My first classical guitar

John Parchem · Post by **John Parchem** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:42 pm

It will take a bit of work to make a rosette like that. The installation looks great.

Kevin in California · Post by **Kevin in California** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:28 am

Bridge patch and fan braces are on the top. Hope to get the harmonic bars and two upper transverse braces on tonight. I am so slow!

Kevin in California · Post by **Kevin in California** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:25 pm

When I thicknessed this redwood top, it planed really nicely, easily using my older Stanley #65 block plane. It was like cutting butter with no tear out.

Kevin in California · Post by **Kevin in California** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:27 pm

Got the braces all glued on the top last night and did some carving (after this picture was taken). Just some light sanding to do now and I'll fit the top to the rims.
Then I'll be ready to glue the back and top on. Yah!

John Parchem · Post by **John Parchem** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:21 am

Looking great! It will be good to see it come together.

Kevin in California · Post by **Kevin in California** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 2:23 pm

Saturday I was able to get the back and top glued onto the rims. I did this using the go-bar deck. The guitar is sitting on a work board that has a 30ft. radius in it just on the lower bout area to where the bridge will be. The rims are sitting on the top, and there is a shim under it to raise it about 2.5mm, then the neck shaft is clamped down, which hopefully will create about a 2.5mm foward tilt to the neck body joint. This is suppose to allow for a lower bridge height. The back is then glued on. When dry I took the guitar off the deck, cleaned up any glue squeeze out inside, then put glue around the rims for the top, set it in place, and put the whole thing back in the go-bar deck the same way, shim and all and using the go-bars again to clamp down on the top for gluing it.
I now have a box. The redwood top is being finicky about splintering around the edges, little pieces of the grain lifting out, so I've applied some shellac around the perimeter of the top and I'm taking the overhang down by hand with a chisel as I don't want to risk chip out using a router. I'll trim the back down flush using the router.
When I'm ready to cut binding channels I'm planning on using a gammil to score the top for the binding channel before using the router to cut the channels, again to avoid the chip out.
Soon it will be out of the mold for the rest of the build.

Kevin

John Parchem · Post by **John Parchem** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:15 am

I am always happy to get the red wood tops glued down as they are really prone to crack. Using the grammil is a good idea.

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