maple

I’ve recently started a new build, an adirondack and sugar maple 12-fret grand concert guitar that will be clean and contemporary-looking, with a sound port and paddle headstock featuring really sharp-looking Gotoh “X-finish” tuners. Notably, this guitar will be my first production guitar to use double sides and solid lining, which I’m pretty excited about. The goals for this guitar’s sound are a focused bass with good carrying power and trebles that are thick, musical and committed.

Linings being glued to a guitar rim. — Two layers of linings are pre-bent, then applied one layer at a time.

A completed rib assembly for a small body guitar in curly sugar maple. — The completed rim assembly: each side is made of two sugar maple slats lined with two layers of basswood.

I pre-bend the wood strips I'll use in the rosette. These pieces are maple and hormigo. — I pre-bend the wood strips I’ll use in the rosette. These pieces are maple and hormigo.

Fitting the rosette rings together in the routed groove.

Success! The rosette strips are all cut to length and dry-fitted together.

The rings are all glued up together and then planed and scraped flush with the surface of the sound board.

See the next installment of this guitar’s build gallery.

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Grand Concert No. 22 Build Gallery, Part One