Bracing

Below is a photo showing the guitar back with bracing in place.  I prefer to glue most of the braces in place and carve them in-situ.

Guitar Order

Here are a couple more photos of the guitar I am currently working on.  Here's the roughed-out back with the centre strip in place:

And here I'm using go-bars to keep the sound hole doughnut in place while it's being glued:



Christmas Guitar Order

I've just received a box of goodies from LMI which will be transformed into a guitar by Christmas - I hope!

The rosewood back:

The design for the guitar and a template showing the bracing pattern:

 

A general view of my workshop:

I will keep you updated on its progress.

 

Video Clips

Lee Shackley kindly sent along these clips he took of Mike Simpson playing the Stephen John guitar he recently acquired from me.  Please click the links below to see them on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ka3u2QCI3g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkfVuHNS6to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j017rZLbFSQ

I'm pleased to see that Mike is really enjoying playing it!