Crazydave's 2023 Brotherhood Build (may God have mercy)

[crazydave911]

Had to get out my cinch strap (you should have seen the guy at Home Depot's face when I said what wanted this for ) to slightly straighten the sides (hell I didn't have enough top anyway )

Hey I normally use the strap resetting necks (mostly Gibson ). There are few surprises in a Martin neckblock

 

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Gluing up, hope it looks better after it dries

 

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Ouch, clamps directly onto the spruce!

 

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Ouch, clamps directly onto the spruce!

Yeah, but I had no more wooden clamps, but WOULD have been ok if my sister hadn't turned it over this morning and busted two cracks in the SYCAMORE . Oh well, I've become pretty adept at fixing those

Meanwhile

 

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Being unable to choose your family members is a bummer isn’t it

 

[crazydave911]

Being unable to choose your family members is a bummer isn’t it

Tell me about it brother

 

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A long day away from home, got my fretboard marked and hopefully slotted tomorrow

 

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Starting on the neck mortice and gluing the slotted fretboard on

 

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Neck, so far.......

 

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Adding furring and repairing new crack

 

[crazydave911]

Crack repaired and last furring strip I own gluing up. Starting the side braces (coffee sticks). The one reason I use these, popsicle sticks and tongue depressors are that the best ones are orange wood. A very fine grained and strong wood in smaller sizes. All my acoustics from the old days had popsicle sticks and as far as I know never split

And yes the reason so many sycamore cracks? A false assumption of this design, that it wouldn't need bending. Had I bent the pieces and done the building form correctly, I might actually be bored by now lol

 

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"
- so how was that meal you've cooked yesterday?
- meh, not great
- did you follow the recipe?
- ahem...
"

 

[crazydave911]

"
- so how was that meal you've cooked yesterday?
- meh, not great
- did you follow the recipe?
- ahem...
"

Was delicious but me? I NEVER follow the recipe, my mom's Italian blood won't allow it

 

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Lol, 2 hours ago tried cooking Spaghetti Barese alla Assassina, and you know what - of course I didn't read the recipe thinking I remember it well enough. 2 times more passata than required is OK but not ideal LOL

 

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The looks however

 

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Bottom side braces, putting on the top . And...... waiting on the only kerfing I've ever bought

 

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Finished the top side braces and gluing the maple cap for the neck bolt

 

[39martind18]

I've thought about this all year . Should I build something I MIGHT can play (my short scale basses for example), a tiple,a tres, a cuatro? Or something familiar but hard to play?
Well familiar won out, for now lol

I've worked in the background on this all year so may as well build it

A uh guitar . A spruce top (scrap, not my best ) and a sycamore body (from dad's old place, decent)

A body/top plan and the old fashioned Stradivari building mold

I probably should have chosen different but I didn't (don't crap if I go crazy simple next year )

Ya can't go simpler than me- I'm not building anything!

 

[crazydave911]

Got a few things accomplished . Got my brass bolt cut down and in place (only have one left and it's ALL I've ever used for neck bolts ).

Sawed the basic mortise then routed the rest

Sits to straight now, have to pull sandpaper strips to get my neck angle. May have to wait for the bridge for that. Did a basic sanding and will likely have to piece the back, not wide enough now

 

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Still waiting on furring strips