Acoustic Guitar Construction

Most excellent Herman. I love everything about it.
Can't wait to hear it

Thanks Dave
The shellac sealer made the Birdseyes pop

Finishing has begun. I pore filled the ebony, rosewood and mahogany with shellac and sawdust, then wiped on 2 very thin coats of shellac as a sealer (first time doing this, always used vinyl sealer in the past). I jus sprayed my first coat of nitro lacquer and the realized I forgot to mask off the b...

Herman
that's good to hear. This one is maple, spruce, sapele, mahogany. ebony, with only rosewood back strip and endwedge. I'll seal those with shellac when I pore fill them and go for the lacquer.
Thanks Buddy

So I'm out of vinyl sealer. I've always sprayed it under the nitro because, well, I've assumed you're supposed to. Right?

Has anyone routinely skipped the sealer and just started with the lacquer, and if so how have the results been for you?

Thanks for any input.

Kevin

Wow It's been many months since I finished up the body of this violin and just this weekend pulled the project out and started on the neck. I'm slowly working on the scroll. This will be my 5th scroll but I still don't get/remember the process and concept to achieve the desired results so it's a slo...

So I had this 36" x 4" x 3/4" Bocote board for a number of years and the other day I saw it and said to myself: I bet I can get some cool bridges from this. So today since I've been making up some bridges I looked again and figured out that I could get 2 bridges, 2 fretboard, and some...