Instrument details: Jamie Spain - Steel string acoustic

Each guitar starts with the design

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Scraping the flamed mape back

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Thicknessing the Port Orford Cedar top

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Cutting the soundhole

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Gluing the x-braces - final shaping is done after fitting

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Laminating the neck with an ebony centre strip

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Bending the sides

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Routing for the corner binding

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Gluing the fingerboard, which is located with small dowels

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Fitting a mother of pearl headstock inlay

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Applying French polish

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Jamie with his finished guitar

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Jamie's guitar showng the flamed maple back and sides with ebony centre strip

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