I originally started this acoustic to be my personal guitar, but a friend of mine saw it and decided to buy it... I gave in.
He wants it ready before Christmas, so Daniel(Sorbera) & I decided to finish it up together since it's now a business guitar. I was working on it by myself because it was just going to be mine... I'll just have to start a different guitar for me.
The crown of thorns(shown below) was an inlay I chose because I was trying to do a theme of "The Blood of Christ". We strayed away from a lot of stuff I was going to do to the guitar when we sold it, but quite a bit of it is along those lines as you'll see.
Here are a few photos of the build up 'till now:
Details of the back bracing.
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This is the body before we stained it.
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After stain. We stained it red, it's not that dark in person. Red for the blood of Christ theme.
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Black Limba back.
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Top Bracing.
Crown of Thorns inlay. I used Black Limba for the inlay material. Each thorn was a separate inlay.
This is what I worked on today, we got the neck done enough so I could do the purfling & inlay. I'll be working on all the inlay next week.
That purfling took a while to do, but it's well worth it! It was the first time we have ever put purfling on the headstock. I think we'll do this to all our acoustics from now on. Let me know what you think about the guitar so far!
Here are all the photos of it on our photobucket: PHOTOBUCKET
-Chris