In the Workshop
- Fitting the tailgraft
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- In the picture to the right, there is a recess between the purfling lines for the tailgraft. Here, that space gets filled with a piece of Brazilian rosewood. Once hand-shaped, it gets installed with glue and tapped in …
- In-the-wood vs. polished
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- The same area after French polishing with shellac. I love seeing it get all glossy and rich-looking!
- Neck reinforcement
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- The neck is sometimes reinforced for greater stiffness. The two stringers of ebony are glued in with epoxy.
- Attaching the fingerboard
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- The fingerboard gets glued on using a long, rubber-lined caul. The whole assembly usually stays clamped up overnight.
- Final detailing
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- One of final steps in the woodworking phase is cleaning up and detailing the heel area. When everything flows gracefully and crisply it's almost time to start polishing (gasp!)
