The sides.

Okay, so I did take photos, but on a different cameras so they will be up later.
The kit I got has an internal mold that they say to use. I decided I wanted an external mold... And I am probably just making this harder then it needs to be but... I'm building one anyways.
I have one half of the external mold complete and now I just need to do the other side, shouldn't take to long and then I can start gluing the sides together.
As I said I'll have the photos soon with more details. 

Still waiting

Well now I'm just waiting for my guitar to adjust to the temp and humidity of the shop I will be working in... still no new photos, but I should get started soon... lol I need to get started... although I am a little nervous because I don't want to mess it up.

A little late...

I should have posted this two Wednesdays ago, but I guess I was just lazy... lol.
I GOT MY KIT!
It's awesome!
Although I have yet to start work on it, I had to let it adjust to the difference in temp and I'm a little scared to start.
Hopefully I will post a photo of everything tomorrow.

P.S. that's why I didn't do it right away! (because the camera battery was dead :p )

I decided!

I finally decided on which guitar kit I would get… and we ordered it!! Yea!!

Almost getting to the point where I can start the building process.

I suppose the next logical thing would be to tell you which one I got, Mahogany or rosewood.

I ended up choosing rosewood. It was very hard to decide, I thought mahogany would be nice, but the main factor was that rosewood is a more durable wood.

So, we ordered it on Sunday which hopefully means that it shipped today :)

Guess I’ll have more when I get the box, first thing I’ll have to do is check to make sure everything is there.

A real Luthier

Well last Saturday 9/10/11 I went to a local Luthier Dr. Muiderman.  We got to look around his shop and ask some questions.

It was pretty cool, learned some good stuff. I learned another technique to put the back and top on the guitar so I might not even need all the spool-clamps that I made, haha. Other than that I learned how he does some of his stuff, and saw a ton of tools he made, which made me happy because I can make them : ) lol.

We also talked about the different woods, I’ve got two choices Mahogany and Rosewood.

I still haven’t decided what kind of wood yet so that will be my next post :P

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!

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!