Tools!

Before I can actually start building my guitar, I need to have some tools, one of them looked rather easy to make, so I got to work on them.

This tool is a spool-clamp, it is used to clamp the top and back of the guitar to the rim when gluing.

Well I started out with a piece of plywood, and a drill. I had to drill sixty of these little spools. Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures of this, but this is what the wood looked like after drilling five of them out. After this I had to sand them down a bit, as they had some rough edges, there is my stack of sixty after getting them all cut out and sanded.

Now I had to drill larger holes in the center because the ones there were not big enough. Here I used a special drill bit to make in indentation in the wood so I wouldn’t miss drill the hole. Then used a regular drill bit and drilled out a larger hole. Since the drilling caused the wood to have some rough edges again I had to do a little bit of re-sanding.

I then applied glue to the spools to adhere a metal washer, this was so the screw wouldn’t notch the wood. Once this dried I could put two of the spools onto the screw attach a wing-nut and I had my spool-clamp.

I also put a piece of rubber tubing on the bolt so it also wont scratch the wood.

Here are the finished pieces!