Acoustic Guitar Construction

Tapered and radiused the bloodwood fretboard
Cut some binding strips

Wow, it's been awhile ."Life happened".
Back on this project now and hope to finish this and the ladder-braced brother to this before Xmas.

I'm trying to finish this up. Decided against the bloodwood fingerboard and made a few changes. No sanding or finish in these pictures. It will look prettier soon!
I was going to string it up yesterday to check it out under string pressure, but as I was putting the low E string into its slot, and pushed the bloodwood pin on top of it, and pulled up on the string to seat it - well, the pin shot past my ear and hit the back wall. Unfortunately, the back was has a few hiding spots in it, as you can see. Cannot locate the pin. So it will be a few more days before I can string it, which will give me time to thoroughly sand the body and apply the first few coats of varnish. No pore-filling as I'm using Cherry for the b+s.

The guitar is really turning out nice, I was wonder if it was going to be a five string until I ran across the comment of the lost pin. I really like the sloop shoulder cutaway as well. It will be fun to hear how it sound.

Hey D, I made 2 terz guitars , so I am very curious how this one sounds. No soundhole, huge side port. Looking good so far.

Interestingly, the side port is the same total area that a regular soundhole would take up, so the resonances should be about the same.

Words, Dave, words. Show me evidence!!