Instrument details: Archie Bielby - Steel string acoustic

Transferring the drawn shape to plywood for the template

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Joining the padauk back, ensuring there is no light whatsoever before gluing

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Gluing the back

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Padauk shavings from surfacing the back

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Thicknessing the Lutz spruce front, first to a measurement and then refining further using tapping and flexing

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Starting the rosette channel

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Fitting the rosette

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Working on the end graft

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Final sanding ready for finishing

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Starting the oil finish

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Installing the pickup, in this case a Headway FEQ, to the finished guitar

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Archie test runs his finished guitar

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Archie's finished guitar

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