Instrument details: James wilde - Steel string acoustic

Routing out the rosette channel by hand

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Once fitted, the rosette is planed flush to the front

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Gluing the strengthening strip to the inside of the walnut back

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Carving the back braces

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Walnut is generally nice to bend but care must be taken with figured pieces to maintain an even curve

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Gluing the linings

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Finishing the binding channel which extends under the fingerboard

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Installing the frets

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Levelling the lacquer finish prior to final polishing

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The final stringing

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The finished instrument showing the lovely 'silking' fron the ray cells in the torrefied Sitka spruce soundboard

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The figured walnut back

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Jim with his finished guitar

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