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Again with the new face! A new top for my personal guitar. It is not a Bernabe
Rescue the Rose
With the top off, I can rescue the rosette. I could make a new one, but I like re-using if possible.
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- ‘s a nice rosette, in good condition.
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- Inside braces. Need to go.
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- Willy Nilly desctruction.
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- Inside braces planed off.
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- spruce and rose
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- I found the cut-out from when I made the top… yes I keep them for years. I use the circle cuttor to go around the rosette.
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- It’s been cut from the top. Next the inside.
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- Nearly rescued. Just needs to be cleaned up and inlaid in to a new face… er, top.
FACE OFF!
I made this guitar for myself about 3 years ago. The date is 3 weeks into the survival of my heart attack. I have made guitars that I would not mind having, but since my first guitar in 1970, I haven’t dedicated one to myself.
This one was inspired by a couple of Paulino Bernabe guitars that haunted me.
Anyway, luthing can be humbling at times. When I glued the bridge on this guitar, the top actually cracked. First time for everything. I repaired the crack and played it (it was great) but it developed something that annoyed me, and I decided to give it a fresh start.
First, the top must be removed….
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- Just having some fun…
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- a chisel in the belly….
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- Rout it out.
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- Break the harmonic bars…
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- sort of a guitar within a guitar
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- Bernabe style bracing. Notice the ‘broken’ bar on the right (bass) side of the soundboard. The X bracing.
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- Dedicated to ….. ME!
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- The main thing is to get if off cleanly. Pieces are OK.
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- The binding is gone. now to remove the remnants of the purfling…
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- The face is off, now clean and almost ready for a transplant.
Coming soon… a rescue!
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Closing the box.
Working on Nacio’s 8.
In this gallery, closing up the box.
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- For Nacio
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- tape is for location purposes
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- inside
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- everything lines up
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- The back gets glued
January 2013 Guitar Playmate
The guitar of the month for January 2013
The guitar is currently available to purchase.
– Type: classical guitar built by Ganz
– Date of construction: 2012 December label
– Scale length (mm): 640
– Top: Euro Spruce
– Back / Sides: Macassar Ebony with curly maple
– Fingerboard / (bridge): ebony/rosewoodhttp://ganzguitars.com/wp/?p=826
– Sound: Clean, bright
– Condition: New
– Price: seems to have sold….but I can make another!!!!
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Rosette Madness Strikes.
OK. I do roses one at a time. There are similarities, and I do duplicates, but I don’t just churn them out. There is something like inspiration that I need. This one is for a very exciting player, Nacio, who has a six stringer I built…
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- Igor (limps in): Doctor, the patient is ready to receive the new brain….
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- It’s such a fine brain … Wuahaahaaaa
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- (rain falls, lightning flickers, then thunder….)
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- The surround is the strong part… orgainization is required.
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- channels for the surrounds
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- Needs a soundhole
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- window sash weights
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- inlaid but needs to be clamped flat until the glue is dry
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- Facial surgery about to happen
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- I think I’ll call it Nacio 8
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- Filling small gaps
Pieces of Nacio’s Eight
An 8 string neck requires more material and thought. It’s been about 8 years since I’ve done and 8 string. I’ve been constructing the pieces…
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- Here’s the neck.
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- The shape of the head
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- The head with the tuning machines
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- Yet another view.
Easy neck profile
Making a neck profile is theoretically easy but in practice, it’s hard!
Using foam core poster board, it is pretty easy in practice!
I hope these are clear.
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- Foam core piece before a rough cutout.
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- Rough cut- out.
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- Sand paper. Rough grit ok, but keep pieces of grit away from your guitar.
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- Start to sand….
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- With the sand paper wrapped around the neck, the foam core board sands super quick. Note that I’m keeping the lower edge flat in line with the fingerboard (+ fret)
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- Test fit around the 5th fret
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- The profile will fit further up the neck. It will be slightly deeper because of the fret height.
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