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I am building a guitar for a close friend. It will be a model GL-00. A small bodied guitar with a 24.5" scale and 12 frets to the neck/body joint. I am using a curly set of Mango for back and sides and a master grade Engelmann Spruce top. Bindings will be Bloodwood.
Sides marked for cutting and then thinned to 0.085"

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Bending sides at just over 300 degrees.

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Bloodwood bindings and purfling bent and placed in a form until needed.

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Both sides in building form

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Heel and tail blocks glued to sides

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I am using a new brand of kerfed lininig. It is laser cut by Ryan Guitars and is a lot more expensive than my regular lining. It is however, much more flexible and so follows the sides very nicely. In the picture below, the linings have been installed

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Back plate glued with back strip of Bloodwood

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Adding side reinforcement

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Reinforcing strip added and cut for braces. First 2 braces glued

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Braces glued and carving is almost done

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Back ready to mate to sides

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Tail graft taper

Installing the back

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Back mated with sides - now to the soundboard

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Rosette of gold Mother-of-Pearl with abalone inside and outside ring. This has to fit perfectly, there can be no gaps, as any gaps would be very easy to see. So..................

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..... I inlaid the entire rosette in a scrap top (without glue) to get the inside & outside radii correct and the spacing of the channel.

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Then I removed those pieces and inlaid them into the Engelmann top. I think it came out very well and the extra time getting the dimensions right was time well spent.

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Start of bracing for soundboard

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Top braced, carved and signed

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Sound Board glued to sides

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Installing Bloodwood bindings

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Initial rough sanding of sides and bindings

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Rough sanding of tail piece taper

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Adding a center stripe of Bloodwood down the middle of the neck

Starting with a cut down the middle of the neck and adding a piece of 3/8" thick Bloodwood

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Gluing and clamping

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Cutting, smoothing and leveling

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Routing for truss rod

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Initial neck set

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Gluing fret board to neck

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Cutting channel for thin white stripe around peg head

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White plastic strip inlay

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Peg head veneer attached to neck

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Peg head inlays

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Six, six piece flowers to inlay in the fret board

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Flowers plus hammock inlaid

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Pressing frets

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Attaching neck to sound box

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Locate bridge placement and remove finish from under the bridge

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Gluing bridge

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Gotoh tuners with bloodwood buttons

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Fit bone nut blank

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Shape nut and saddle - fit bridge pins - string up - set nut action - set action at 12th fret and install LR Baggs LB-6 pick up

It's done. Finished pictures by Jeanne Giltzow

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