slowly slowly maky guitary
There has been very little progression. I have glued together pieces of wood to make the sound board on the front of the guitar. The sound board is dfferent from the back somehow, but I can’t see how… yet.
I had problems though. The front will be made from two or three boards glued together. Neil cut some nice pieces for me to use from some enormous – truely enormous- beams he had. The enormous beams were fed through the band saw, of which I am terrified. I stood back and watched the action and took photos.
I ended up with two lovely lengths of wood from the original thick black chunk of tree that Neil had started with.
black and white
The next day I planned on gluing them together to begin to form the soundboard for the front of my guitar, but when I returned to my wood, one of them was bent. It looked like a very long thin rain gutter. I was gutted. However, the Zen master had an idea. We soaked some paper towels in water, then laid them over the buckled length of wood, before clamping it firmly between two boards. The plan was for the board to absorb the water, take on the flat shape provided by the boards, then have the paper removed, be re-clapmed and left to dry out.
A week later I had a perfectly flat board to construct my sound board with.
