Completed Parlor Guitar for my brother.
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:06 pm
This guitar has taken me awhile to complete looking back on the build blog I started in April. ( viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1197)
This is a more modern Martin O sized guitar based on the templates from Waldrons Instruments Inc. This guitar is my second completely from scratch guitar but it is the first guitar built in my shop at home. This is also the first slotted neck that I made.
As mentioned in the other thread the wood is Sinker Redwood for the top and quilted spanish cedar for the backs and sides. I bought all of the wood for this guitar (top, back, sides neck, rossette and head plate veneer from RC Tonewoods and Sons. The guitar was build in a John Hall mold and bent in one of his bending machine. I used Ken's bridge setting tool to mark and set the bridge. I have Martin M-540 Phosphor Bronze Light guitar strings.
I promised I would post a video so that you can hear the guitar. I am such an awfull guitar player I hesitated posting at all. I even considered recording my friend as he played the guitar. But for your listening pleasure I put down a few short bits of music so that you can hear the guitar a bit.
One of these links should work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyywhNKO ... er&list=UL
http://youtu.be/lyywhNKOuOk
These pictures are not the best but the color is actually close to the real thing.
First a family picture with all of my acoustic guitars that I have made. This is my first guitar leaving home.
This is a more modern Martin O sized guitar based on the templates from Waldrons Instruments Inc. This guitar is my second completely from scratch guitar but it is the first guitar built in my shop at home. This is also the first slotted neck that I made.
As mentioned in the other thread the wood is Sinker Redwood for the top and quilted spanish cedar for the backs and sides. I bought all of the wood for this guitar (top, back, sides neck, rossette and head plate veneer from RC Tonewoods and Sons. The guitar was build in a John Hall mold and bent in one of his bending machine. I used Ken's bridge setting tool to mark and set the bridge. I have Martin M-540 Phosphor Bronze Light guitar strings.
I promised I would post a video so that you can hear the guitar. I am such an awfull guitar player I hesitated posting at all. I even considered recording my friend as he played the guitar. But for your listening pleasure I put down a few short bits of music so that you can hear the guitar a bit.
One of these links should work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyywhNKO ... er&list=UL
http://youtu.be/lyywhNKOuOk
These pictures are not the best but the color is actually close to the real thing.
First a family picture with all of my acoustic guitars that I have made. This is my first guitar leaving home.