Acoustic Build 2013/2014 ( Mark Bailey Course)

ArchtopDave

Once this is done with each piece, a bit of further fine tuning of some of the pieces is needed (more sanding) to get them to fit a neat circle.

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ArchtopDave

the Rosewood pieces are then stuck down with double sided tape and the outer and inner sides routed to size.

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ArchtopDave

What you cannot see from individual photos is that you hold the Router steady, and turn the wood - this saves the Router Cable getting wrapped round and around. Here's part the way through routing the outside.

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ArchtopDave

Inside as well as Outside routed.

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ArchtopDave

Channel for the Rosette routed in the Top to the size of the Rosewood segments.

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ArchtopDave

Then all the segments were glued in.

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Jalapeno

great so far - keep 'em coming .....

ArchtopDave

The wood, that I used as my Template, was then clamped over the Rosette to hold it as flat as possible.

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This is the end of my August trip to Bailey's. I'm going back for another 5 days at the beginning of November.

ArchtopDave

Almost forgot. The weather was good, particularly on the weekend. Here's  Sunday's Sunset from the beach at Ayr.

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fatherjack

Cracking work as always - for those who have yet to see the quality of Dave's work, have a look for details of his archtop and Les Paul.  I don't know if they've appeared here yet, . but if not just go to the Bailey site and look for archtop Dave.

DiscoStu

Superb so far!

TTony

Brilliant Dave.  Thanks for taking and sharing all the pics with us.  The intricacy and accuracy of making acoustics just scares me!

ArchtopDave

Excuses,Tony, excuses. You know you want to have a go!

Have to say it felt really good to be back there working on wood again.

TTony

ArchtopDave said:

Excuses,Tony, excuses. You know you want to have a go!

I would love to have a go. 

But the workshop is about an 8 hour drive away for me, so it's not viable for me to visit for a few weekends during a year.  When I went last year, I never really recovered from the initial drive up there and I think it'd now take me a day to recover from the drive before heading into the workshop to do that sort of fine, detailed work.

Which makes it completely unviable from a time perspective, regrettably.

But I shall enjoy watching yours take shape over the next few months. 

ArchtopDave

I'm sure it might well be possible for you to do a week at a time. I could have done the whole of last week up and to including  Saturday, but my daughter had been abroad for 2 weeks (first time that she'd been away on her own) and I wanted to spend a few days with her.

 I too had to rush around on the first day this time and didn't get to Mark's until 4pm, and I couldn't really get into it that day. Fortunately it was just planning and drawing. I certainly felt totally different the following day, and happily got stuck into actually starting to make the guitar.

When I go back in November, I'm doing 5 days. I'm planning to travel to Scotland the afternoon of the day before so I'm fresh and ready to get going the next day.