Acoustic Guitar Construction

Hi, just found this forum and thought I'd post a couple of pics. I've been building for about 18 months and have completed 13 so far. If only someone had warned me about the addictive nature of this game!


Tassie TIger Myrtle Back & Sides
Bunya Pine top
Mulga wood fretboard and bridge




Tassie Blackheart Sassafras Back & Sides
Bunya Pine top
Mulga wood fretboard and bridge




Blackwood Back & Sides
King Billy Pine top
Mulga wood fretboard and bridge

Well Martin,

That are some really nice looking guitars. Congrats. But 13 in 18 months? That's no addiction, it sounds more like a disease :-).
Is Lowden your middle name?
Thanks for posting.

Herman

13 in a year and a half, that disgusts me.


Good thing they look like half arsed rush jobs. . . .

oh. . . . .


no wait. . . .


throw me a bone here, they sound rubbish right?

13 in how long, the guitars look great. A really good photographer as well?

I forget british sarcasm doesn't work so well in type. They look great, really striking woods.

and I thought I was being slow!

I do have some OCD admittedly and only sleep about 4 hrs a night so that probably helps. My paying job still demands full-time attention though.
For those interested in sounds, this is one of my builds being played by a friend, Mike McCarthy. Excuse my singing, it was for testing purposes only!

Guitar sounds better when listening through headphones as opposed to laptop speakers.

https://soundcloud.com/martintaylor/closer-to-thee

johnparchem wrote: A really good photographer as well?

Just my iphone in my loungeroom. I have a white wall and a white long coffee table that I use and then just remove the unwanted background in photoshop. No extra lights, just room lighting and ambient daylight coming in through the windows.

Happy to show some before and after shots if interested