by Caz | Oct 9, 2010 | Build Your Own, Build Your Own Guitar, Guitar Making Students
Steve has come to finish his guitar while Ciaren continues with his acoustic Today is mainly dedicated to getting Steve’s ‘Red Wine Burst’ guitar finished but Ciaren came as well as he wants to get his done before Christmas – we’ll do our...
by Caz | Oct 8, 2010 | !Bailey Guitars, Custom inlays
Gluing on the ebony headstock veneer The ebony for the headstock veneer is about 1mm thick. I marked it oversize, then cut it out roughly on the bandsaw before gluing it on. Blocks or ‘cauls’ are used to protect the wood while the piece is being clamped. I...
by Caz | Oct 2, 2010 | !Bailey Guitars, Custom guitars
…..The end of another week at the Bailey workshop…… That is about as far as I’m going to get this week. The body is routed and ready for the neck to be fitted to it – I won’t do any more work on the body until the neck is nearly...
by Caz | Oct 2, 2010 | !Bailey Guitars, Custom guitars
….Got the fretboard glued on and working on the body….. It’s been a very busy week…..I am working on several custom builds at the moment apart from this one. We also had three gigs this week instead of the usual two. Still, making good...
by Caz | Sep 22, 2010 | Custom guitars
….Working on the neck After gluing the cap on I went back to working on the neck. Cutting out the neck is a two stage process – I sometimes call it ‘Profiling’ some people call it copy routing……Profile – just means...
