Thread: WIP - Dreadnaught steel string guitar

Things not moving at all with the classical...still waiting on supplies for French Polish job on same. Got sick of the wait so made a start on guitar number 3. Its a Dreadnaught style 6 string. Pic is of the completed soundhole inlay. The shell inlay is abalone and the purfling is double lines of BWB on the inner and outer rings and single lines of BWB bordering the abalone. The whole thing was set up in channels routed into a polyurethane chopping board before routing the actual top. This allows all pieces to be checked for exact fit. When routing the wooden top the router settings were taken by lowering cutters into channels in the chopping board. The top is AAA grade Sitka spruce supplied by Scott Wise in Margaret River. 25 x 25 mm Abalone pieces were bought from Guitar Australia.