) to keep it in a safe location. This...

Excellent! Thank you for the assurance.

Hello everyone, need some help deciding on what to do. My father had the idea of staining/oiling the inside of our acoustic (that we are about to close up) with some watco natural Danish oil/Finnish and I'm not sure if this would be a good thing or a bad thing. Obviously it would look nice but I'm n...

okay, so we sawed the board of cherry we had into the sides and back panels to the needed thickness and are sanding them down. instead of laminating the cherry (where i read on numerous websites) we are just going to go with 0.070 thick sides and bend those to the cut away. here are the photos of th...

I can upload one when I am in the shop again. Would the cherry work for the type of playing I do? And if I kept the thickness the same on the sides all around I would be able to do it without the cutaway, correct?

I'd have to check on that but it is a pretty standard curve for a cutaway

Hello everyone! Looking for some help and advice... I posted a topic in the side bending section and unfortunately, after attempting to bend the Doug. Fir into a cutaway at 0.077 thickness, it split. So back to square one with choosing woods! So here are the questions I would like to ask: We will be...