Side bender patterned after the ubiquitous Fox Bender. |
Joining the book matched back plates |
Joined back plates. |
Joined top plates |
Cutaway assembly molds. |
Arching the sides. |
Attaching the lining. |
Sides bent and lined. |
Sides bent and lined. |
Sides in assembly mold. |
Routing the rosette channel. |
Completed rosette channel. |
Inlayed rosette. |
Cutting the soundhole. |
Rounding the soundhole edges. |
Routing the back strip channel. |
Inlayed back strip |
Tap tuning plates setup. |
Spruce billets for making braces |
Gluing the back center graft in a go-bar deck. |
Gluing back braces in a go-bar deck. |
Gluing the top braces in a go-bar deck. |
Carving the top braces. |
Finished braced top. |
Another finished braced top. |
Braced top and back. |
Roping jig. |
Gluing the top to the sides |
Top attached to sides |
Top attached to sides. |
Enclosed body. |
Routing the binding ledge. |
Completed binding ledge. |
Cutting the heel graft inlay channel. |
Completed heel graft inlay. |
Laminating binding and purfling |
Installing purfling and binding. |
Completed heel graft with side binding. |
Completed body - back view. |
Neck profile jig. |
Initial neck profile. |
Routing the truss rod channel. |
Truss rod in the neck channel. |
Truss rod in the neck channel. |
Gluing the truss rod spline. |
Installed truss rod spline. |
Hand chiseling the neck. |
Final shaped neck. |
Slotting the fingerboard. |
Fingerboard taper jig. |
Leveling the fingerboard. |
Radiusing the fingerboard. |
Radiused fingerboard. |
Bound fingerboard. |
Gluing the fingerboard to the neck. |
Installing side position markers. |
Installed side position markers. |
Fretting the fingerboard. |
Fretting the fingerboard. |
Fretted fingerboard. |
Shaping the headstock veneer. |
Shaped headstock veneer |
Attaching the binding/purfling to the headstock crown. |
Bound headstock veneer. |
Cutting inlay for headstock logo. |
Inlayed headstock veneer. |
Attaching the veneer to the headstock. |
Radiused and leveled fingerboard. |
Neck side profiling jig. |
Side profiled neck. |
Testing the neck angle and fit |
Bodies ready for spraying. |
Necks ready for spraying. |
Bodies after first spray session. |
Necks after first spray session. |
Shaping the bridge. |
Shaped bridge. |
Cutting the bridge wings. |
Drilling the bridge pin holes. |
Shaping the bridge belly. |
Completed bridges. |
Pickguard template. |
Faceted pickguard. |
Sanded/buffed pickguard. |
Completed pickguard. |