Een kleine gitaar met een groots geluid! Bijna 2 jaar heb ik aan deze gitaar gewerkt.
Het moment dat de snaren er op gingen en het eerste geluid uit dit gitaartje kwam was dan ook overweldigend…
Ik had de snaren er alleen nog maar op gezet om de topkam en het zadel af te stellen etc.
maar kon niet meer stoppen met spelen én lachen… van oor tot oor!
Specs:
Tuning: G-C-F-A#-D-G
Back and sides: Walnut
Top: Port Orford Red Ceder
Neck: Flamed Maple / Walnut
Fingerboard: Ebony, 16″ radius, 13th. frets clear to the body, 19 in total
Scale length: 55,50 cm (21,85″)
Nut Width: 44,2 mm (1,74″)
Turners: Gotoh 510
Strings: Elixir Phosphor Bronze 012-053
K&K Pure Mini Pickup (Gold Strap Button – not in the pictures yet)
Body length: 39,2 cm (15,35″)
Upper bout: 22,1 cm (8,66″)
Waist: 18,7 cm (7,48″)
Lower bout: 29,15 cm (11,42″)
Overall length: 84,8 cm (33,46″)
Depth at tail block: 10 cm (3,94″)
Depth at heel: 8 cm (3,15″
Headstock veneers: front: Coromandel, back: flamed Maple
Fotoboek:
In het atelier…
The building proces:
Joining the top
Port Orford Red Cedar
Shooting board
Walnut
Walnut roset
Bracing the top
Bracing the back
Shaping…
Back and top ready!
Joining the neck woods
Flamed maple / walnut
Coromandel wood
Beautiful figured Coromandel
MOP logo inlay
AL, Arnaldo Lopez
Cutting the fretslots
Making the 16″ radius
More sanding needed…
The frets are hide-glued and pressed in.
Glueing back veneer on headstock
Side dots, 2mm!
Top veneer on headstock
Spanish heel
reaming…
Glueing the top to the neck
Left,… the first guitar I made!
On the solera!
Walnut for the sides
Shaping the sides
Sides in shape
Glueing the curved linings
You can never have enough clamps!
Signing the guitar before closing the box!
Side braces
Side braces glued
Tracing the outside of the guitar to the back with a ‘luthiers’ pencil
A coat of Shellac to the inside of the guitar
Labelled!
Ready to close the box
temporary piece of wood to keep the back secure during glueing