Today we glued the top to the soundboard. Sounds easy, but there was a great deal of preparation and planning to make sure that the 15 minutes of set time for the glue did not over-run into our clamping time. We had to prepare the tail block to the curvature of the guitar. Then re-clamp everything in place, check everything and glue! All went reasonably well with only one emergency call to George.
We then went to lunch, came back, took things apart and we had a guitar!
It does look pretty cool though! That's my t-shirt you are seeing. Got to do the back tomorrow!
The rest of the day was spent reinforcing the inside of the body with thin strips of veneer at key "cracking" points. We also prepared a special lamination for a future extra sound hole.
1 comment:
Great pics Dad! Sounds like you are going to have a great guitar. Looks like a lot of patience is required...
Good posts!
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