Littleman Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 (edited) 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. PHOTO This is the body before we stained it. PHOTO After stain. We stained it red, it's not that dark in person. Red for the blood of Christ theme. PHOTO Black Limba back. PHOTO 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 Edited October 25, 2008 by Littleman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reantel Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 I like it. The head stock looks really clean...well done. And the Crown of Thorns inlay is awesome. Look great. Can't wait to see some more pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ae3 Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 That's an awesome rossette, I don't blame your friend for wanting to buy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer7440 Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 Dang you guys are kickin out some awesome guitars! I love that rosette. I was curious about the funky little notch carved in your back braces. Is it just for looks? I was looking at the pics in your photobucket album and it looks like maybe you could stand to improve the dust collection on your router table! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmth Builder Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f196/Sor...ckpurf-0402.jpg lmao, its like something out a cartoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikbojerik Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 LOVE the rosette - very well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Buttman Posted October 25, 2008 Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 very nice work, especially headstock - clean work and simple but very interesting shape. Waiting for update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littleman Posted October 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 Dang you guys are kickin out some awesome guitars! I love that rosette. I was curious about the funky little notch carved in your back braces. Is it just for looks? I was looking at the pics in your photobucket album and it looks like maybe you could stand to improve the dust collection on your router table! LOL Thanks, the 'funky' notches in the bracing are there as a result of artistic freedom. They are just there for looks, I don't believe it will change the sound any... the only difference structurally would be it is slightly more rigid than if it were just carved down. I love the looks of them notched out. I agree, the dust is pretty bad... but it doesn't really hinder our working since after each route we just vacuum it up. I'm not going to get a large dust collection system until we move to a larger shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littleman Posted October 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2008 I like it. The head stock looks really clean...well done. And the Crown of Thorns inlay is awesome. Look great. Can't wait to see some more pictures. Thanks, I spent a ton of time on that rosette. I've looked around and there is nothing else like it out there. The closest thing is the ugly "crown of thorns" carbon acoustic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reantel Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Are you going to have cross inlays as fret markers on the fretboard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littleman Posted October 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Are you going to have cross inlays as fret markers on the fretboard? I am going to ask the customer what he would like on it today. We will probably just do dots down one side of it and a cross on the 12th fret like we did on Daniel's acoustic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 I would definitely only do a cross at the 12th fret. The question is, how do you want to orient it? Upright relative to the guitar, or upright relative to the audience? Beautiful work by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfman Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 wow man that is some killer inlay work around the soundhole!!!!!!!! what was the difficulty level in buildin an acoustic compaired to an electric. is the acoustic done now? is this your fisrt one? sorry for all the Q's i just really like your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer7440 Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Chris, do you and Daniel have a thickness sander? If so what model did you go with...if not how are you thicknessing your acoustic wood? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foggy Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 That is really beautiful work, never ceases to amaze me the craftsmanship that goes into building an instrument like this. If there was a channel on the telly just showing guitars like this one being built I'd never need the remote again! Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Chris, do you and Daniel have a thickness sander? If so what model did you go with...if not how are you thicknessing your acoustic wood? There is a local cabinet maker nearby that owns a very big $8000+ model that he lets us use to thickness all our wood. He also has an enormous bandsaw and very nice planer. So basically when we need to mill the wood to specs we just go over to his shop for the day and do everything over there that we don't have the tools for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer7440 Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Very nice arrangement! Will his sander go down to the proper thickness or do you have to use some kind of a carriage board? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sorbera Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 We tape it to a nice and flat 3/4" sheet of ply and run it through with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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