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

Stacking the neck heel

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

Carpathian Spruce sound board 'book matched' pieces joined together

Black Walnut sound hole inlay ring

Inlay binding ring fit and glued in sound board

Cutting the grooves for the sound hole rosette

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

Nearly finished

Sound hole rosette with Abalone and special Black Walnut inlays

Sides are thinned to .085" and marked for cutting

Both sides in the building form

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

Bending bindings in the same manner as for the sides

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

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

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

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

Side reinforcement strips

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

Back strip cut for back braces

Braces glued to back

Carving back braces

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

Cutting area for end graft

Gluing back to sides

Back on, sound board is next

Bracing the sound board

Shaping and sanding X braces

Sound board ready for attachment to sides

Glued to sides

Cutting binding channels for the back & sides

Binding channels for the top and sides

Gluing bindings and purfling

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

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

Initial fitting of neck

Sanding fret board to 16" radius

Cutting fret board to size

positioning fret board on neck

Rough shaping of neck

Slot head cut and inlay completed