Penny Guitars

I fitted the rosette to the soundboard and made a pretty good job of it as well, at least it looks quite good. I have attached the neck and glued the sides to the soundboard.
My diabetes has been getting the better of me the last week, I am getting stuff done but a lot slower than usual.

Here is where I am up to today: I have glued the back on and fitted the purfling and the macassar ebony binding to the front. I have also fitted the rosewood binding to the back. There is still lots to do but it looks like a classical guitar now. Here is a whole bunch of pictures.

I am hoping to put many more pictures up sometime late tonight, so check back.

I am now fitting a rosette to the soundboard and as soon as that is done then I will be doing the bracing and finally getting around to fixing all the parts together to make it at least look like a guitar, making it sound like a guitar takes a bit longer.

So if you have been wondering why there has been no posts lately it was just a case of waiting for a rosette. I did look into making my own rosette and after a bit of tinkering I decided that life is too short to muck around doing that.
I wonder if there are any luthiers that make everything when making a guitar, even the machine heads. I do actually have a lathe and milling machine and theoretically I could make my own machine heads, but I am not going to do that. Mind you now the seed is sown, who knows?

So there should be a few posts in the next few days as I put this guitar together.

I am waiting for the delivery of the rosette I bought for this guitar, so I am getting other things done while waiting. I needed a method of drilling the 10mm holes in the classical style headstock. My solution can be seen in the pictures below, it works really well and allows me to drill the holes with my hand drill. I made this jig to be screwed to the headstock while drilling, I didn’t want the problem of the clamp slipping. The two small blind holes that the screws make are hidden by the machine heads when done.

I have made the bridge, it is not completely finished yet, I need to rub it down a bit more.

I still have the finger board to to do, I have reduced it down to the correct thickness so I need to cut the fret slots, this is a 25.6″ (650mm) scale and I do not have this scale marked out on my fret cutting jig so I will probably do that next.