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estebanana
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RE: thinking about building a guitar (in reply to Morante)
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You cannot make a guitar without a small workshop, a proper bench and adequate tools. My friend Rafael made mediocre guitars for a while, then attended a course with Romanillos, which changed his life. If you are clever you can make a guitar with virtually a few hand tools and few quick tools and jiggy things you can make, but to know how to do that you have to have made a few guitars first. You can cut the rosette circle with popsicle stick, an exacto knife and a nail by making it into cutting compass. Then you need one good medium sized plane, a hand saw or two, a few clamps etc. But most important, you can begin the guitar with five things: Paper, pencil, T-Square, ruler, compass.... throw in a pair scissors, and some heavy paper for making a pattern of the plantilla from another guitar, and pocket calculator to figure out the fret positions. A flat surface to work on and some music to listen to and you can begin drawing of the guitar. Do it over and over in advance of cutting the wood and you'll learn all kinds of things you don't learn when you buy a set of predrawn plans. Take a guitar you like, put small light bulb in side the sound hole and illuminate it to trace the braces. Trace them on onion skin or tissue paper. You can have all kinds of fun before you even buy the wood.
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