Julia's Guitar, A Copy of a 1933 Santos Hernandez Guitar
I started back at my regular day job 2 weeks ago, I've spent it working on the flat lands at Walden Ponds . As I say, any time I spend away from the mountains is time wasted. I finally got a chance to finish binding Julia's guitar, a copy of a guitar made by Santos Hernandez in 1933. I did some research on the internet looking for images of guitars that he made after 1921 and before his death in 1943 to get a better idea of how he "trimmed" out a guitar. Here is my interpretation of what I learned. On some of his guitars Santos used a very wide maple purfling. This makes for a very bold look. He also made a heel cap from the same wood as the bindings. I used ebony bindings on this guitar and used ebony and maple for the heel cap to make the binding theme. A photo of gluing on the heel cap. You would be surprised at the amount of stress a guitar receives while it is being made! It gets all covered with glue, my hand slips when the binding tape bre