I have been working on the binding installation work. Major portions are done. This guitar still need to be installed the beveled armrest portion and the cut-a-way portion. Brazilian RW binding material made this guitar really gorgeous. Next week, I will complete the binding installation work for the body. Then, the body is pretty much complete.
I have been working on the purfling installation. I completed binding channel and purfling channel cut. Those are very detailed work. After using a laminate trimmer, I clean-up the those channels using chisels, small knifes, and tiny sanding blocks. After made those channels clean enough, purfling materials were installed. Top side is the Black-white-black purfling. Side and back are black-white purfling. Next week, I will install Brazilian rose wood binding materials.
Last week-end I did not upload the neck work. So, this post will show many progresses. Now, I moved to detailed work for the neck and the body. I did neck head outline cut and peg hole drilling. Waverly high geared ratio (23:1) tuner will be installed. This is a new model from the Waverly brand. The gear ratio has been 18:1. Finally, Waverly introduced 23:1 version, and it makes much easier tuning work. Fret slots were cut for the 650mm scale on a west African Ebony material. Sound hole section has not been profiled at this moment, and I did a rough cut for the detailed final shaping.
This week, I did the neck blanks making. I did rough cut for the neck using the band-saw. Then, I made V-joint between neck head and the neck. Then, I did an other band-saw cut for the neck head portion to make total 14.5mm final head thickness. At this moment, the neck head should be 11mm thickness. I also sanded neck head veneers. This time, front and back veneers are Brazilian RW. Those Brazilian RW veneers are left-over from the side material re-sawing.
