Finished my brother's parlor guitar!

johnnparchem · Post by **johnnparchem** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:40 pm

Ebony bindings and zipflex purflings. Looks sort of rough now but it all looks like it will clean up.

Ken Hundley · Post by **Ken Hundley** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:55 pm

Looking good! Love the color of the top!

Tony_in_NYC · Post by **Tony_in_NYC** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:38 pm

johnnparchem wrote:Ebony bindings and zipflex purflings. Looks sort of rough now but it all looks like it will clean up.

I like it!

johnnparchem · Post by **johnnparchem** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 1:49 pm

Mostly playing and testing jigs. I made my first practice head stock for the parlor. I never made a slotted head stock before, having used mostly premade necks on my classical guitars. I am a little off on my practice head stock, but I know where I went wrong. All in all it if it was a real neck it would be close enough.

Darryl Young · Post by **Darryl Young** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:07 pm

Looking great John! So 1 tonebar and 2 finger braces. Don't some 0 sized bodies have 1 finger brace? I wonder what changes tone-wise using 1 vs 2 finger braces or tone bars?

johnnparchem · Post by **johnnparchem** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:17 pm

Darryl Young wrote:Looking great John! So 1 tonebar and 2 finger braces. Don't some 0 sized bodies have 1 finger brace? I wonder what changes tone-wise using 1 vs 2 finger braces or tone bars?

Thanks,

I might find out my first parlor has 1 tone bar and 1 brace. The guitar sound good when I tap.

David L · Post by **David L** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 6:13 pm

Cool headstock John!

David L

johnnparchem · Post by **johnnparchem** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 1:17 pm

I survived the scariest operation for me, Routing the tenon and the mortise. I used a Simpson style neck jig. I first made a practice neck and body to test the whole mess out. I found it scary putting the big router with a ½ inch end mill to my body. I used about 5 passes so I only took a little off at a time. All and all it came out OK with the neck angle where I want it.

I will do more next weekend. I am going to use the block with the practice mortise to make a drilling jig for the neck. I will transfer the the hole pattern to the body with some hole centers once the neck is drilled.

David L · Post by **David L** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 1:29 pm

Wow John, you're doing it all. What's next? Harvesting trees and milling lumber out of them, forging steel and making truss rods. I'm not ready to build necks yet. You're cruising right along.

David L

johnnparchem · Post by **johnnparchem** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:22 pm

David L wrote:Wow John, you're doing it all. What's next? Harvesting trees and milling lumber out of them, forging steel and making truss rods. I'm not ready to build necks yet. You're cruising right along.

David L

Well I do have a friend in Raymond Wa, near timber country on the lookout for the right stump. He is a horticulturist, so he knows the species to look for and what I am looking. :)

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