Upcoming Dreadnaught

Here's a glimpse of a guitar I hope to have done this fall, it's going to be a slope-shoulder dreadnaught shape.  12 frets to the body, with sitka and sapele.  I was tempted to build a copy of a really sweet Kalamazoo 00 shape guitar I've been working on, but I didn't really feel like making a new mold and templates right now.  So, here is the beginning of instrument number 6.

Because my thickness sander is still in the "pre-existent phase," I'm taking these ribs down to proper thickness with hand planes and a scraper.

I spent most of Memorial day with my bending iron.  The kerfed linings for this instrument are maple, so they needed a good dose of heat to get to shape too.

Resetting a 1969 Martin D-28 neck

This was an instrument that came into the Acoustic Corner.  It was in great shape for its age, the only big issue was that the neck was pulling away from the body.  That is really not typical for an old Martin.  Sure enough...once the neck was steamed out (which really didn't take much steam!) it was obvious the instrument had been repaired before...poorly.  Both parts of the joint had been left ill-fitting, and lots of small shims were used to paste it back together.

After truing up the head block, I've added full-length shims of mahogany to rebuild the joint. 

After hours of refitting the joint, and a glue up, one of the last Brazilian rosewood guitars Martin made is back in action.

Maple

Here's Maple, now one year old.  She likes to laze around the shop, and remind me every 30 minutes that she's bored.