Here's a quick update on the Mahog/Adi OM Deep Body I am building with Larry Nair of
Tahoe Guitars.
We are getting very close to stringing her up! Today we glued the neck, did a little detail work and sanding on the bridge before gluing it, mounted the tuners and roughed in the nut.
The finish has cured for a few weeks and the neck set remained perfect. I was wondering if we would have to tweak the neck angle at all, but no need. We put hide glue on the cheeks of the tenon and on the fingerboard extension and clamped her down.
We used hide glue on the bridge as well. The bridge was mounted unslotted. Larry feels it is better to use the actual position of the bridge to place the saddle slot rather than the other way around. He has a nifty homemade gig to guide his router on the mounted bridge.
We pressed in the tuner bushings and mounted the tuners (Grover Sta-Tite gold). We reamed the post holes to remove the shellac residue, pressed on the bushings and tightened up the mounting screws. If only the rest of buiding a guitar could be so easy.
I also chose some antique bone bridge pins. The yellowed bone with black dot looks really good against the blond satin shellac.
The bits attached with hide glue have to remain clamped for 24 hours, so we have one more work session before she's strung up.
Remaining is to slot the bridge, ream the string holes and slot the bridge plate, mount the pickgaurd, and do the final setup.
Enjoy the pics.
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Perfecto!
Heating the gluing surfaces with a heat lamp to give a little more working time with the hide glue:
Note the little crack in the top by the truss cutout. That was our second "bump" in the build. Fixed with some CA:
