Building pictures
Here are some pictures of the building of various guitars :
OM Mahogany
Blue archtop 17
Flattop Koa
Archtop 15"
17" Archtop
Kozmic Blues
Metropolis
Archtop 17
Archtop 18
Archtop 16
Fedora
Koa OM
L-00 Sunburst
Madagascar OM
Sunburst archtop
00 Koa
Making a guitar step by step
March 01, 2005Making a weissenborn - Part 1
May 01, 2005Making a weissenborn - Part 2
July 01, 2005Making a weissenborn - Part 3
Making the bindings.
Sanding and finishing.
Making the bridge.
Gluing the fingerboard and the bridge.
Final set-up.
December 16, 2006Making an archtop guitar - Part 1
December 19, 2006Making an archtop guitar - Part 2
December 19, 2006Making an archtop guitar - Part 3
The tools of the shop
July 02, 2005Neck to body attachment using mortise and tenon
Here are some details about the jig I use to make the tenon on the neck and the mortise on the body of a guitar.
September 05, 2005The thickness sander
Some tips about guitarmaking
March 15, 2006Gluing the fingerboard
October 06, 2005Making the curved braces - OLD METHOD
June 05, 2006Gluing a purfling to a binding
On guitar tops and backs, it is very common to see purflings beside the binding. The side of the guitar sometimes have this kind of purfling too ( see the picture on the right ). Unlike top and back purflings, this side purfling needs to be glued to the binding before bending and gluing this binding. Here is a little tip to do this.
October 11, 2006Drawing the tuners holes
February 19, 2008Pearl inlay
March 20, 2008Sanding the bottom of a binding
The waste of side plates can be used to make bindings. But when they are cut with a bandsaw, the bottom of these bindings need to be sanded clean. Here is a simple way to do that.
March 20, 2008Checking neck alignment
August 13, 2008Making the curved braces - NEW METHOD
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