Luthiers and guitar fixers. What’s on your bench?

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Old Music Guy said:
I LOVE IT! The "snake" F-holes are a great touch, as are the inlays. The binding is also gorgeous.
I gotta ask though. With the "V" bracing how are you gonna get a pickup in there? Or do you have another plan?
Gorgeous piece of work.
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They will fit as soon as I cut a notch in the side of the brace that will allow the tabs on the bottom for the pickup to pass through.
 
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Sorry, I don't know what "GOPs" are. Looks like it's routed for P90 Dog Ears.
Your 335 looks like a mid 70s?
Also, I have an Epi that looks just like yours, an AJ 100. Relatively new.
Nice pieces of work. One of these days I'll get back to my bench and finish the 2 projects have have going.
Funny how life gets in the way.
 
Old Music Guy said:
Sorry, I don't know what "GOPs" are. Looks like it's routed for P90 Dog Ears.
Your 335 looks like a mid 70s?
Also, I have an Epi that looks just like yours, an AJ 100. Relatively new.
Nice pieces of work. One of these days I'll get back to my bench and finish the 2 projects have have going.
Funny how life gets in the way.
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GOP’s was a weird reinterpretation of the word ‘for’ caused by my fat fingers and dumb predictive text.

The 335 is a 1965 year model. It’s the first year with a trapeze tailpiece.

The Texan is a 1964 with a ceramic saddle which makes it the ultimate Beatle sounding acoustic.
 
That's exactly it.
I made myself a setup for that a little while ago for a project I was working on.
 

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Old Music Guy said:
I'm digging your posts immensely!
The vertical slats that are under tension, are they to hold the bracing in place as the bracing glue dries?
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The table with the roof is called a ‘Go-Bar’ deck and the sticks are called ‘Go-Bar Sticks’. The table is flat and the sticks hold the bracing down while the glue dries. These sticks allow you to glue in a bunch of bracing at once. This method also lets me flatten out a warped top.

The Go-Bar deck is essential for the work we do.
 
I remember looking that up to buy one when I first considered making a guitar and finding StewMac selling a setup for something stupid like a grand.
That sent me straight over to the scrap timber pile. :ROFLMAO:

The only thing more satisfying that making something is making the tools to make something.
 
Steenamaroo said:
I remember looking that up to buy one when I first considered making a guitar and finding StewMac selling a setup for something stupid like a grand.
That sent me straight over to the scrap timber pile. :ROFLMAO:

The only thing more satisfying that making something is making the tools to make something.
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You can but their table and then pay the tune of several hundred dollars to get enough sticks…..or make one. I use redwood for the sticks and one 2x6x8’ board will make enough sticks to last a couple of years.
 
Lovely stuff.
Mine was just a one-job affair so not ideal scale or materials and, as you can see, I had to use little shims here and there to get things right,
but the job got done and that's the main thing.

I had the same experience with spool clamps. How much??...Where are my hole cutters? :LOL:
 
Nice work! I'm not a luthier or a guitar fixer... but I have found myself with a few "parts" that I hope to one day fix up and put together for my own "signature" guitar. ;) I'd found an unfinished neck for like $20-30 that I had planned on testing out my own "custom inlay" on... and a year or two later found an unfinished body on Reverb that matched for like $60 shipped... though it's a "someday" project. I've also got an old Classical Nylon Guitar that my neighbor had put out on the curb with a broken headstock (snapped off at the tuning pegs) that I had planned on fixing... but I'm not sure exactly how (or what to use) to glue it back on.
 
I'm not either but that's the way to do it ^.
Learn on things you don't mind wrecking.

I did the same learning to neck reset - I think I mentioned it recently.
I bought an FG-180 in really bad shape for very cheap. If I'd made a mess of it, well, nothing was really lost.
Thankfully, though, I didn't!

Feel free to start up a thread for your projects in DIY section, if you want,
even if you're not sure where you plan to start. (y)
 
Steenamaroo said:
Lovely stuff.
Mine was just a one-job affair so not ideal scale or materials and, as you can see, I had to use little shims here and there to get things right,
but the job got done and that's the main thing.

I had the same experience with spool clamps. How much??...Where are my hole cutters? :LOL:
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Spool clamps are the worst. The first luthier ‘tools’ I made included a batch of spool clamps. I hate them.

Klemsia wooden cam clamps make spool clamps pretty much obsolete.
 
Steenamaroo said:
I'm not either but that's the way to do it ^.
Learn on things you don't mind wrecking.

I did the same learning to neck reset - I think I mentioned it recently.
I bought an FG-180 in really bad shape for very cheap. If I'd made a mess of it, well, nothing was really lost.
Thankfully, though, I didn't!

Feel free to start up a thread for your projects in DIY section, if you want,
even if you're not sure where you plan to start. (y)
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We start our students out working on 3/4 all birch Stella type guitars which we get for under $50.
The dovetail neck joints on these are exactly like a Martin or Gibson. They learn through working through their mistakes without destroying valuable guitars in the process.
 
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