Making Slots in a Classical Guitar Peghead
When I was a boy my father had horses, over a hundred of them, some of them rank, and I sat them well.
Mark Spragg, Where Rivers Change Direction, 1999
Was looking at my last post, I love stirring the pot.
I cleaned my workbench after breakfast, but it didn't stay clean for long. I worked on making the slots in the peghead for a copy of a Hernandez y Aguado guitar (earlier post of rosette in redwood top). I drilled out holes at either end of the slot and cut out the remainder with a coping saw.
I forgot that I could use the vise jaws to help me file the edges of the slots true and square, I wish I had remembered it earlier. Once everything is finally sanded I need to do some carving and texturing to make the peghead look like this:
Mark Spragg, Where Rivers Change Direction, 1999
Was looking at my last post, I love stirring the pot.
I cleaned my workbench after breakfast, but it didn't stay clean for long. I worked on making the slots in the peghead for a copy of a Hernandez y Aguado guitar (earlier post of rosette in redwood top). I drilled out holes at either end of the slot and cut out the remainder with a coping saw.
I forgot that I could use the vise jaws to help me file the edges of the slots true and square, I wish I had remembered it earlier. Once everything is finally sanded I need to do some carving and texturing to make the peghead look like this:
Wilson, that's a good idea, I hate it when I think of the right way after I've already done the hard way.
ReplyDeleteThe peghead is coming along beautifully.
ReplyDeleteI often go to the vise as an afterthought, having exhausted my anatomical work-holding options - filed my fingers or chiselled my knee!