In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I rout out the binding ledge for curly maple binding strips using a binding tower system, and I talk about the importance of minding grain direction among other things.
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Making a Simple End Graft for Guitar #56
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I create and install a decorative end seam inlay for guitar #56
Flattening the Sides to Prep for Binding on Guitar #57
Cutting square binding channels really comes down to good binding prep, that is, making the sides meticulously flat and square prior to commiting your guitar to the router. In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I provide some tips for flattening the sides effectively as I prepare guitar #57 for binding.
Making the End Wedge on Guitar #57
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I create and inlay a decorative endwedge to cover the end seam out of Tiger Myrtle burl and flamed Maple binding strips.
Q&A – Bridge Weight, Headstock Angles, and Carbon Fiber
Prepping Lumber for Guitar Neck Blanks
In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I fashion a bundle of guitar neck blanks from billets of Honduran Mahogany using the jointer, table saw and planar to make them perfectly flat, square and consistent.
Q&A – Side Slat Layout, Spanish Cedar Necks, and Bending Mahogany
Q&A – X-bracing, Taptuning, and Lattice Bracing
Q&A – Buffing Tru Oil, the 14th fret hump, and the best woods for side bending
Restoring an Old Craftsman Jointer
A friend gifts me a rusty old jointer! In this episode of DIY Guitar Making, I remove the rust, level the the infeed and outfeed tables, level the fence, set the infeed table coplanar to the outfeed table, and clean the cutterhead.