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FAMILY OF GUITARS
I am building a GL-00 size guitar for Andrew. His father-in-law, Don, bought a GL-00 from me last year and Don's Son, Colin, bought a GL-00 from me several years ago. It is very satisfying for me, to make the same size guitar for these three family members. I consider my GL-00 size guitar to be one of the best sounding and playable smaller body guitars available.
Andrews' guitar will have Australian Blackwood sides & back and a Carpathian Spruce sound board. Bindings will be East Indian Rosewood. Bridge, fret board and slot head peg board will be ebony. I will be using some Black Walnut from Andrews', Gandfathers' farm for special inlays and sound hole binding inlay.

The neck is Spanish Cedar and will be made for slot head tuners. Peg head splice below

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Stacking the neck heel

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Neck glue up complete. This will be worked later when the body is ready to be mated with the neck

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Carpathian Spruce sound board 'book matched' pieces joined together

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Black Walnut sound hole inlay ring

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Inlay binding ring fit and glued in sound board

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Cutting the grooves for the sound hole rosette

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Inlaying B/W/B (Black/White/Black) purfling and Blue Pau Abalone in middle ring

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Nearly finished

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Sound hole rosette with Abalone and special Black Walnut inlays

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Sides are thinned to .085" and marked for cutting

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Both sides in the building form

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Two sets of bindings and side purfling prepared for bending. The dark bindings of East Indian Rosewood will go on this guitar

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Bending bindings in the same manner as for the sides

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Bindings and purfling ready to be removed from the bender. They will be stored in a binding form until needed for the build

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Back joined with EIR back strip and white purfling. White purfling will extend around the back inside bindings

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Kerf lining installed on side edges to provide area for top and back attachment

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Top and back are sanded with concave radius board to match back (15') and top (30') dome.

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Side reinforcement strips

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Back center reinforcing strip glued to back using a 15' radius dish

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Back strip cut for back braces

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Braces glued to back

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Carving back braces

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Back braces carved and sanded. Back ready to be mated to the sides

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Cutting area for end graft

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Gluing back to sides

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Back on, sound board is next

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Bracing the sound board

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Shaping and sanding X braces

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Sound board ready for attachment to sides

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Glued to sides

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Cutting binding channels for the back & sides

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Binding channels for the top and sides

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Gluing bindings and purfling

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Sound board with bindings, purfling and abalone. Pick guard shape and location 

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Pick guard with b/w/b purfling to match sound hole purfling

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Initial fitting of neck

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Sanding fret board to 16" radius

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Cutting fret board to size

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positioning fret board on neck

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Rough shaping of neck

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Slot head cut and inlay completed

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