January 9, 2010

This guitar, which has been dubbed “highly decorated”, will get a paua purfling with curly maple binding.  First step was to channel out the area where the binding and purfling will be inserted.

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The construction is done in steps, unlike the binding of the body.  I will install/glue in the curly maple, bwb, teflon, bwb in phases, each sandwich installed in one segment, allowed to dry, then followed by the next segment.  This will necessarily be a slow process while waiting for the glue to dry for each segment.  Looks like some multitasking is in my future.

I did get a few new repair jobs over the holidays, and I plan a fret dressing for Beth’s OM, so there’s no lack of opportunity.