Usually, I do not design pieces with very contemporary styling. However, when I was asked to design and build a table for my brother-in-laws vacation home, I knew that I would need to change course a bit from the more traditional. My brother-in-law and his wife’s tastes lean a bit more toward the contemporary side. [...]
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I don’t consider myself an accomplished turner…yet. Though, I’m working on it! I like to turn and the relative instant gratification that turning projects can offer. I had not turned anything in a while but, recently I spied a small off-cut of Walnut in the shop that was left over from the sofa table project. [...]
After I had routed the channels for the binding and purfling, the next step was to mortise the location for the end trim at the tail stock of the guitar. Because this end trim piece fits in between the bindings that go around the perimeter of the top and back it must be installed first. [...]
Continue reading about Dreadnought Guitar: Installing the binding and purfling
After getting the body together, the next step in the process was to trim the overhanging material from the back and top to be flush with the top and then to rout the channels for the binding and purfling. The binding will be placed along the seams of both the back and top where they [...]
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In the last post, I wrote about attaching the top to the sides. After completing that it was time to finally get the body completed and closed up. In order to do this I first had to repeat the process of fitting the back to the sides and notching the kerfed linings to receive the [...]
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