I forgot to mention I also decided today that I will not be building another acoustic guitar, so therefore I will be giving away most of the tools I have made, and if it is not against the rules of the community, I would like to give it to a member of our community. Maybe a moderator could advise me if this is ok, if so thatās what I would like to do, cheers HEC
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So, more progress today, it feels like I am getting somewhere now. I need to push this build on so I can move on, but without compromising the build itself. Cheers HEC
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Coming along great HEC!
I caught up with this thread after a couple months, itās been interesting reading about the home made tools and then the heater discovery, and everything else!
If you really are insisting, I suppose I will offer to take the wood burning stove off your hands.
Nice one, Jason. I wonder how much that would cost in the post, mate, put another log on the fire for me, was that a Bowie lyric, mmm? canāt remember the song, made tools only, Iām afraid, cheers HEC
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That Bowie song was Oh, You Pretty Things.
Hec, I can understand your not wanting to build another acoustic. Decades ago, I built a cedar-strip kayak from blueprints and a book. When my wife asked me to make her one, I groaned in anticipatory agony. Later she lucked into a build by someone else for a fraction of what mine cost, which for me was more in labor than materials.
Anyhow, no doubt building an acoustic guitar is just as painstaking but requires far more precision than building a kayak. Though I hope your guitar is a masterpiece, I can understand why you wouldnāt want to build another one, even with all of the jigs and experience.
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Oof, a cedar strip canoe or kayak was on my radar a LONG time before building a guitar. I knew a guy who made a cedar strip canoe. Absolutely stunning but the laborā¦the one I saw spent more than a year under construction.
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Thatās very strange because I nearly built a fibreglass canoe years ago because I just love canoeing, too old now, but god yeah brought back memories lads, and yes, oh you pretty thing by Bowie I love that song cheers
Youāre a top bloke Hec.
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@Mustela I was in business for myself at the time, so after I finished work for the day, Iād spend another 8 hours working on the kayak, almost always till midnight. It took me two months. At the time, I had a shop and a separate space to build the kayak.
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Yeay Jonathan, I remember the days, but retired now, not my wish, but music all day now
yeah the guy I know didnāt work so intently to get his done asap. He didnāt need to worry about the space for anything, but as a college professor who had other things on his plate after āregularā working hours, he did what he could.
I only barely have space to work on the instruments Iām building. and the sawdust is going to be a real issue to clean up when Iām finished. Itāll be incentive to clean the garage after, though.
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I have an air line and a compressor, Nate, so I am always opening the doors and blowing the entire garage out, itās a must
Iāll vacuum as much as I can before I go to that step. but my leaf blower works better than my little compressor.
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Yeah, Nate, same here. I also use an extraction on the hover when Iām working, but as you will know, it still gets everywhere, man, and the leaf blower, yip, that will work, good idea mate
only problem with the leaf blower is that I canāt have anything laying around unless I want it out in the yard.
I need to actually put stuff away first. 
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Yeah, Iāve been there as well, pens, pencils, drawings all over my drive and away up the street
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So today I finished the bending process, it wasnāt as bad as I thought it was going to be, so I feel a lot better now
Iāll trim them down tomorrow and start on the bindings cheers HEC
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So today, out came the front and the neck, and I sat and read for at least an hour, before I started to sort out my next jobs. The first problem was that the end block was 3mm higher than the neck heel, easy to sort, but that made the sides too tall, so I need to sort them out. Next came the treble side panel; itās not quite there with the shape of the guitar, and then if it wasnāt enough, I hadnāt prepared the neck heel properly, so yeah, phew, here we go again, but I love it, cheers HEC
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Really coming together now, lovely work!
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