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Oska Burman Guitars - MDC - Adirondack/Antique Mahogany
Good morning/evening all, which ever time zone you may be reading this in. Hope everyone is well!
Next up on my bench is an MDC model made from Adirondack & Antique Mahogany. My client is a huge flatpicker, fingerpicker and blue-grasser as well as a Doc Watson fan. So we're going for something of a modern take on Doc's guitar, sporting an arm bevel. Doc actually used to retrofit an arm rest to his cutaway dread, so it's not far from this actually! This one will have laminated sides of Mahogany & Cherry. He's also an avid Mando player as well, so is very fond of the old Flamed Maple, so we'll be including this in his build. Hope you enjoy following along and please feel free to chime in with any comments! Cheers, Oska. Joining the Hog back using the old Spanish rope & wedges method Lovely piece of Hog actually. There's even a bit of ripple in this piece when it catches the light Radial wood rosette with a bit of a twist. The flames form the radial element in this one Sunshine through the shop window always does the wood some good First step of rosette inlaying Then I install the purfling lines Still not finished here, as the soundhole edge will be bound in ebony. This will be done at a later stage. Vacuum pressing the laminated sides over a former Gluing on the bottom block Next is gluing on the top block
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The inside of the arm bevel block is shaped Details of the inside of the rim set Cross grain laminated mahogany top block
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The orientation of the flame on the rosette looks really great!
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That is beautiful, super clean work !
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Cheers. Yes it was a collaboration between myself & my client. We were originally going to do a radial rosette with a stripy, straight grained hardwood, but due to his love of flamed maple, we came up with the idea of using the flames as the radial element. It has come out looking very smart, if I do say so myself.
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Thanks a lot hgaynor. It all counts toward a great guitar, I believe.
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So this is where I'm at currently.
The box closing ceremony is imminent & then the neck will be started. So I decided to try this method for the ebony ring that will frame the soundhole edge, whereby I inlayed a strip of Ebony that I'd bent to shape on a hot iron, but not to the full depth of the soundhole patch. Then I thicknessed the soundhole patch from the back, as per usual, to reveal the bound Ebony ring. The soundhole is then cut out, support braces around the soundhole are glued & shaped, then the x-brace The soundhole is now bound & therefore the rosette is now complete. Looking pretty sharp actually. After taking the x-brace down to height, it gets some initial profiling One brace to go... The last brace to be glued on is the upper transverse Just about to glue the soundboard to the rim Gotta notch all the braces into their pockets A bunch of different clamps are required for this operation of gluing the soundboard to the rim set Adirondack back reinforcement strip is profiled Then it's notched to receive the back braces The back braces get profiled
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