Ken Cook
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I have had a hankering to try my hand at building an acoustic guitar for quite some time now, and came to the realization that I have to start somewhere. Granted this will not be as fine of a build as Alex Reids beautiful build or even close to it, however I'll give 'er the old 'never went to college try'.... Maybe we'll just call this a prototype run .
First a little background...no plans are going to be harmed in this attempt. Shop scraps shall be the majority of materials used, though I have bought some veneer strips and a slice of walnut to hopefully detract from all the errors of my ways . My plan is nothing more than roughly a parlor size 6 string, 14 fret to the upper bout, flying by the seat of my pants, faith in the ol' eyeballs, possibly using any recollections from previous threads, blogs, videos I've laid eyes upon in the past, guitar build.
So, like living with my wife, this too shall be an adventure of the hilarious, hair-raising, head against the wall, heart stomping good time.
forward without further adieu...
planed some cheap pine down to a hair under 1/8", glued & clamped them up...
cut some veneer to size, glued, taped and clamped...
Note: This is my first attempt at this type of work, so please keep the laughter to a low roar
Was not happy with the small middle veneer strip, as the edges did not stay as tight to the pine as I would of liked on this piece which is for the back of the git box... So I improvised and dado-ed a couple of strips of walnut over the veneer joints...I can live with that for this build...
While the planer was out, I also did up a couple of 1/8" pieces of walnut for the sides. I used double-sided tape on a piece of pine to support each piece being fed thru... it was a piece of cake, though I did learn the hard way that 2 strips of tape are more than enough, separating the walnut from the backer board with 4 strips was as tough as explaining to the wife why a new tool now & then is required protocol
Next up was a template and the cutting of what will become the body forms...
A few more shots, in a few....
First a little background...no plans are going to be harmed in this attempt. Shop scraps shall be the majority of materials used, though I have bought some veneer strips and a slice of walnut to hopefully detract from all the errors of my ways . My plan is nothing more than roughly a parlor size 6 string, 14 fret to the upper bout, flying by the seat of my pants, faith in the ol' eyeballs, possibly using any recollections from previous threads, blogs, videos I've laid eyes upon in the past, guitar build.
So, like living with my wife, this too shall be an adventure of the hilarious, hair-raising, head against the wall, heart stomping good time.
forward without further adieu...
planed some cheap pine down to a hair under 1/8", glued & clamped them up...
cut some veneer to size, glued, taped and clamped...
Note: This is my first attempt at this type of work, so please keep the laughter to a low roar
Was not happy with the small middle veneer strip, as the edges did not stay as tight to the pine as I would of liked on this piece which is for the back of the git box... So I improvised and dado-ed a couple of strips of walnut over the veneer joints...I can live with that for this build...
While the planer was out, I also did up a couple of 1/8" pieces of walnut for the sides. I used double-sided tape on a piece of pine to support each piece being fed thru... it was a piece of cake, though I did learn the hard way that 2 strips of tape are more than enough, separating the walnut from the backer board with 4 strips was as tough as explaining to the wife why a new tool now & then is required protocol
Next up was a template and the cutting of what will become the body forms...
A few more shots, in a few....
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