Per Hallgren -> RE: The building of a Swedish flamenco guitar (Jan. 3 2008 7:41:42)
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Well, I realize that it is some time since I rang the bell about doing this presentation but time has been short during all those hollidays...ah, soon it is over and we can continue our real lives again... Anyway, thought I should try to post a first part. As I wrote in the beginning of this thread I will write quite short and let those who have any questions ask about it, and also, I will not ask for being the sole conductor. Anyone who wants can take the lead for a while and we can see where we are getting. This photo presentation was made in two swedish guitar forums, one for “classical guitar” and one for “acoustic guitar”, and the purpose was mostly about presenting the overwhelming amount of small details that come together in a fine guitar and pointed to guitarists, not guitarmakers. I realize that we are a bunch of guitarmakers in this Foro. Please be nice to me! Everything was done during a normal working day and everything was improvised during the work. No planning ahead, no special lights, no pretentions about being a good photographer or anything. Take it as it is! I will not spend the whole day trying to make my english better than it spontanously will be while writing from the heart. I am sure much will be in “Swenglish”... OK. Here’s the starting point. I have joined the top and back. I have picked a suitable neck from the shelf and gathered some other preshaped parts as the fingerboard for example. The first task is to make the rosette. This is an example of one of my rosettes. It is a traditional design with a mosaic as a central motif and borders with different coloured veneer lines and “rope”. I will make a little bit less complicated design for this flamenco guitar. It is a paraphrase of a Santos rosette. The mosaic design is drawn on a paper. I cut strips from veneers and size them to exact equal thickness. In this case 0.50 mm Every bunch of strips will make one row in the mosaic. I glue the strips together... ...and working with plane and scraper I thin them to the same thickness as the original veneer strips, 0.50 mm. This way every strip will be square looking from the short end. The veneer rows is positioned in the correct order forming a log... ...and glued together. The logs are sliced... I cut a thin slice from a veneer stack of different colors. The slice is cut to thin strips. Looking from the correct angle the rope design is revealed. Different colored veneer strips are cut to be used as lines in the borders on both side of the central mosaic.
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