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Instrument Making Course

Posted on February 3, 2021March 22, 2021 by Iain 'Cutty' Carlin

I learned most about guitar making by doing the Instrument Making course at Tonsley TAFE. Unfortunately, TAFE have for some strange reason decided to discontinue that course (I thought it was very popular…go figure?!)

Anyway, Michael Snowden, who taught that course, has now set up his own business offering instruction on instrument making. Check out his website here: Adelaide Artisan Instrument Making. Guitar Making for everyone – Wood & Strings – Adelaide Artisan Instrument Making…

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Week 7 – Side Bending

Posted on March 26, 2015December 1, 2019 by Iain 'Cutty' Carlin

Side Bending

  • Thickness sides to 2.5mm
  • Cut to 115mm wide
  • Turn on the heating pad to warm up
  • Mark top and bottom and front with white engineers pen
  • Wet side and wrap in alfoil
  • Mark the waist position on the alfoil and insert into bender with bottom to bottom of jig
  • Put springs on clamps and side blocks after inserting wood
  • Heat for 15 minutes – screw down waist till tight then back off 2 turns
  • Pull over spring blocks to bend sides – may need to pull back and repeat
  • Turn off heater after 15 minutes and leave for a week to set bends

Top braces

  • Plane top braces to 15mm high
  • Cut leftover spruce from top to cover top of join in X-braces –  50mm long and as wide as brace
  • Glue and hold down with masking tape

Main brace hole for truss rod adjustment

  • Find centre of top main brace on front, mark 7.75mm up from botom and drill 9.5mm hole(for access to truss rod nut)
  • Chamfer other braces for top so centre is 3mm wide, remember not to go beyond the bottom width
  • Cut small 45 degree angles on ends of small braces to provide slotting into the cross braces
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Week 6 – Cross Brace

Posted on March 18, 2015December 1, 2019 by Iain 'Cutty' Carlin

Notch front X-brace

  • Use sliding bevel to set angles of cuts
  • Use scribe to measure 7.5mm from top and bottom of ‘A’ and ‘B’ braces
  • Notch for smaller braces into bottom of X-braces
    • Mark either side & cut with dovetail saw at 45 degrees then chisel out with 6mm chisel
  • Glue join of x-brace
  • Glue x-brace to front hold down with go-bars
  • Use wood slivers to get excess glue out of smaller brace cut-outs

 Back

  • With block plane chamfer off braces to a slope
  • Sand with 150 till tops are round
  • Clean off excess glue on back by sanding
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