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Finally getting some time back to guitar building after a busy summer/fall, and completing a major resto/repair job.

So I pick up a box I closed last spring. Walnut dread, redwood top, body based on a Martin 12 fret. Hmm, what did I brace this for? 12 fret, or 14 ? Long or short scale?

I'm not sure. But measuring where the bridge plate is, to get the pin holes to fall where they should, this might be a 13 frets to body, 25.4" scale length.

Good thing I build for myself.

I've generally been able to finish up a guitar in a 'building season', but this one has hung around a while waiting it's turn, and somewhere between initial conception and now, things have drifted off course.

This top is one I voiced while taking Robbie O'Brien's top voicing class, so I'm eager to hear it strung up.

Oh yes, time can erase things in one’s mind. Good luck deducing your design. Interesting dilemma, but it could lead to a sonic innovation!
I first encountered this while pulling and rebuilding car engines. Things like “I don’t need to label that wire” cost me hours, hooking things up 3 months later. I now write down everything and take tons of pictures. And even then, I still miss stuff.

I actually been keeping detailed notes in log books. Habits from my research days. I find it fun to do and, especially being new to this, find it REALLY helpful to go back and see how I’d done things and what I was thinking. I take lots of pictures, too.

John Reid wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:45 pm I actually been keeping detailed notes in log books. Habits from my research days. I find it fun to do and, especially being new to this, find it REALLY helpful to go back and see how I’d done things and what I was thinking. I take lots of pictures, too.

Oh, I keep a logbook of my builds.

It's not near as detailed as I thought, though. :-)

Time to improve that aspect.