Binding jigs and current status

I finished 10 spool clamps so far out of the 30 I think I will require. only 20 more to go... woo hoo. ;-)
I ran out of self adhesive felt today, so that slowed me up. I also started thinking about what type of jigs I will need for routing my binding channel, as well as the perfling channel.

To my disposal I have a regular table mounted router, laminate router, as well as a Dremel with a router base.

I was thinking about this one at stewmac:


Although this one looked really cool as well:


The dremel router base I have:



Maybe this one as a DIY:


This is not a bad idea for another DIY jig.

Braces

I just shot off a quick e-mail to USGUITARKITS.com with a questions about shaping the upper X Braces. The instructions they give have 2 templates for the lower X Braces, but none for the upper X Braces.

They replied quickly by letting me know that the template for Lower X Brace on the right hand side of their template page was mislabeled and should read Upper X Brace. They also said the manual will be getting an update and posted on the website.

Tonight I fit the top of the guitar to the back and everything lines up great. Just a little cleanup work on the braces and I should be band-sawing some of the excess off the top and gluing the top to the sides. This is my plan for next week. But first I must complete making the spool clamps I had started. I completed a few, now to drill and felt the rest.

I was also contemplating replacing the plastic binding and perfling in the kit with:
Binding Laminated Rosewood:

Perfling:

Images from Stuart Macdonald http://www.stewmac.com

More brace work

Back to the guitar. No tool building tonight.
;-)


I had to set up my router to get the ends f the braces to an equal height. I also trimmed the pockets in the kerfed lining for the shoulder and X braces to sit on.

The photo below is how I rigged the router, by drilling a hole through the yellow plastic and mounting to the oak rails of my shooting board using a screw. I then se the bit to about 3/16 above the guitars soundboard.



kerfed lining cutting:





My guitar inscription:


Let me know if you can guess what it means. Also if you took Latin, let me know if my conjugation is correct.

Backsaw

Here is a photo of the heirloom Backsaw I just built. I followed an article from Shop Notes Magazine.
I cut EVERY tooth by hand. There are a boat load of teeth on a saw.....

This was enough of a distraction, now back to my guitar.




http://www.shopnotes.com/issues/109/sources/heirloom-back-saw/

Inlay

Just saw a great video on doing inlay on an Acoustic guitar.






Hmm.....

I updated this post on 1/30/2010 to provide some links to inlay suppliers:
www.luthiersupply.com

Here they provide a good intro to inlay here
As well as some info on making a tool:


Here is a link to some tools for sale such as the dental bur: here

Book

Just picked up "Guitar Making" by Cumpiano/Natelson. Very comprehensive.

I already read about half the book.



Guitarmaking-Tradition-Technology-Construction at Amazon.com

Also got distracted building a heirloom backsaw.

Shooting Board

Shooting Board Completed:





This was very helpful as a good work surface. I used MDF as a base and oak as rails.
Then I started carving the finger braces and tone braces.