Instrument details: Ieuan Bell - Steel string acoustic

Installing the purfling lines that make up the rosette

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Carving the braces. Ieuan is building two almost identical instruments, just with different fronts, back and sides.

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More brace carving

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The padauk sides freshly bent and looking lovely in the sunlight!

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Joining the sides to the front with tentellones

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Trial fitting the bog oak fingerboard

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Gluing the fingerboard

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Ieuan has also opted for bog oak for the bridge

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A small 'mini' bevel improves comfort without reducing the front's vibrating area

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French polishing the padauk back and sides

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Ieuan with his finished spruce and padauk guitar...

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,,, and with his cedar and mahogany guitar

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