Ladder-braced parlor guitar

[Lonnie B]

I just barely got awake and encounter this thread. Sigh wish I could afford Caviar. Oh well. Wunner how a sound hole made with a can of pork and beans will sound?

[Kevin in California]

Not very good Lonnie, not very good. :>)

Kevin

[Lonnie B]

I was afraid of that. Hmm! Caviar is fish eggs I'm thinking maybe a tuna fish can. Wonder if the soundhole would know the difference. I can afford tuna fish

[Kevin in California]

Pautzki's "Balls of Fire" (poor mans caviar), might do the trick, but you'd have to use it for the side sound port I think, way too small for the sound hole.

Kevin

[Lonnie B]

Well I've used enough of the balls of fire to catch trout with. Good Bait. Soundhole I don't know about that though

[Dave Bagwill]

Since I routed off the bindings in order to replace the original top with the new ladder-braced top, I had to make some new bindings. I had some scrap maple sides that had plenty of wood to make the outside bindings, but since the router operation, in order to be successful, needed to deepen the channels a bit, I also needed some inside bindings.

Total to be .120" - thick, but perfectly safe with the RR kerfing.

So I cut out a 3/4" form that matches the binding channel, .120" inside the rim. And just did what the pictures show. The device shown - the name escapes me - was really handy for nailing the waist curve.

[Lonnie B]

Pretty awesome Dave that thing is called a thingamajig