Acoustic Guitar Construction

I am remiss about pictures lately, sorry. I'll take a few tomorrow night and post.
I sprayed one coat of sealer on the guitar this afternoon....it was 100 degrees, yikes, but it was just to seal the pores before pore filling and the sealer will be sanded off the surface before starting to spray again. I did some pore filling with Timbermate on the indian rosewood. This stuff is so easy to use, I love it. I mixed about 50/50 of the rosewood and ebony colored filler. The stuff when dry in the pores and sanded back looks very greyish, but when the finish goes on it becomes dark like when it was wet. It gives a nice depth to the grain. As this stuff dries so you can sand it back in about 20 minutes with as hot as my shop is I should finish the pore filling tomorrow night. Then Tuesday I hope to put up my portable spray booth, and I should start spraying nitro on Saturday morning before the day gets too hot.

Kevin

I am neither a heel nor a cheese. I'm just a cave man. Your modern tools and cell phones frighten me.

I now have the body of the guitar pore filled. A little final inspection and clean up, and a light sanding on the top and it is ready to start getting the lacquer. Tonight I'll pore fill the neck, again using Timbermate in the rosewood color, and I'll put up the spray booth on my back patio.
Also see the pic of the bridge I made for this guitar. It is Madagascar Rosewood like the fretboard and the head stock veneer, although the headstock does not have the same appearance with the lighter color and black streaking. It has more of a light dark mottled look, different, but I still like it.
My previous bridges have come to a point at the bottom. This time I rounded that lower apex a bit and I think I like it more, not so abrupt.


Kevin

That is a sweet-looking bridge.

Got the booth up, rose at 5am this morning so I could spray before it gets hot, and before I went to work. I got 2 coats of vinyl sealer on. The colors look great. I'm excited.
I'll examine tonight, and then Saturday morning I'll get up early and spray 3 to 4 coats before the temps get over 85 degrees.

Kevin

In the booth.....

Kevin

Dave Bagwill wrote:That is a sweet-looking bridge.

I agree. Tony has a nice one as well. I would like to have my own distinctive saddle and headstock shape and am working up designs.