Instrument details: Ewan MacDonald - Steel string acoustic guitar

Joining the front - we use a few different methods and jigs for joining the front and back plates at the school. This one uses wedges to apply pressure on the join.

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Planing the rosette flush with the front

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A back strengthening strip is glued along the inside of the back join

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Carving the heel

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Side bending is done on a hot iron

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Fitting the holly bindings

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A traditional way to stain mahogany is to use potassium dichromate which reacts with the tannin that naturally occurs in some woods...

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The potassium gives a lovely reddish golden colour in the sunlight!

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The tuner holes are cleaned out after finishing with a reamer

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The back of the headstock

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Ewan with his finished guitar

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Ewan's completed instrument

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