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Lots of progress on my D28, No major screw ups
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:23 pm
by johnnparchem
I made a lot of progress this weekend and today. I glued in the end wedge. I glued the top and back. Then I managed to get the top and back trimmed and the binding and purfling channels routed top and back.
Re: Lots of progress on my D28, No major screw ups
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:27 pm
by johnnparchem
A few more photos
Re: Lots of progress on my D28, No major screw ups
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:31 pm
by deadedith
Lookin' real good! What woods are you using?
Dave B
Re: Lots of progress on my D28, No major screw ups
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:48 pm
by johnnparchem
The backs and sides are brazilian rosewood, I think the top is engleman spruce, The binding and end wedge are curly maple. I am using harringbone purfling for the top.
Re: Lots of progress on my D28, No major screw ups
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:17 pm
by Kevin Sjostrand
John,
You are doing nice work. The maple binding with the brazilian is a looker.
Keep us posted once you have the binding installed.
Kevin
Re: Lots of progress on my D28, No major screw ups
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:38 am
by johnnparchem
Thanks,
Here are the pictures, I glued in the bindings and the purflings, I went at then a bit with a block plane and my cabinet scrapers.
Re: Lots of progress on my D28, No major screw ups
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:06 pm
by Ken C
Looking really good there, John.
Ken
Re: Lots of progress on my D28, No major screw ups
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:31 pm
by johnnparchem
Once I get my bridge set I am ready to start the final sanding schedule and french polishing. I know FP it is not as duable as a lacquer, but I am nice to the guitars and it is easily repaired. I still have a bit to go setting the neck but I wanted to wait until the gutar was finished to drop the last 16th or so. The angle is good and it is close to centered.
Re: Lots of progress on my D28, No major screw ups
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:30 pm
by Kevin Sjostrand
Looking really clean John. The maple with the brazilian is sweet.
Kevin
Re: Backwards progress on my D28.
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:18 pm
by johnnparchem
I have everything I need to finish my D28 but while sanding the sides I thined some of the bindings way too far. I suspect my channel was not square to the sides thus I ended up with a paper thin binding in a couple of places. So I pulled out the router a routed the bindings and purflings off of the guitar.
It went OK with no real issues. This time I put earplugs in, a good mask and eye protections, and got in close while routing the channels. I visually made sure that the router was running square. Also this time I made sure the binding fit really close so that I just needed to take a little (easy scrape) off the sides of the body keeping the full depth of the bindings.
I had enough curly maple and purfling strips to re-bind the bottom. I had to reorder the maple binding for the top. So maybe another week or so.