I’ve just begun work on a new 12-fret auditorium in American sycamore (from Callaway County, Missouri) and red (Adirondack) spruce. This guitar will feature laminated sides, an adjustable neck joint (adjustable from the inside of the guitar) and that wonderful snappy sound that sycamore provides. The aesthetic will be pure classic on this one: clean and simple rosette, binding, a slotted headstock, an African blackwood fingerboard and bridge and a warm brown finish.
The laminated sides are glued together in a vacuum bag.
Once the sides are laminated, they fit the form perfectly and show no springback.
The tail block is fitted to the inside of the rim.
This neck block allows adjustment of the neck’s angle.
I’ve started using solid linings (basswood in this case). Two layers are bent to shape then glued in place.
The American sycamore back shows off its quarter sawn flecking.
The back braces are radiused then glued in place in the go-bar deck.
These are the component parts of the rosette all bent into rings to be inlaid in the top.
