My Very First Guitar
So,.. I mentioned earlier how not everything went to plan, but actually, ended badly. I did the best I could at the time to correct these issues and for the most part I did...
I learned so much with this instrument. Everything that went wrong only served to teach me this new "art". Okay... so at the top of this image there is a massive crack in the neck close to where the neck heel meets the body. This crack extends all the way across the heel but the neck is still completely stable because of the way I cut and carved the neck. I still carve my guitar necks the same way to this day. The image below shows this crack very well. Next, the wood I used for the back and sides... As you can see, the strip of contrasting wood where the two book matched come together is way wider than one might normally see. The reason for this was that the back halves were too narrow. Duh... measure twice and cut once... right??
Here is a better view of the crack in the heel. As you can see, it extends all the way across. The next image shows this as well.
Now, this was the worst day in the shop to date... I cut the binding channel on the top side to be .250 inch into the side wood. This worked out fine except when I went to cut the back side channel, the bit on the router table climbed up out of the collet by almost the same amount making this cut nearly twice as deep as the top. Oops!!
For the nut, I used Vera wood. This wood is almost the hardest wood in the world next to lignum vitae. The cell structure of Vera wood contains waxy oil that lubricates the string slots. The dot inlays are black abalone inside a brass ring.