Hand Crafted Tools for the Art of Sound
Hand Crafted Tools for the Art of Sound
First Goal: Neck Block and Sides
Working neck Block on Band Saw (Safety Glasses Please!)
Getting there
Fine shaping of neck block
Finish work on neck block
Guilted Maple side - Fresh from the band saw. 6 years in the rafters. Old school surface sanding
To a consistant 3/16"
Water trough
Dive
Submerged for 6 hours
Getting general shape over a hot pipe (not too fast - not too slow)
Reapplying the side jig
On your mark, get set, ....
Leave for a week
Sides and neck block meet in a patter jig
Side (rim) fitted to neck block
Tah-Dah!
Purfling joint wood glued to rim
Expansion jig to square up rim in pattern jig
Some glue, some weight, some time
German Spruce (top wood) - 6 years in my rafters, quarter saw
Straight grain oriented in a "V" for strength
Sanding glue surface to 90
Traditional glue-up: A flat surface, pressed together, weight on top
A little of the Peak
One flat side
Flatness (Sweet!)
Out of the pattern jig - General trace of top plate (Make sure it's not reversed!)
Bottom purfling and first sight of modified tail block
Top plate glued - (Check out the plans)
Elevations
Elevations
Hobbing off the wood (Fingers, careful!)
More hobbing
There is nothing like soft Spruce - Straight grain and a sharp finger plane
"Bit of Heaven"
Arch elevations
Elevation holes inside arch
Disking to the bottom of holes
Basically there
20/100's" Rim, 7/100's" F hole area, 20/100's" under bridge (My favorite photo)
Modified (Toth) F holes
Finish work
Bass and treble balancing
Ready to mate
Fresh glue (reversable)
High anxiety clamping - The most stress inducing part of building
Curly Maple - Single piece neck
Truss rod jig
Truss rod alignment
Start the channel (Got's to be straight!)
Start the channel (Got's to be straight!)
Good fit
Good fit
Ebony fingerboard
Pattern powder
Pattern powder
Spray varnish powder
Pattern to rout
Fingerboard lines atop covered truss rod
Router pattern
Pieces fitted (cleaned and radius sanded)
Clean up (leaf at octave)
Head stock - veneer (Curly Maple, truss rod access)
Toth Logo cut out with jeweler saw
Toth logo
Neck carving jig
Fun with files
Fun with files
Jig
Binding on head stock
Razors are great spacers
Toth F holes
Finally getting whole - Lines coming together
A mistake turns into a special flurish
Love this photo
Binding on upper bout (#!*?@)
Getting there
The pieces face each other (bottom plate?)
The pieces face each other (bottom plate?)
Tuning top pate G# (not slotted peg neck joint)
Pressing frets
Pressing frets
Sanding and pressing frets
Fingerboard extension
Fingerboard extension
Piezo pickups and jack in back plate
Toth approach to jack and volume
Solder
Get electronics in before back goes on
Maple back plate carved, fresh glue ready to go
Stressful clamps
The clamps!
Neck to body glue up
Bridge fitting (green is sand paper, floating bridge)
Shooting the nitrocellulose
Taped and ready for 30 coats
Comes to life
