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SwedishLuthier

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  1. One evening a couple of years ago my daughter asked me if I could build her a guitar. I suggested that she instead should pick one of all guitar in the house. However she explained that as she have quite short fingers she found most guitar pretty hard to play. So I contemplated a bit on the topic and then put a Capo on a guitar to test out were she was comfortable to play. It turned out that at the third fret she could reach around and fret chords in a much more comfortable way. So based on that I drew up a smaller guitar, with a smaller body. It turned out it can be considered an Alto Guitar, having a 21" scale. Its a scaled down version of my current EvenStar Acoustic based on some ideas from the Kasha/Scheider guitars. The back and sides are Bloodwood, the top Sitka spruce, the neck is flamed maple and the fretboard, sound hole ring and bridge is also made from bloodwood However when I presented the plans for her I got inspired by John's (Avengers63's) Father/daughter build and told her that I wasn't the one to build the guitar. She had to do it herself. To my surprise she actually agreed under the conditions that I should supervise the build and operate all dangerous machines (band saw etc). So we started this over two years ago. I forgot to snap pics on most of the process but some pictures exist and I would like to share them with you. No pics of the sides being bent. I have a fox style bender with heating blankets and a LMI heat controller. I build with a quite heavy neck block that extend over the top/back pretty much like a spinach heal does. However I screw the necks on, more about that later. This is were we had the sides bent, the neck block contoured and the kerfed lining installed. The body was sanded against dishes clad with stick-it abrasive. The top being cut out and the young luthier refusing to be on cam... The luthier sanding top bracings to an arch, using a beam clamped to the top of a radiused dish to ensure they are perpendicular to the surface The top bracing system kan be seen here, in rough shape, still not glued to the top. The top being glued to the sides And the luthier still refuses to be on cam... I must mention that she was 16 when we started this build. She has now turned 18, soon to be 19. Time really fly...
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