In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I’ve attached a thin maple strip to the edge of my ebony binding strips and now I’m cutting the binding channels, and addressing the miters between the florentine cutaway tip and the end seam.
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Attaching Side Purfling to Binding Strips for Guitar #56
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I show how I use specialty joining boards to glue purfling strips to the edge of binding strips in order to create side purfling.
Prepping a Ziricote Fretboard for Guitar #56
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I resaw, dimension and slot a fretboard out of a waste piece of Ziricote for Guitar #56
Making a Rosette for Ramon’s Classical Guitar
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, Ramon visits the shop to work on a cool radial rosette design with black limba, burl, and fiber strips. We’re using the Radial Rosette Maker Jig available here: https://ericschaeferguitars.com/the-radial-rosette-maker-kit/
Milling and Slotting a Zebrawood Fretboard for Guitar #57
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making: I’m using Zebrawood for the fingerboard on Guitar #57. I dimension out a rough fretboard blank, cut the fret slots and shape the board.
Q&A – Pickguards, Rosettes, and $20k Guitars
Binding Guitar #57 with Flamed Maple
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I install wood bindings on a florentine cutaway guitar.
Reflections – On the Golden Mean and Somogyi’s Bermuda Triangle
Florentine Cutaway Tip Binding on Guitar #57
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I cut a channel with a gramil and a chisel and bind the tip of the florentine style cutaway with flamed maple strips on guitar #57
Making a Purfling and Binding Thicknessing Jig
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I build a simple jig for cleaning up and planing binding and purfling strips down to their intended dimensions, using scrap wood, an old handplane blade, a threaded rod, and a dowel.