Hiya, folks. It's been a while since I've posted anything new. I've had a few guitars making gradual progress on the bench over the past year or so, but this new model - I call it the Alma - is an idea that came to me just a couple months ago and took over. It was mostly completed on April 29th, in time for the NW Handmade Musical Instrument Show at Marylhurst, but wasn't strung and set up until last weekend, for the Oregon Guitar Expo.
The shape is what you might call a non-cutaway off-set, and I decided to try my first Fender-ish stepped-down headstock. Actually, the shape is something that I've been playing with for ten years or so, which has been scaled from a uke to 3/4 size and even OM-ish outlines. I used the template for the 3/4 size guitar, and it's petite: 17-1/2" length, 13" lower bout, 7-1/2" waist, 9-1/2" upper bout. This prototype is super thin, at only 1-1/8".
The new MDF template had some minor tweaks to the curvature of the bouts, but is pretty much the same.

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The wood for the body was a long piece of walnut scrap that I got at a salvage yard. It was probably 4 feet long, 8 inches at the widest, and almost 3 inches thick. With some clever slip-matching and book-matching I was able to make a 4-piece blank.

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It got a deep, stepped bevel on the bass side.
-Ruining perfectly good wood, one day at a time.