The Build - Getting Started

Selecting the Woods for the guitar body
The first thing that Vince did on this project was to find some *really* nice Brazilian rosewood.
He managed to get his hands on just about enough to build a Dreadnought body. The wood was beautifully configured and would do just right. The added bonus was the sumptuous amount of sapwood down the centre of the book-matched back and all along the sides. The colour contrast would come up a treat once the instrument had been built and polished up.

1. Brazilian rosewood for the back and sides.
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2. Brazilian Rosewood back pieces.
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3. Solid Engelmann Spruce being glued together. Lots of nice bearclaw in there.
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4. Profiling the centre edges of the back pieces.  This has to be true for a straight fit.  It is done with sandpaper attached to a level and sanded by hand.
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