Archive for the ‘Lacewood Parlor Guitar (SP2)’ Category

As you will recall the sides had been bent and were ready for the next stage. The Universal mould was to get its maiden trial, that required the wooden bolsters to be positioned,using a templet, so that it exactly represented the dimensions of the Parlor guitar that is being built in this Project. This is not a big or difficult job and with use of the Templets, was accomplished in 10 minutes.The moment that the Mould was ready the bent , but as yet uncut sides, were fitted into... Read More

I frankly think that I have bitten off more than I can chew,so to speak. This job should have been done much sooner, however with my other commitments and the workload that i have set my self by having four(4) Special Projects on the go has meant that I have been a little tardy  with some of my Project work. I will have to see that this does not happen again.     I joined the back with bold zipper Marquetry strip, not the usual strip that I join my backs with, but I thought that this... Read More

This is “Special Project ,”SP2″. A Parlor Guitar built from Lacewood. I will give as much detail as I can without duplicating the Processors along the way.For example in in “SP1″ I will detail the building of the neck for that Guitar which is an OM. It will have a flat headstock and be equipped with Gotoh 510 Tuners. Normally I would not repeat the building of the neck for this(“SP2″) guitar,however this is a  Parlor and will have a slotted head stock and... Read More

Dan Kabanuk  from LMI suggested to me one morning that I should try a set of “Lacewood”,he said that the Timber had originally been sourced for solid body Electric Guitar Tops because of its unusual figure. He described the Timber as having  an outstanding cross-hatched figure, in a warm cinnamon brown color, the wood was dense and had a loud sustaining tap tone,and it had occurred to someone at LMI that it just might make a great ,back and side set,and so it turned out. I said,”send... Read More