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Spring has sprung and I've found myself spending most of my free time outside wandering the woods and shooting my Longbow, so the guitar build has been suffering lately. Things will probably go a little slowly for a while.
Been reading up a little on bracing and heard several people say that the x-brace on the guitar top (shown in these two pictures) should have a nice tight joint otherwise there may be some buzzing to the guitar when it is played. So I will be filling in the gaps from my sloppy work with scrap wood and thin vaneers to get a nice tight fit. After that I will glue on a cloth patch (gun cleaning patch saturated in wood glue) to re-inforce the joint.
Second picture shows the first shim glued in place. It still needs to be shaped and sanded some.
A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
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Been slacking lately. Between work, daily hikes, building arrows, and shooting my longbow have just not put in the time on the guitar. Work bench is getting to be cluttered again with arrow building stuff too. Going to clean that mess up tonight and get some work done this week on the guitar.
I guess I need someone on the board to come over and kick me in the backside and get me started on this project again.
A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
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Been a hectic Summer so far, I knew work on the Guitar would slow down a bit as summer came, but the Guitar build has come to a screeching halt. I WILL be working a little on the Guitar this weekend, between other projects. Bad Achilles has me down an out form my normal routine so going to get some work done. Still will be a slow process though.
Need to fill in those gaps in the X-braces yet and hopefully get the top in place this weekend, or at least fitted and ready to glue next week?
A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
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Yeah Bucky, as Monty Python says: "Get on with it" 
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I know, I know. I find it hard to sit indoors come spring and summer so the indoor projects suffer. Will probably be slow going for a while, but hope to get some work done hear and there.
A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
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It's a hobby, Buck. No need to rush. Eventually it'll be done and it would be an even bigger satisfaction to play it.
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I agree with Marcel here.
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Well, believe it or not, I got some work done on the guitar this evening. Added some additional thin strips of wood to fill in the gaps I left in the x-bracing. Next guitar I biuld with have the x-braces done differently so there are no gaps where the braces meet.
First picture shows the thin strips of vaneer I superglued into place. I shaped them flush with an sharp hobby knife.
Next picture shows a cotton gun cleaning patch I glued into place to re-inforce the x-brace joint. Not sure this was needed, but probably won't hurt. I cleaned it up a bit after I took this picture.
Next up is to fine tune the back fit and glue it in place. Hope to have this done over the weekend, but have a lot of plans so hopefully I can fit it in.
A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
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Stay tuned, weather is terrible today so instead of my evening hike I'm going to try to get the back glued into place tonight and if weather permits trim the soundboard and bottom of the guitar flush with the sides over the weekend after the glue hardens. I'd do this indoors, but it makes a huge mess and is a bit noisy.
A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
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Back is now glued and clamped into place. It took a little squeezing in on one of the sides but it is good to go. Going to let the glue dry for a good day and a half and will unclamp sometime on Sunday. Then get the trim router out and flush it up to the sides.
Going to work on building my new Longbow I will be taking to Colorado to hunt Elk while this dries up.
A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
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Updates to Guitar Build 08/08/2009
Couldn't wait until morning
Removed the clamps holding the back on while glue dried tonight and heard no popping sounds and everything appears to be holding together. Starting to really look like a Guitar now. If the rain and stormy weather we have been hainvg all day today moves off I hope to get outside and trim the edges tomorrow and will post some pictures of the progress tomorrow evening.
A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
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Back is on, clamps removed, and top and bottom have been routed flush with the sides. A little bit of sanding to even things out now and get the body ready for routing the channels for the edge trim. Kit came with plastic black edging, which does not look good IMHO so I'm going to make things harder for myself and bend some curly Maple or Koa instead. Probably be a week or so before the next update as I need to order some wood, and build a cheap wood bending tool out of a 200W solering iron and copper tubing.
Here are pics of the top and bottom after trimming. For kicks I taped the unuseable fingerboard to the neck and slide it into place to see what it will look like. Lots of work to do before that can be glued into place.
A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
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Wow buck, it really looks like a guitar. I see the neck protrudes quite a bit over the hole. Is that the way it's supposed to be?
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Looks great!
I imagine the fretboard just needs trimming.
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Looks Sweet 
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