English Brown Oak Parlor for TAMCO, UK

[Claretman]

+1 from me Steve but that's pretty obvious !!! By the way as my sister is married to Yorkshireman and only lives a few miles from "Kilburn" I have no choice really do I LOL

Iain

[Claretman]

Apologies to Trevor at TAMCO for briefly hijacking your build thread. I'll shut up for now and continue to watch from the back of the class

Iain

[TomB'sox]

I am not versed enough in the English countryside to vote on the name, but I do want to say, Holy Cow look at the size of those logs out front!!! Also what is that blue coloration in the sky, does that scare the natives when it is not gray and overcast LOL.

[Steve Kinnaird]

Plates are inlaid, so we can move on to the curvier parts of the instrument.
I found the EBOak easy enough to bend. The color bled on the bender, my hands, pretty much everything in the vicinity. But, that didn't affect the shade of these sides:





Out of the bending form, into the mold for blocks and linings:







And a bit out of sequence, here is Ryan prepping the back edge of the sides to receive the backs's curvature. The rails either side of the mold establish the front-to-back taper. This truing step can get noisy, so experience dictates a good set of ear protectors:




Thanks for watching,

Steve

[Steve Kinnaird]

Gluing the back:




You will notice some hefty rubber bands, gaggled together for downward pressure. It is amazing the amount of force applied.
And here's a pic I love--Ryan twisting and shouting:




I love this because of the cardio-vascular benefit. A complete upper body workout, that keeps his waist trim and his wits sharp.
Plus...I don't have to do it.

Thanks for following along,

Steve

[TomB'sox]

Man how fast is he spinning that sucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lizzard]

I think I just got vertigo looking at the last pic of Ryan

[Chedeng88]

DJ Ryan in da house tonight! Raise your hands up in the air!

Originally Posted by Steve Kinnaird

[Steve Kinnaird]

Ryan IS the man!

SK

[nacluth]

Oh brother. I will give anyone $50 off their guitar if they'll come and do that one step though. It's a workout. One day we'll join the high tech luthiers - like John - that have motorized this process.

[j. Kinnaird]

Originally Posted by Steve Kinnaird

Ryan IS the man!

SK

Why does everyone in the house have a cigarette lighter? What's up with that? Is that part of millinial cool? Like using numbers for words and saying "I know.right?"

Well it's true, Ryan is the man.

[Steve Kinnaird]

Originally Posted by j. Kinnaird

Why does everyone in the house have a cigarette lighter? What's up with that? Is that part of millinial cool? Like using numbers for words and saying "I know.right?"

Brother, we're probably too old to get it. Definitely not cool enough.

Forgot to chronicle a step or two. Like back braces. Here they are, fitted between the center seam strip, right before carving:



Da man checking the thickness of brace ends. Pockets will be routed into the linings to accept that depth:



And fitting that pretty back onto the rims. Lining up centerline fore and aft locates brace pockets, which are cut in with a router:



All this was done before Ryan's Rim Rotations.

Thanks,

Steve

[TomB'sox]

Originally Posted by Steve Kinnaird

Gluing the back:




You will notice some hefty rubber bands, gaggled together for downward pressure. It is amazing the amount of force applied.
And here's a pic I love--Ryan twisting and shouting:




I love this because of the cardio-vascular benefit. A complete upper body workout, that keeps his waist trim and his wits sharp.
Plus...I don't have to do it.

Thanks for following along,

Steve

I know nuthin, that is the first thing to throw out there, but would there not be a way to make the sanding disc spin while the guitar is held still?

[Steve Kinnaird]

Originally Posted by TomB'sox

I know nuthin, that is the first thing to throw out there, but would there not be a way to make the sanding disc spin while the guitar is held still?

Oh yeah, there's a way. In fact, I've seen several clever ways to spin the disc.
Building such a device is on the "to do" list, but several other things are ahead of it. I bet you know how that goes.

[nacluth]

Originally Posted by Steve Kinnaird

Oh yeah, there's a way. In fact, I've seen several clever ways to spin the disc.
Building such a device is on the "to do" list, but several other things are ahead of it. I bet you know how that goes.

Translation: "As long as Ryan's here to do it, there's no urgent need to build one."