Acoustic Guitar Construction

Thanks for the votes everyone. However, in my late night daze, I posted pics of the walnut dread and my binding choices for it, in the wrong thread. I should ask Ken to move the posts about the poll and put them in the thread about the walnut and cedar dread.

Anyway, I cut the binding channels for the black limba guitar tonight. Here is a pic of my set up. I use my KMG mold and the shims that came with it to shim the box very high in the mold so my IA Router binding attachment will clear the mold. I then clamp the mold to the table so everything stays put while I route the rebates.


Here is what the finished product looks like:


And here is the first neck fitting:


That is where I will end for tonight.
Thanks for looking,

Tony

I have not chosen binding for the walnut guitar yet. I was asking for opinions. In any event, if I use the curly mahogany, and the walnut gets lighter over time, wont the two get closer in color and create less contrast?
I took some high res pics of the guitar:


This top has tons of subtle bear claw and I love how it looks.
Here you can see the claw a little better:


Awesome. Just my opinion, but that is how I feel about this top. Awesome.

I had saved all of the cut offs for each guitar I build. I never had a use for them, but I finally came up with something! This guitar is black limba (obviously) ad I am binding it with black limba. This left me in a bit of a pickle! I usually make the tail wedge from the same wood as the binding. But since I only had enough wood for the binding and nothing for the tail wedge, I didnt know what to do. And, to top it off, I had thrown away a bunch of scraps while building this guitar! I was considering using the same walnut burl that the rosette was made of and then I stumbled upon two scraps that used to be the extra length of the sides. I decided to use one of them for the tail wedge, and did this:


Thoughts?

Tony

Actually, in my list of things to try, that was something I'd considered. I like it.

deadedith wrote:Actually, in my list of things to try, that was something I'd considered. I like it.

I'm glad! That was the dry fit. It will look better once it is glued in and scraped flush.

Tony,
First the binding. I think either the honduran or the cuban will look really nice, better contrast then the bloodwood will be, but not as light as maple will be, so go with one of those.
Second, I like the endwedge, if you can line up the colored grain. If you can't match them up, it may give a detracting look. Just a thought, but I really like the idea of just continuing the limba.....I think the burl would be too much of a difference.
I love that limba wood. Nice job on the binding channels...they look so clean!!

Kevin

The lines match as good as I can get them. I'm going to use the curly hog on the walnut guitar. Thanks for the feedback.
Unfortunately, the lines will not match up perfectly, but I have seen this type of tail wedge done before with and without matching grain lines. I am confident it will look good once everything is scraped down. The picture I posted was only my first dry fit of the parts. There was significantly more sanding done after that pic was taken to get everything as good as I could and I am pretty happy with how it looks. Once I get the binding on and scraped, I will post more pics.