Posted in : "2020 - July"

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  Installing Binding with Side Purfling on Guitar No. 56

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  I’ve attached a thin maple strip to the edge of my ebony binding strips and now I’m cutting the binding channels, and addressing the miters between the florentine cutaway tip and the end seam.

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  Attaching Side Purfling to Binding Strips for Guitar No. 56

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  I show how I use specialty joining boards to glue purfling strips to the edge of binding strips in order to create side purfling.

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  Prepping a Ziricote Fretboard for Guitar No. 57

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  I resaw, dimension and slot a fretboard out of a waste piece of Ziricote for Guitar #56

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  Making a Rosette for Ramon’s Classical Guitar

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  Ramon visits the shop to work on a cool radial rosette design with black limba, burl, and fiber strips. We’re using the Radial Rosette Maker Jig available here: https://www.ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/

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  Milling and Slotting a Zebrawood Fretboard for Guitar No. 57

  Posted in: Design, Instrument Building, All, The Wood Data Source

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  I’m using Zebrawood for the fingerboard on Guitar #57. I dimension out a rough fretboard blank, cut the fret slots and shape the board.

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  Q&A – Pickguards, Rosettes, and $20k Guitars

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  Q&A – Pickguards, Rosettes, and $20k Guitars

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  Binding Guitar No. 57 with Flamed Maple

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  I install wood bindings on a florentine cutaway guitar.

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  Florentine Cutaway Tip Binding on Guitar No. 57

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  I cut a channel with a gramil and a chisel and bind the tip of the florentine style cutaway with flamed maple strips on guitar #57

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  Making a Purfling and Binding Thicknessing Jig

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  I build a simple jig for cleaning up and planing binding and purfling strips down to their intended dimensions, using scrap wood, an old handplane blade, a threaded rod, and a dowel.

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  Cutting the Binding Channels on Guitar No. 57

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  I rout out the binding ledge for curly maple binding strips using a binding tower system, and I talk about the importance of minding grain direction among other things.

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  Making a Simple End Graft for Guitar No. 56

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  I create and install a decorative end seam inlay for guitar #56

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  Flattening the Sides to Prep for Binding on Guitar No. 57

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  Cutting square binding channels really comes down to good binding prep, that is, making the sides meticulously flat and square prior to commiting your guitar to the router. I provide some tips for flattening the sides effectively as I prepare...

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