More progress on the OM acoustic guitar. Guitars are subject to a lot of stresses once the strings are attached and brought into tune.  This string tension can apparently rip a poorly built guitar apart – something I’d like to avoid. A series of internal bracing is designed to strengthen the guitar, without making it so stiff that the string […]

This will be a long post covering attaching the sides to the heel/tail block, radiusing the guitar sides, and installing the kerfing. After receiving two sets of pre-bent guitar sides from LMI that were cracked, I finally received a set that will work.  Each time the problem was where the cutaway returned from going around the horn to the neck. […]

Back in the shop after a couple of weeks away on vacation. I’ve made some good progress on the OM acoustic build, starting with getting the abalone shell rosette installed on the soundboard. The plan was to do the abalone rosette with a narrow ring of black/white/black purfling offset a little bit on either side. Once I got rolling, though, […]

OK. Third set of sides from LMI are in the works. They were a very apologetic about their lack of quality control. And I think this has led to some serious discussions in the shop. So fingers crossed that the 3rd time will be the charm. I’ve kept busy preparing the back of the guitar. This would definitely be easier […]

While waiting for the new sides to arrive, I have moved on to the fingerboard and neck. And it turns out that I really need to at least get the binding completed so that I know exactly what the width will be at the fourteenth fret.  This is where the neck joins the guitar.  And with a cutaway body style, […]