Thought you guys might like this parlor guitar I just finished up. I have about 165 hours into it.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/43201/DSCN2069.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1478209386)
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Glenn
Beautiful! Sure wish I could hear it. :)
Very nice. What are the woods used? Muggs
Sweet! I like the headstock. Did you make the neck and headstock and glue up a pre-cut fret board or is it all from scratch?
amazing!
Beautiful! I love parlor guitars!
Quote from: muggs on November 03, 2016, 05:57:55 PM
What are the woods used? Muggs
Sugar Maple -- back, sides and neck
Sitka Spruce -- top and bracing
Bubinga -- red accoutrements
Maccassar Ebony -- fingerboard, black accoutrements
Mahogany (the real stuff from Central America) -- lining, neck and tail block.
Quote from: 5quarter on November 03, 2016, 06:32:22 PM
Did you make the neck and headstock and glue up a pre-cut fret board
Yup, that's how I was taught. I buy fingerboard blanks for 5 string basses so I'll have enough material leftover to resaw into veneer for the headstock and rosette.
I really want to try using quatersawn sugar maple instead of flatsawn for the body, but I have had a hard time finding any.
Glenn
Nice!
Is that a bolt on neck?
Thanks for posting.
Indeed it is a Fender style bolt on neck. I machined the ferrules myself out of 12L14.
It's a perfectly good way to attach the neck to the body, but not traditional for sure. A lot of ways to skin a cat.
Glenn
Simply wow!
beautiful!
I took a picture of a Taylor acoustic while we were at Pacific Rim. I couldn't believe the work inside!
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10317/inside_guitar.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1478287532)
VERY nice...outstanding even....
Gluing on/shaping the bracing, lining and the like is my favorite part.
A picture of gluing on the top:
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/43201/DSCN1718.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1478295211)
Glenn
I like your clamping solutions.
Quote from: Glenn Ohman on November 04, 2016, 09:44:44 AM
Indeed it is a Fender style bolt on neck. I machined the ferrules myself out of 12L14.
It's a perfectly good way to attach the neck to the body, but not traditional for sure. A lot of ways to skin a cat.
Glenn
Thanks, not common for sure.
I did try a Tacoma with a bolt on neck a few week ago, played nice and sounded great. I think it called a "wing series" with the paisley sound hole.
Nice Guitar!
You must have an talent to build instruments like that.
I have sold persimmon for finger boards. Ever tried any persimmon?
Wow! I just noticed that you are 22 YO. You work like a old champ!
I've always liked playing nylon string classical guitars, and I've played a few of the steel strung parlor guitars. I really like the sound of them, I suppose in some ways they are similar to "gut strings". Dreadnoughts seem to be designed to be big and loud when strummed, whereas the parlor guitars came from an era when the guitar played more instrumental pieces or voice accompaniment. They aren't as loud and boomy, but they have much more tonal color on the sifter side of the spectrum. I'm sorry, I'm not very good at desribing the subtleties of tone with words, but this much I know- I'm always drawn towards the little parlor guitars when I'm in a music store. As one music store employee said when he saw me playing one- "little guitars are cool." ;) Yup.
Quote from: Den Socling on November 08, 2016, 09:58:43 AM
You work like a old champ!
Thanks! The learning curve was more like climbing a cliff than anything else.
Quote from: barbender on November 08, 2016, 12:44:38 PM
Dreadnoughts seem to be designed to be big and loud when strummed.
Back in the day (1930's) a big part of the allure was having a bigger bass response with a dreadnought.
Now everyone and there brother owns a dreadnought style guitar.
Which is why I like making parlor guitars and short scale electric basses, something different.
Glenn