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Carl Dickinson wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:51 pm Looking real good, Eric. Such nice detailing. I like the local wood idea too and have made a couple from wood off my property here, White Oak, Ponderosa Pine and Manzanita.

Thank you, Carl. What have you made with the Manzanita?

-Eric

Great job! I really like Black Walnut for the back and sides for the dreadnoughts I have built. Affordable, locally sourced and attractive. Thanks, Mike! The walnut in this guitar was indeed locally sourced. It came from a Wisconsin Black Walnut tree. I intend to use as much reclaimed and found woo...

Jim McConkey wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:17 pm Lovely! Congratulations!

Thank you, Jim!

-Eric

Karl Wicklund wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:26 pm I also like that significant round-over on the binding. Beautiful work.

Thank you, Karl. That thick binding was more work but I really like the results. I will probably do that again on future builds.

-Eric

That looks great! Traditional looking yet with a few interesting features, like the sideport, the bigger binding, the headstock, really nice. Beautiful top also. Thank you, Jarno. I've had that top wood for about 40 years. The board is big enough to make 8 or 9 guitars. It sounds good to my ears to...

Darrel Friesen wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:09 pm That's a great looking guitar Eric. A couple more and you'll be carrying the torch!

Thank you, Darrel. That is a very nice thing to say. I'm going to keep building until I can't. I wish I had started when I was a lot younger but life had other plans.

-Eric

Looks great, Eric. I like the nice large radius on the binding. Should be comfortable to hold. Thank you, Barry. It is very comfortable. To achieve that radius I ended up using two layers of the Katalox binding. One thick layer wouldn't bend without cracking. That made gluing it on a bit of a chall...

As always, I love any and all feedback. The learning process is a long one, eh?

-Eric

Hello, Folks. Here is my third guitar. It's definitely better than 1 and 2 so I think I might be making progress. This was the first guitar I've played with a side port and I like it. All of my future guitars will have one. Here are the specs: - Sitka Spruce top - Black Walnut back and sides - Black...

I'm getting the impression that it might not matter which one I use. I have more of the tighter grained cedar and I'll start there when I get to the batch. I have one piece of the wider grain that's only big enough for a ukulele and I might start making those at some point.

-Eric

Carl Dickinson wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:00 pm Use both. Two instruments at a time. I usually do more than one.

Thanks! I got enough of these boards to make 9 instruments. I have so much wood for tops now I don't think I'll ever use it up. After the two I'm working on now, which are Sitka, the next three are redwood or Douglas-Fir.

-Eric

Hello, I recently was given some cedar siding boards. They are very straight grained and quarter-sawn. As you can seen in this photo, one has very tight grain and the other is much wider. They both ring very nicely when tapped. Surfaced they are 6" in width, good enough for a 3-piece guitar or ...

Barry Daniels wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:49 am I bought a bunch of 1/4” Baltic Birch plywood and built the clamps up in layers so I wouldn’t have to cut the mortises. It worked out well.

That's a good idea, I'll do that when I need more.

-Eric

I've built cam clamps out of maple, cherry, walnut, birch, and baltic birch plywood. The only ones that split had something wrong with the design, not the wood. And I think I only had one or two split.

-Eric

Eric, I'm curious as to how much downweight you have on the router jig. I can't tell if you have the cable on a crank or a counterweight. I bought a jig that looks to be pretty good (patterned after the Stew Mac design, more or less) but as it is, the entire weight of the router (Bosch Colt) would ...

Here's what I've come up with. I used a modified tool to gouge a narrow channel where the maple veneer should be. I will get some black epoxy or CA glue and fill the channel. This guitar is still a learning instrument so making a new neck is not necessary. Here's what the channel looks like now. nec...

Another rookie mistake. When I was gluing this laminated neck together I put a piece of maple veneer in the middle. It appears to have slipped when clamping and now that I'm shaping the neck it is not big enough to appear. The neck is almost to the final thickness in the photo and all you can see is...

Thanks, everyone. I was overthinking and was wondering if some fancy system was needed. My third guitar is still just a learning experience and adding a label is one of the new things I'm doing. I don't know when I'll make one that feels like I've graduated.

-Eric

Bob Gramann wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 7:42 pm I use 24 lb copy paper (with an ink jet printed label) and fish glue.

Thanks, Bob. I have that kind of paper on hand so I'll just use it.

-Eric