Acoustic Guitar Construction

Hi Robert... I've seen a couple of four piece backs... they turned out very nice. Another one had a three piece configuation but with the center "wedge" made up of five or six smaller wedges of different colorful types of wood, if you can picture that. It was beautiful! As to book-matches,...

RayRay... keep posting. We need the thinking of the so clearly young at heart. And please accept my positive thoughts.

Hi Dave...

It's looking good! It only gets better from here!

I like your cut out.,, I've yet to try one.

Terry

Dave: No, I haven't buffed the TO. I intend to give it try on one though... trying to decide what kind of buffer would be best considering my small, already cramped shop and equally cramped budget. I have noticed that after six or eight coats that gently sanding back starting with 320 then finer and...

There's little I can add to your very good technique. I've been using shellac to fill...adding coats and sanding back. If I can figure out how to keep the TO from drying into a too pasty texture too quickly while sanding I intend to try your slurry method.

I hope this is what you had in mind for this thread... If not go ahead and delete it. This is a pattern I'd been thinking about for a while and tried it out on a Black Oak/Spruce. I think this method of reducing mass leaves a stiffer brace with maybe even less mass than scalloping... no scientific t...

I want to thank you Ken, for developing this new forum. So far I like it a lot! Great information... I can see you've put a lot of time and heart into it.