Friday, January 22, 2010

What I Have

My plan with this blog is to keep a pretty accurate record of everything I do and to share with others who are intrested in my plight or can learn.

Note my guitar is roughly an auditorium size, about 17 inch at the lower bout

These are the tools I have:
Coping Saw
Dovetail Saw
No. 5 Stanley Plane
Bailey Block Plane
Spokeshave
Small Trimmer Plane
0.8mm Scraper
Marples Chisels (1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1")
Glue Chisel
Files
Rasps
Xacto Knife
Dremel
9" Bandsaw
Table Top Belt Sander
Random Orbital Sander
4 - 4" C-clamps
2- 2" C-clamps
3- 4" reach bar clamps
2- Irwin Quick Grips
1- 4" deep reach
3/32" downcut bit
Dremel Plunge Router Attachment
various grit sand paper (80-150)
24" straight edge/precision rule
square
protractor
compass
6" precision rule
Medium Arkansas Stone
Fine Arkanasas Stone

Materials I Have:
Useless half size sitka top
Useless East Indian rosewood back
Sitka Top (cut to my design and thicknessed)
Indian Rosewood back (about the size for a dreadnought)
Indian Rosewood sides (1 thicknessed, 1 unserviced)
Kerfed Lining (enough for the guitar and extra)
Brace wood (split but not dimensioned)
Macassar Binding (enough for entire guitar)
Bloodwood binding with basswood trim
Bloodwood venner, headplate
Ebony, preslotted and pre-radiused fretboard (25.4 scale length)
Premade rossete (from Allied)
Fretwire
Mother of Pearl for dot inlays
2 saddle blanks
2 nut blanks

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