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Gluing Braces
I have the back braces split out, profiled, weighed, deflected, matched and surfaced and am gluing them onto the back in my lattice pattern:
Here is a peak of the unvoiced back through the sound hole: Mark
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Top Braces
I have the top in the go-bar. I'm deck gluing down the last round of braces:
The height of these braces will be trimmed down in the voicing process. You'll notice I work with rather thin braces. Here is a close up of my X brace for this guitar: You'll notice I use a sash joint at this intersection rather than a big clunky, heavy, sound deadening lap joint. This is a lot more work to do with a lot of miters but the result is a joint that is not a big clunky, heavy, sound deadening lap joint. It is harder to see all but of my tone braces are hand split to assure they are absolutely quartersawn and have no run out. This optimizes stiffness so I can cut away more sound deadening weight when voicing the guitar and it also reduces the chance of splitting. You can see my brace profile has a foot where it is glued to the top. This lowers vibrational impedance between the tone brace and the soundboard. It also provides a wider gluing surface, reduces stress points at the joint edges and reduces the brace positions from showing through the top of the sound board. You also can't see that I prepare the braces' glue surface by scraping it right before glue up. This improves adhesion and make the joint more permanent. You also don't see things like my top brace pattern and all that goes into that. I just wanted to make a point that it's easy to take pictures of a pretty guitar but I spend the majority of my time doing things that you don't see and are done for my main goals of making the guitar sound great, play great and last a lifetime. Thank for following along! Mark
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Hi Mark,
I love how the cabochon integrates all the colors, even with an almost green shell like hue there… ..and after what you previously said about scraping vs planning, I hope the side bending goes well. Fingers crossed! |
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Thanks monodoslug!
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Bending Sides
With the set up work done on the top and back it's time to bend the sides:
I made this side bender over twenty years ago and it has served me well. We're going with the full body on this guitar. Thanks for viewing! Mark
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Amazing artistry, from wood selection, “wood working” and throughout. So very beautiful seeing it all come together!
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Joining the Sides
The guitars sides are joined when the heel and end blocks are glued on:
From there I clean up the sides by preparing them to accept the radiused top and back, glue in the side braces and attach the kerfing: Thanks for following this build! Mark
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Closing up the Body
I am closing up the body now and that starts with the back:
More to come! Mark
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Really pretty, Mark. Reminiscent of your “Bacon Padauk”.
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The Plum wood is a little heavier than Padauk and also has a good tap tone.
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Really interesting. I do some fine woodworking as a hobby and have some smaller pieces of plum that I’ve used for knife handles etc. the heartwood can sometimes range from brown, to purple to pink. And I don’t mean pink’ish. PINK!!!
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The wood is a pleasure to work with and bends nicely. It also is pretty scorch resistant which is something to be careful of with lighter colored woods. One thing to watch out for is it is a lot like Maple in that it will stain easily from contact with the metal slats on a bender. Mark
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