Instrument details: Richard Waddell - Steel string acoustic

Joining the Australian Blackwood back

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A scraper plane is used to remove toothed plane marks

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Installing the outer lines of the rosette

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The finished rosette with olive wood ring

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Scalloping the back braces

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Richard installs a piece of olive wood in the headstock matching the rosette. This will initially be covered by the veneer and partially revealed later on

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Chiselling the rebate where the cutaway meets the neck

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Gluing the fingerboard

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Richard's beautiful figured Australian Blackwood back

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The finished guitar

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Richard's headstock showing the olive wood fitted earlier and now exposed

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The matching olive wood rosette

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