This weekend I spent some more time on the Dreadnought Guitar project. In the last post, I had assembled the sides, created the inside mold for the guitar body and installed the kerfed linings. This weekend it was time to profile the kerfed linings to match the eventual contour of the guitar top and back. [...]
Continue reading about Dreadnought Guitar: Sanding the kerfed linings and installing the rosette
The first step in building the Dreadnought Guitar was to start assembling the body. This involved the two sides of the guitar, the tail block, the neck block and the kerfed linings that run around both the top and bottom edges of the sides and serve as a gluing surface later. Assembling the sides The [...]
Continue reading about Dreadnought Guitar: Assembling the sides and kerfed linings
I get a lot of questions via e-mail on things I’ve posted about here. I usually just reply to the e-mail directly but, I thought that it might be instructional to post some of these questions and my responses because there may be others out there with similar questions who could benefit from the dialog. [...]
Continue reading about Q & A: Mortising jig and loose tenons
With the bulk of the construction on the table complete, it was time to move on to the detailing tasks and finish work. I spent a considerable amount of time scraping and sanding all of the parts of the table. There were areas on the legs where the knees transition into the posts that needed [...]
Continue reading about Queen Anne Side Table: Contemplating the finish
With the carcase of the table completed in the last post, it was finally time to build and dovetail the drawer. This is kind of a long post but, I thought everyone would rather see the entire process at once rather that breaking it into multiple posts. So, here we go! The design for this [...]
Continue reading about Queen Anne Side Table: Dovetailing the drawer
