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TWO PARLOR GUITARS
Two parlor guitars, partially done. The top one is cocobolo with a spruce top and mahogany neck, the bottom is ziricote with a spruce top, and will have a mahogany neck. The cocobolo instruments needs final finishing and a bridge and will be done soon.
SOME CLASSICAL GUITARS
Here are two classicals: The one on the left is a cocobolo Ramirez-style, the one on the right is quilty maple with a fir top (just to see how fir sounds on a classical guitar.
This red cedar topped yellow cedar classic, when finished, is going to be given to The Land Conservancy to auction to help buy Wildwood, an ecologically-managed forest nearby. http://www.conservancy.bc.ca/regioncontent.php?sectionid=27®ionack=VI
FLAMENCOS
This flamenco with a spruce top and Port Orford Cedar back and sides is built from Richard Brune's drawings of a Barbero guitar from the 1950s. Port Orford Cedar, which is very similar to Yellow Cedar, has a wonderful ginger-tea like smell. Yellow Cedar makes me gag! A little neck carving, some binding and finish and it will be done.
The bracing in this flamenco guitar is a bit of an experiment. I am trying to remove mass from the top while still keeping the needed stiffness. I eliminated the lower transverse brace and brought the inner 3 fan braces up to link with the sound-hole brace which is a bit more robust than I usually employ. The outer fan braces run clear up into the upper bout, going through a tunnel in the upper transverse brace. I chickened out a little and put in a bridge pad under the fan braces. The back and sides are yellow cedar, the top is western red cedar, the neck is Spanish cedar and the fingerboard, headplate and bridge will be rosewood.
A 12 FRET 000-STYLE GUITAR
This is a 000-style 12 fret guitar made of blister sapele with one of Shane Neifer's 'Lutz' spruce tops. The photo doesn't do it justice, but the figure of this mahogany is extreme.
A 'PROJECT' GUITAR
This lovely little Brazilian rosewood parlor guitar needs a neck reset, a fingerboard, a new bridge and some repair to the binding. The rosewood is so pretty, I suspect this may join the ranks of my personal guitars.
UKULELES
This padauk uke is in the hands of one of my daughter's soccer team-mates.
The osage orange ukulele will soon be ready. This also shows an early stage of the padauk uke shown above.
BANJOS
I'm putting this reproduction Triple X neck on this lovely old timer Triple X pot. Lots of restoration work to be done! I'm also restoring a Vintage Tubaphone banjo, and an old Ludwig Capitol banjo.
This sweet little English banjo, given to me by Barry Hall, a local Nanaimo musician and artist, needs very little work to be restored.
In the works are two acoustic bass guitars, both of quilted maple with Englemann spruce tops, more parlour size steel string guitars ( of rosewood, maple and Australian blackwood), two dreadnought steel string guitars (koa and maple), several classical guitars (maple, madrone and rosewood), more Irish bouzoukis of maple with fir or spruce tops, a couple flat-topped mandolins, a carved top A-style mandolin, two hammered dulcimers and a fretless wood-topped banjo. Should keep me busy.......