The Making of a Guitar, part 2
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Plans that I drew for a terz guitar, it shares the same outline as the "Mae West" Lacote posted in the last blog. I did some research a while ago on the terz guitar and thought I should make one, because it would be as fun as a uke, bigger then a baritone uke and has six strings. This all started because I came across a fugue for terz guitar by Mauro Giuliani in the Boije online collection and fell in love with the piece.
In this photo I am gluing the peghead to the neck shaft. It is a simple butt joint and it will be reinforced with a dovetailed key, this is one time I will pull out my Porter-Cable router. I'll make the channel with a dovetail router bit, make the key on a table saw and glue the key in place.
Here is the wood that I am using to make the terz-Indian rosewood back and sides (I bought the wood from Allied Lutherie almost 10 years ago) and the top is Sitka spruce that I purchased from Alaska Specialty Woods. Believe it or not, the piece is from a 1A top.
Still waiting to see when I will be going to Rocky Mountain National Park. Weather has been gorgeous.
Oh, if anyone listens to NPR, maybe you have already heard about the Yosemite Valley Post Office getting a face lift with new sugar pine shingles. I was lead carpenter on that project, Nick G. and I put the last shingle on at 4pm on Groundhog Day. I will post some photos soon, the post office looks great!
Georgia O'Keeffe
Plans that I drew for a terz guitar, it shares the same outline as the "Mae West" Lacote posted in the last blog. I did some research a while ago on the terz guitar and thought I should make one, because it would be as fun as a uke, bigger then a baritone uke and has six strings. This all started because I came across a fugue for terz guitar by Mauro Giuliani in the Boije online collection and fell in love with the piece.
In this photo I am gluing the peghead to the neck shaft. It is a simple butt joint and it will be reinforced with a dovetailed key, this is one time I will pull out my Porter-Cable router. I'll make the channel with a dovetail router bit, make the key on a table saw and glue the key in place.
Here is the wood that I am using to make the terz-Indian rosewood back and sides (I bought the wood from Allied Lutherie almost 10 years ago) and the top is Sitka spruce that I purchased from Alaska Specialty Woods. Believe it or not, the piece is from a 1A top.
Still waiting to see when I will be going to Rocky Mountain National Park. Weather has been gorgeous.
Oh, if anyone listens to NPR, maybe you have already heard about the Yosemite Valley Post Office getting a face lift with new sugar pine shingles. I was lead carpenter on that project, Nick G. and I put the last shingle on at 4pm on Groundhog Day. I will post some photos soon, the post office looks great!
wilson,
ReplyDeletethe terz' sounds intriguing. a bit like having one's cake and eating it too.
I corresponded a few weeks ago with a young fellow in Dallas who was all hot to reinvent the fretted instrument; what he had in mind, it sounded like, was an unholy combination of a baritone guitar with a harp-guitar and maybe that oddball transverse-mounted-harmonics-n-drone-string thing made by someone for John McLaughlin some many years ago. My correspondent, referred to me by an old college friend, is a scientifically-precocious high schooler who is mad about the physics of instruments...but I counselled him that instruments full of divergent possibilities end up, like the giant-economy-size swiss army knives, left on the shelf in favor of more manageable tools.
Played a little Lanikai tenor the other day. Had on-board electronics, a single cutaway (!) and came from the box properly set up, assembled well and at a stinker of a low price. Ah, chinese labor--such wonders it makes possible. Didn't like the spruce top on it, which may stamp me as an old fuddy-duddy; make mine mahogany or koa, please.
so, any word on your eastward move?