Rosewood Martin OM Twins- Englemann/Sitka

[Dan Bombliss]

Hey all,

The beginning of last week I started building 2 new acoustic guitars. I actually had gotten a commission for a build from someone that wasn't exactly sure what they wanted. So, I got materials for 2, and I'm building identical OM's from scratch with the difference being the tops, one sitka and one englemann. They'll be able to pick from the sound in person now.

With that said, here are some pictures to track the builds and catch up with progress over the past week.

P.S- One of them is sold, meaning you can always buy the other one ;)

-Dan

[RnB]

Hey Dan, what's the big yellow board for? Trial run for back bracing?

The beginning of last week I started building 2 new acoustic guitars.

Looking good, Dan.
Looking good, Dan.

tommy
tommy

[Dan Bombliss]

The yellow board is kind of like a bracing cheat jig. The end of it lines up with the neck end of the back, the center line keeps your braces centered. And you lay it over the back and use it to notch your back graft, and then you use that to clamp up the braces. It keeps everything square and keeps the braces from tipping or slamming down under the pressure, if the bars are pushing off center a bit.

After about 15 minutes, you unclamp it, and take it off, then reclamp and clean up squeeze up. The template saves alot of time each time clamping up the backs.

-Dan

[David L]

Even your friggin' tooling looks clean, nice looking work Dan

David L

[Dan Bombliss]

Last week was a pretty bad week for getting time with these guitars. Things kept coming up so not a whole lot more progress. I do have the necks cut out very rough, but can't do much with them until the boxes are closed, for getting the proper neck angle on the heel end. I'll be sure to get indepth with the process for pre-setting or roughing in your neck angle with doing necks from scratch.

Anyhow here's a couple updated pictures.







Bench gets real messy when doing 2 at the same time...

-Dan

[RnB]

I'll be sure to get in-depth with the process for pre-setting or roughing in your neck angle with doing necks from scratch.

I can't wait...!

Anyhow here's a couple updated pictures.

So clean looking. Kerfing don't look much like Mahogany or Cedar for that matter...?

[Dan Bombliss]

Basswood. I like the look of basswood against the rosewood.

[Kevin Sjostrand]

Dos are some purty tings!
I like the stark look of the basswood too. Haven't tried it, might.
Beautiful looking so far Dan.

Kevin