I finished my guitar just in time for my Graduation! sadly the intonation was off so I couldn't really play it.
But, Sunday I took it to a local luthier who helped me figure out what was off. As it turns out the bridge was off, my fault as I measured in the wrong spot, and my nut could be filed better. So, he helped take the bridge off so i could reglue it in the right spot at home. Also he let me use his files and I got my nut prefect!
Last night I glued my bridge on the right spot, glued my nut back in and since moving the bridge back left a little bit of the previous holes showing I made a covering out of a piece of oak. I'll post pictures as soon as It's all put back together hopefully tomorrow!

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Finished all the Shellacking on my guitar! Ready to put it all together! Let it harden for a few days, not as much as recommended but I only have a 6 days to finish now. Need to put the bridge on, file the string slots on the nut. The peg hole tuners need to be put in, and then put stings on!
Then comes the real test, does it sound good? That is what I am worried about.

Well, the reason why I haven't posted in a while isn't because I haven't done anything. I've just been working so much on it!
I got the body sanded down, on the mahogany back and sides I put pore filler and had to sand that down. I set up a spray booth, and I started coating my guitar! Took me a week to get it all done but now my guitar has 12 coats of satin finish and again has to sit for a week before I can continue work on it... which means I have three days to finish it before my graduation... more like 2 and a half.
I'd better get everything prepared!

Neck joint work.

Right now, I am working on getting the neck set perfectly to the body of the guitar. Hard to get it just right, and still a lot of wood to chisel away.

On another note, I got to have a great experience talking in a local school about my build. It was at a career day for 7th and 8th graders. My youth paster, who talked me into this, opened up our 'closing act' talking about young business owners. I then talked about my build. It was a little weird, but fun none the less.

All about the neck

Done a lot on the neck this week. I put the overlay on the head stock.

was pretty easy just glued it on clamped and then used the flush cut router to cut it.... flush lol.

 Traced out the neck onto the fretboard and it looks good

 clamped it on after cutting and sanding to make sure everything lines up.

Fit good, also I cut out a headstock design  and cut it out and drilled out my peg holes although they are just a tad to small

Side inlays very easy

Shot of both the side and top inlays

 cut out all the frets

practice on scrap and it went good

 and glued it all together!!!

Finished the Binding, started the neck!

Binding is all done!
This has to be one of the easiest parts of building the guitar so far. Just need to wait a few days before I can scrape it level with the guitar.

 I had already put the truss rod in awhile ago so here is a shot of that.
And then I put the Rosewood overlay on the headstock.

Here are some photos of doing the bindings, rather simple really

 









Taping                                        

                                 Now taking it off

Sorry for the weird angles but forgot to change before I uploaded.

 All done with the front! a few spots didn't stick, so re glued and taped

side view and back view
looking good!

Routing the Binding and end trim

Hey! So, it's been awhile since I posted but I have been doing work.
I just routed the bindings a few days ago and it really turned out great! I was worried about doing it looking at jigs but ended up doing it free hand and it worked very well.











So, I got that done but before I can add the bindings I need to do the end trim...
Now I wanted to do something different, that had my own touch so here was my idea





Looked good so started getting the wood out.



Got it all carved out and ready to glue.




Now just need to wait 24 hours... lol gotta get it done :)

Side braces and glueing the back.

Hey all!
So I got my top glued and then it was time to put the braces on the back... This was a little bit troublesome for me.
The main braces went on fine, but when I was putting the center braces on I caused a 5inch split in the back. It was right along the seam, and with some info from the people at KitGuitarsForum.com I was able to fix that. Not as nice as I would like, but I didn't see until after the glued dried.

So then I had to put the braces on the sides of the guitar, here are what they look like
As you can see I also filed for the back braces.


Then it was on to glueing the back.. Rather easy although I had to make a tool for it... My sides were not at 20in for the back so I made a tool that held the top and kept the sides at 20ins.
Thats this tool. The only thing wrong with it is I had to reck it to get it off after gluing, I had tried it before and it came off nice but once the sides were ridged it would not come off.

And here is how it looked gluing. I'll try to get some photos of it now

Gluing the top

Today has been filled with good news :) But, here is the news on my guitar.

I've be working on notching the slots for the braces on the sides of my guitar, finally got that done this afternoon.

Then all evening I've been working on gluing the top. First I did a dry run, just to make sure I knew how it would all work. Then I marked all of my spindle-clamps, Think that's what I was calling them lol, the way I put them on so I would know when actually gluing. I took them off in order so they would all be ready to go when I needed them.. The rest was pretty simple just applied the glue spread it out, put the top on and put all 30 spindle-clamps on.

here is what it looks like now