My story

I have always loved music and a few years ago I took it to the next level by starting to play guitar.
As I have learned to play the guitar, I’ve found it to be my favorite instrument. As such, I have decided to make a guitar this winter as my senior project. This blog will be following my attempt.
I will post the steps I take, post photos and make comments regarding the process... And hopefully, I'll post about the finished guitar!"

Thanks for reading!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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
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