Been working on this for a couple of months now. Building a OOO sized guitar based on a vintage Martin, it has a torrified spruce top with rosewood back and sides, mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard. It's been a challenge, seems half my time spent on this is building jigs.

Head and tail blocks glued on, sides joined. Gluing on the kerfling


Soundboard rosette glued in.


Top bracing glued on and bridge plate set.

I tip my hat to you sir that is some tedious work, have you built one before?

This is the first one. It is tedious!

Built the spool clamps needed to glue the top to the sides

Takes lots of clamps to get things snug and even

Back goes on the same way, the back has a 20ft radius so the sides have to be sanded to match

All glued up and trimmed the top and back, ready to cut the channel in for binding and perfling

Glued the truss rod in and glued on the ebony head plate

Nice color on the back

I didn't get pics of the binding going on, it was a royal pain. Glue everywhere! finally got it in and scraped down.

Working on the fret board now. Fret markers and inlay dots going in. Screwed up the first fretboard and had to start over.

Awesome work sir.

Thanks! It's been a fun build, lots of things to learn. I want to work my up to a complete scratch build.

Man that’s sweet.

All the white stuff is scrapings from the binding. I set them a bit too proud of the wood but didn't want to take another shot at routing the second channel deeper for the perfling that sits inside the binding. So I had lots of scraping to do. The top is sitka spruce but they basically bake it for several hours to mimic an aged wood but this leaves it very brittle and I had a few pieces break out and I didn't want to take another try with the router. The idea is vintage guitars sound better than new ones.

Outstanding!

No way I have the patience for something like that.... I applaud you!

Man no kidding! I'd have lost it just doing the photos Pretty neat project, definitely not your everyday tinkering, looks awesome so far.

Very impressive!

You have some serious skill Hancock, quite impressive.

Very nice. That is going to be beautiful

Very nice. You are a much more patient man than me.

I may still have some of my Stew-Mac guitar making stuff, I know I have gotten rid of most of it, if I run across any I will holler at you.

Post up some pics of your guitars! There’s a special wizbang stewmac tool for about every step

A true craftsman. I envy you.

Well done sir! My nextdoor neighbor is a full time Luthier - does excellent work as well.
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