Acoustic Guitar Construction

Excellent photos Daniel, I love seeing them. Your plane must be really sharp. There's something rewarding about seeing those wispy-thin continuous shavings, isn't there.

thanks for the encouragement guys - this is a great group.

I have a lot to learn about sharpening/using wood planes, but from my experience sharpening/honing straight razors I learned about lapping film. Its the stuff they use to polish the ends of fiberoptic cable for joining.

After sharpening on an extra fine diamond plate, I run through a progression of 12, 9, 5, 3, 1 micron lapping film - for wood tools stopping at 5 micron is plenty fine. Puts a mean edge on your steel.

Using one of my Christmas presents to thin the back braces a little before gluing them on.

Crikey, mate, those be some thin thin shavings. Veritas standard block plane?
Nice.

Dave, thats the Veritas low angle version. Really had to watch for tear-out with that low angle blade, but absolutely love the precision adjustments. I'm thinking about getting a 38 or 50 degree blade for this plane, for use in these occasions.

I've been using lapping film to sharpen my plane irons and chisels - changes everything.

Wow this is looking great! Looking forward to the next set of pics.

Your work on the guitar looks really good. I like the veritas low angle block planes. I did buy different angles but I have never changed out the twenty five degree. If it feels like you might get tear out on the spruce braces just go the other way.