Broken Wing Guitar repairs and restores used, salvaged, damaged, and vintage string instruments.....It began with a background and love of woodworking and acoustic music that developed into a passion as all things that you love do.To get our hands dirty and maybe with a little luck be able to give back some life to an instrument that may have ended up in the trash or someone's attic or closet, and let it make sweet music as it was intended to do. I do not claim to be the finest luthier or craftsman by any measure, just a person with a love for music and the instruments and people that make it.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Spruce Top


Short post today, just to keep things moving

I am working on the spruce top for the bubinga dreadnaught. Still trying to get the hang of routing the rosettes without tearing up the wood. I have used a full size router for many projects in the past, but this small dremel inlay routing takes a little more patience. Here I am using the Stew-Mac circle cutting set up. Main thing is to make certain everything is set properly and tightened. This Sitka spruce top is going to have a triple ring similar to the martin D-28 style



Below gluing the main cross braces to the top after installing the rosette and cutting the soundhole out. The spruce braces are approximately 1/4" x 1" at this point. They will be worked down and scalloped for this guitar. The tape is holding a piece of cardboard on the face to protect it while it is being worked on.









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