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Hi guys,

In case you haven't seen this, TerryM from another forum documented a 12-week guitar guitar building course in the UK.

I thought it was interesting in how different it was from my experience with Sergei de Jonge and the Teutonic process I learned.

With Terry's permission, I'm posting the link:
www.terrym.co.uk/makingaguitar

Some of the steps may surprise you...

Cheers,
WarrenWarrenG39066.5729166667

[QUOTE=WarrenG] Hi guys,

Some of the steps may surprise you...

Cheers,
Warren[/QUOTE]

A very nice looking guitar and it just goes to show that there is more than one way to skin this cat!!
(apologies to DW for the cat comment )

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Awesome.... first build?? Hard to believe!

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Cornerstone Guitars
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OOOh, how odd, I spent a good half hour perusing this site last night.

What a great documentation of a first build and beautiful photographs to boot...I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and I bookmarked it last night, to encourage me further into this difficult but rewarding craft... As will all my internet surfing, I had no idea HOW I got there...

What made it so poignant for me is that I used to live near Totnes years ago (oooooarrgh, Oi drink moi coider and eat moi poies..haha, lost the accent years ago!! )

It's GUTTING to know there is a really ideal guitar building course for me in a place I used to live at. Let me tell you, there is NOTHING like that up here.

Whinge over (seem to be doing a lot of that nowadays ), I was really amazed by the craftmanship in Terry's first guitar, remembering that it was made with as little power tool interference as possible and sincerely hope he persues this further and makes plenty more!!!Sam Price39066.7025462963

Thanks, Warren. Pretty interesting. He does really neat work, but YIKES (!!!), he glued on the bridge before the top was even attached to the sides! Good Golly!

Wow, that was great. I really enjoyed watching and reading about the way
he's using those traditional tools. I was bummed when I saw the router,
but hey, who am I to complain? Thanks!

Haha, I think the router is pretty key in the build, donchya think? otherwise for most of us cutting a truss rod channel by hand would be extremely difficult!!

[QUOTE=CarltonM] Thanks, Warren. Pretty interesting. He does really neat work, but YIKES (!!!), he glued on the bridge before the top was even attached to the sides! Good Golly![/QUOTE]

That's probably a hangover from lute building where it is the norm to glue the bridge on before attaching the top to the shell, with a rose rather than soundhole there is no access to the underside for clamping. It's the way I do it with my lutes. I have also done it like that a couple of times with guitars and it can be done just as accurately as gluing on after finishing, if you are careful with your measurement and work from set datum points. Don't forget the saddle location was established later. I wouldn't recommend it however, but the method shouldn't be dismissed as wrong, just different.

Colin
Colin S39067.1900347222

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Warren, thanks a lot bud, that was awesome watching this man doing it a l'ancienne!

I bookmarked this site too and will check it out often, i learned quite a few great tips from him!

Thanks again!

Serge