Guitar #7

[fritter63]

Some professional pics of my latest baby - #7 "Lucky".

Hawaiin Koa tonewood,  Sitka Sprice top, Indian rosewood binding, walnut burl veneers on beveled armrest, scoop cutaway, rosette, tail graft, back of headstock.

As usual, a fundraiser/raffle guitar for my sons high school marching band.

Full build thread/pics located here:

http://ahsbandguitar.blogspot.com

 

[Max Fracas]

Really beautiful work.  I'm not a very good guitar player, but I can recognize quality in a guitar.  Hope the fundraiser is successful.

 

[Stone Message]

This is a stunning piece of work and some lucky person will cherish it I am sure.

Keep up the excellent work and please keep showing us the pictures.

Peter

 

[alkaline]

Man, you're an artist. Beautiful work!

[thumbs up]

 

[Billedis]

Awesome work.  Bill

 

[Sparktrician]

That's really a gorgeous job, Mark. 

[smile]

 

[charley1968]

That is so much beyond my level of skill that i probably can't even appreciate it correctly.
Are you using hand-tools for this delicate work?
Best regards and mucho dinero for you fundraiser!
A.

 

[Sean7a]

Great work, and yes, thanks for sharing and please continue to do so.

Guess who also builds guitars and uses Festool?  Been a customer for a lil while now.  My Uncle, who has a few Jimmy D'Aquisto guitars and worked with Jimmy was psyched when he saw her.

http://www.manzer.com/guitars/

Check out those prices.  But the craftsmanship......

 

[fritter63]

Thanks for the kudos all.

Charley , I used both where apropos.

I use a lot of Festools and and also router templates (shaping the headstock). I prefer to power tools just for the time savings (work smart!). But sometimes (brace carving ) only a chisel will suffice.

If you dig through the blog you can see how I do each step.

Eta: hoping to get my own CNC machine built soon for making parts and inlays.

 

[dltflt]

Masterpiece!!! That's all I can say.

 

[AlexThePalex]

Good looking guitar. I've never seen the cut-out under the neck to reach the higher frets been done like that before.

Wish I had the skills to make my own guitars so I could tune them to my own desires. But that's not gonna happen anytime soon. Only know how to play them.

Do you also make the neck and fretboard yourself? Those inlays look very difficult. Do you do that by hand or is there some sort of template/tool for it?

 

[fritter63]

Good looking guitar. I've never seen the cut-out under the neck to reach the higher frets been done like that before.

Wish I had the skills to make my own guitars so I could tune them to my own desires. But that's not gonna happen anytime soon. Only know how to play them.

Do you also make the neck and fretboard yourself? Those inlays look very difficult. Do you do that by hand or is there some sort of template/tool for it?

Ironically , I started building so I could have one guitar in each open tuning....

Turns out it's a lot easier to just retune (and prob cheaper to buy factory guitars!)

I currently have somebody CNC the inlays for me, but hope to do it myself soon.

Also working on getting the neck CNC'ed.