It’s been quiet here lately. I did manage to squeeze in two sessions over the last month, but never got round to posting any updates.
Here’s the top as I left it at the last session:
Bracing in progress
What we have here is a top with only the X-brace missing. I only did a little bit of extra work on further shaping the braces that can be seen above.
The next step was to glue on the X-brace. Now remember, we radiussed the X-brace slightly to put a bit of a radius into the top. Using four cam clamps and four small clamps on the edges, I glued everything together.
Glueing the X-brace
While the top was nicely clamped up, I had some time to spend on the neck. This guitar, as I mentioned before, uses a so-called Spanish heel for the neck-to-body construction. It’s more common on classical guitars, but it’s what Willis uses in his book, and also what Jan uses on his guitars. For a nice overview of making a neck, take a look at Robbert O’Briens youtube video here. I also mentions the use of the stacked heel, which is what I’m doing
On the band saw I took three blocks of nice mahogany of a blank and glued them together as a sandwich onto the neck I’ve been working on:
Neck block sandwich
And that’s where I left it…
Next time I’m finishing the top bracing (finally!!) and hope to make a start on carving the heel out of the neck block. Then we’re getting close to bending the sides, which should be interesting to learn.
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