Build #6 Progress

After (another) long break from posting, I've decided this blog needs more attention.  I have a lot of content to put up soon, but for now here's a look at that guitar that got started a while ago.

Since I started this build, I've moved my shop to a new location.  I'm still in Black Mountain, but now live on the east side of town, in a small cabin surrounded by woods and mountains.  I'll post some pictures of the new shop soon.

The part of being a luthier I enjoy most is quite time spent working with hand tools.  The end graft of a guitar is something that can be done very quickly and accurately with a jig, and a router.  I'm not really a snob about using hand tools, and honestly if I had a jig setup for doing end grafts, I would just use it.  Anyway, after a long time of being a shelved project, hand cutting for the end graft was a nice way to get this build back in the works.

It certainly took some time to have crisp straight lines, and a flat bottom, but it was time I enjoyed spending.

And here's the end graft (padouk) glued in.  Soon it will be time to cut for binding, and do some miter joints.