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Twin-necked electric ukelele |
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Many of the cavities are more easily routed before the body blank is cut to shape. |
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The body shape is then cut out. |
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The neck blanks are prepared by blocking up the heels and scarfing the headstocks. |
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A veneer is then glued onto the face of the headstock. |
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The headstock is cut out before final shaping. |
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The shoulders of the tenon join are fine tuned to fit the body. |
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The neck alignment must be carefully checked while fitting the tenon join. |
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The necks have been fitted and the fingerboards are glued on. |
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Hammering in the frets. |
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The lacquer is sanded between coats. |
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With the lacquer on the instrument is reassembled. |
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Sebastian's headstock. |
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Time to play... |
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Hawaiian style acoustic guitar |
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Ben has joined and thicknessed the front and back and is here cutting the front to shape. |
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The first ring of decoration is glued in. Care must be taken that all parts are seated fully. |
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The bracing layout is planned and the braces prepared, centred around the common x-brace. |
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The braces are then glued to the front. |
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Gluing on the bridge. |
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Here Ben is cutting the headstock shape out of the head block. |
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The sides are bent on a hot iron. |
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The body is ready for the back to be glued on. |
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Here Ben is scraping the bindings flush with the sides. |
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Final sanding prior to finishing. |
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The back of Ben's guitar. |
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A close-up of the bridge. |
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Ben playing his guitar. |
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Semi-acoustic guitar |
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Alexandre has joined and cut out his imbuia back and is finishing off the thicknessing with a scraper. |
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The soundholes are then cut out. |
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The edges are then fine tuned using files and a small ground down scraper. |
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Meanwhile the back gets braced. |
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The soundholes have been reinforced and the braces are glued. |
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The truss rod is glued in. |
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The sides are bent and checked against the template. |
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The front, neck and sides are assembled, with the linings and back next to be fitted. |
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After trial stringing the frets are stoned level. |
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The guitar is finished and Alex is trying it out. |
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Now to get ready for the final photos.... |
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Alex's headstock showing the brass inlay and purfling. |
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Another view. |
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Steel string guitar |
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Barry's soundhole decoration starts with fitting the outer rings. |
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Sections of maple and ziricote are then fitted in the space between the rings. |
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Barry has fitted leaves of mother of pearl and paua shell and is now cutting out the soundhole. |
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The back is first to be braced. |
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Gluing the bridge. |
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The neck is blocked up to give the heel and headstock angle. |
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Bending the sides. |
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The inner purfling line is glued in, before paua shell is fitted around the perimeter. |
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The frets have been stoned and are recrowned using a special file. |
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Final sanding. |
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After finishing the guitar is reassembled. |
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The back of Barry's guitar. |
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Barry with his finished guitar. |
