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Spot the crack. A side cracked when handling the mold. I was gluing the linings (wide to make them stronger ha!!!) And a clamp got stuck andcrrr. You can't see the crack anymore basically and it's stronger than before... i glued the side offcuts to cover the crack under and will fill that spot with more reinforcements.

Little OM Hand split braces for the archtop New flame maple sides for the archtop. The lamination on the other ones has a suspicious gap right in the neck joint area. Not gonna risk it. Plus the carve is so nice that it deserves a full flame body

The maderas barber spalted beech was the hardest wood to bend i've ever tried... And i can bend snakewood and padauk and granadillo... I started at 2.7 cause the wood seemed too flabby already and beach should work at this thickness. Nope! Snap! A little thinner? Snap. Hotter? Snap. Wetter? SsssSnap. Dry? Snap snap. No warning. 1.7 and hot and wet. I didn't measure right on the second side and it started to brake. It was at 2 mm. I immediately started to bend it back straight, made it 1.7 and continued... Already weak so it continued to want to break in that spot. Too difficult to change the shoulder bend position at this point so i thinned it down to something ridiculous like 1 mm and bent behind the wannabe crack. Crisis averted. The sides were gonna get laminated/doubled anyway so it's all ok. The mahogany i will use for lamination is 1.2-1.4 mm. With wide solid linings and more reinforcing they will never break. Heart attack avoided The archtop is a lot of work but it's the most awesome thing ever. Nothing cooler than carving and tap tuning and bracing...

Archtop Day 5 Maine ii tai f holes

Archtop carvin day 2 3 n 4

Gonna fail no matter what. Replace bridge.

Carpathian 18 in emperor style archtop Day 1

Bababibam Aveam niste furnir sa fac sideuri din el belea imi iesea. Dar nu e de ajuns. Tre mai lungi... hahahahaha. Nici hartia nu e de ajuns. Nici spatele ca are crapatura aia which is why it was cheaper, but i will build the insides so that part is redundant and then put an inlay on the outside. When in doubt - inlay. Omfg and that gauge- muaaaa. Beleeaa

Starting the year right Maderas Barber Giveaway Lucky Spalted Beech OM Carpathian Spruce top 18 inch emperor style archtop (mould on the way)

O sa ii pun padauk. Purpleheartu pierde culoarea rapid si nu e asa de stabil si dur. Pickguardu ar strica simetria

Momentan un neck de proba pana il termin pe ala de mahon Greseli la tot pasul

Tailpiece si celelalte finger rest. Nush daca o sa tina. Am laminat-o dar dupa intamplarea cu cea de abanos zitan cred ca o sa incerc un altfel de tailpiece... Sau o mai laminez odata... Nush inca...

Amboyna burl Amboyna burl

When in doubt... Use hand tools. Mi-as lua un veritas router plane... Dar 3000 de rmb...

Neck plate si bridge de abanos pt mini OM. Tre sa ii fac dovetailul dar astept o zi mai buna... Intre timp telecaster cu estetica uratului. O campanie impotriva celor care isi aseaza ciorapii in functie de culoare si care se fau mari ca au OCD. Bridge de bronz. Tonerider pickups. Estetica uratului primeaza. Okoume chambered body Ziricote top (sides for acoustic that cracked. Which is better cause sides are perfectly QS) with patches Neck is out. Gonna have to make another. Archtop 2 gata Dearmond pickup Carved spruce top x braced blackwoodtek flat back Ebony fingerboard and finger rest Avea si un tailpiece de ebony+zitan dar a cedat. Also i am hoarding a lot of wood....

Univibe facut de gigimarga

Cedar Granadillo classical no. 3 Improvised experimental build first, the sides and neck joint created an off center center line. also a huge crack in the sides at the upper bout. after putting it aside in the trash area i changed my mind, I remedied it.. as much as i could and continued. the top has an experimental bracing, with long radial like braces but that go into a single point like bouchet braces. I thought the bracing was too weak so after further consideration i rebraced the center brace - a thick tall brace. the top radius had to be different than the traditional classical radius, because there is no mid ladder brace. the radius is all the way to the upper structure brace. because of the technique the top radius created a weird neck angle. the top is --/ compared to the neck. i decided to leave it like that and try the tom bills style harp angled top. somehow i got lucky and without this being planned out the neck angle is ok and action is fine. many mistakes - left visible for easy problem solving. Huge hole in the sides for easy fixes. i gotta redrill the tuner holes once i buy a classical tuner jig. dunno how i managed to drill first two classicals straight... Alaskan Cedar top. German spruce braces. Granadillo bns Ebony mahogany laminated neck Macassar ebony fretboard Ebony bridge w carbon fiber tie blocks. Labella strings onthe recording