The Making Guitar
The Making Guitar step by step for super(?) beginner.

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(C)1999 Makoto Tsuruta
Last updated: 1.June.2001
Ver 1.8.3
Japanese full version is here!

 

 


||| Introduce

||| Preparation:

Howdy! I am an amateur Luthier (not professional), I have poor technique to make instrument, and If you have nice idea and professional technique, please advice me . I'm not gooood at english (very well !?). I think you can not understand some descriptions in this page(probably). But you will enjoy only picturs. Sorry, my poor english.




contents

||| 1. Considering styles

||| Think about some type guitars...


||| 2. Examination

||| Refer to old picturs and etchingprints


||| 3. Arrange materials

||| Domestic Wood shop or import?


||| 4. Drow the plan

||| Buy or drow my self?


||| Offer my drowing plan for you.

These plan are PDF data. You need software Acrobat Reader(Free program). http://www.adobe.com/


Instrument1 : CRANE Lacote Style model

This ia my original guitar that refer Lacote instruments.

||| PDF(1of2:400KB/2of2:330KB)


Instrument2 : R.F. Lacote 1839

This is original instrument R.F.Lacote 1839. Orner Mr. T.Nishikawa (TOKYO).

||| PDF(1of2:320KB/2of2:290KB)








||| 5. Wooden solera

||| Make template

||| Wooden mold from template



||| 6. Top(soundboard) and bookmatching

||| Shave and glue

||| Cut out the top board



||| 7. Roset

||| Attention the glain direction


||| 8. Making bar

||| Arched bar shape



||| 9. Top bracing

||| Clamp and shaving



||| 10. Neck and headstock

||| How join?



||| 11. Heel caving

||| Choose " i " type and " V " type?



||| 12. Finger board

||| Finger board fitting



||| 13. Headstock formation

||| Opening Peg hole



||| 14. Body

||| Bending the Side plate

||| Block caving and glue

||| Laminate maple to sprouce



||| 15. Lining

||| Fit the back board

||| Glue lining to body



||| 16. Back board

||| Back bars



||| 17. Build body

||| Glue top board

||| Glue back board



||| 18. Strap pin

||| Use caving machine



||| 19. Binding

||| Cut ebony wood

||| Important contact face angle



||| 20. Perfring

||| Just fit!



||| 21. Vernish

||| Shellac vernishing / Caution air ventilation

||| Polish with micromesh (dry method)



||| 22. Join neck to body

||| Get over the difficulties



||| 23. Heel and cap

||| Check some pot



||| 24. Making pegs

||| Shape cylinder wood on a lathe



||| 25. Bridge

||| Draw and shaving

||| Open peg hall



||| 26. Saddle and nut

||| This work is smells.....

||| Complete bridge glue



||| 27. Frets

||| Fret calculation by my CGI program

||| Adjustment height



||| 28. labelling and sign

||| My dream, my original label !



||| 29. Vernishing to sound board

||| Sun sickened linseed oil

||| Body polishing



||| 30. Fine adjustment

||| Serect string guage (Calcurate string tension)



||| 31. Completed!! Let's play!! exhibition!

||| Let's Play!! / Showing at exhibition 1999




||| Postscript


I am an amateur luthier, sorry my some poor commentaries on this page. Please email with any advises.



||| Attention!

||| Address of thanks

I was taught precious advices from some professional luthiers;

Special thanks for great luthiers Mr.Andrea Tacchi, Mr.Kiyoto Tanaka, Mr. Hiroshi Mizuhara.


- June.1.2000 Makoto Tsuruta -

 

 

 


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