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Building Gallery

1. The beginning
2. Marking out top and back plates
3. Cutting out top
4. Marking out bracing
5. Routing for rosette
6. Fitting rosette
7. Glueing back reinforcement strip
8. Chiseling out recess for braces
9. More chiseling
10. Glueing back bracing
11. Cleaning up excess glue
12. Inspecting back bracing
13. Scalloping back braces
14. More scalloping
15. Checking thickness of scalloped brace
16. Bending a side by with bending iron
17. Side sandwiched between bending blankets
18. Pushing hot side into mold
19. Clamping side into mold
20. Letting sides cool
21. Bent side
22. Fitting sides to mold
23. Using square to mark off side length
24. Cutting side to length
25. Fine tuning side length on belt sander
26. Fitting butt block
27. Fitting neck heel block
28. Glueing in endblocks
29. All clamped up
30. Cutting endwedge
31. Chiselling recess for endwedge
32. Endwedge in completed guitar
33. Clamping in kerfing
34. More kerfing installation
35. Glue cleanup
36. Kerfing installed
37. Inspection time
38. “Shake and baking” sides
39. Checking progress
40. Getting ready to fit back
41. Marking out for brace mortises
42. Cutting brace mortise
43. Chiselling out brace mortise
44. Filing to fit
45. Checking back fit
46. Back glued up
47. Fitting X brace
48. Clamping in X brace
49. Glueing in the rest of the top braces
50. Scalloping tone bar
51. Scalloping ends of X brace
52. Planing brace height
53. Cathedralizing top braces
54. More cathedralizing
55. Shaping fan braces
56. Demonstrating tap tuning
57. Shaping finger braces
58. Tap tuning top
59. Final brace scalloping
60. Finishing up classical top
61. More tap tuning
62. Finished steel string top
64. Preparing sides to receive top
65. Marking out braces positions
66. Cutting mortises fro top bracing
67. Clamping up top
68. Bodies closed up
69. Routing for top binding
70. Routing for back binding
71. Checking binding fit
72. Preparing to glue binding
73. Taping binding in place
74. Binding taped up
75. Neck wood as we receive it
76. Glueing up neck blanks
77. Fitting neck
78. Routing for truss rod
79. Checking neck fit
80. Truss rod installed
81. Shaping edges of fretboard
82. Installing pearl dots
83. Fitting fretboard on neck
84. Time to trim neck
85. Cutting neck to size
86. Cutting ukulele neck
87. Very important – making notes
88. Trueing up fretboard
89. Demonstrating fret installation
90. Fretting
91. Fretting fretboard overhang
92. Checking level of frets
93. Roughcutting neck heel
94. Rasping heel
95. More rasping
96. Final shaping of heel
97. Rasping profile at nut
98. Checking neck profile
99. Measuring neck thickness
100. Spokeshaving neck
101. More spokeshave action
102. Checking neck
103. Necks all done
104. Sanding body
105. Lots of sanding
106. Applying sealer coat to top
107. Applying sealer coat to sides
108. Applying sealer coat to back
109. Sanding sealer coat
110. Lots more sanding between sealer coats
111. Applying gel varnish
112. Bodies drying
113. A brief moment of celebration
114. Neck installation
115. Tuner installaton
116. Glueing on bridges
117. Stringing up
118. Tuning up
119. Lots of tuning as strings stretch
120. Filing nut grooves
121. Adjusting nut
122. A big moment of celebration
123. Some celebrate more quietly
124. Very proud of how his back looks
125. 12 string all done
126. Guitars #1 & #2
127. Graduation photo
128. See more pics on Graduates Gallery
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