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Here are some of the major parts all unfinished: neck, top with some of the hardware and wormy maples sides. In pictures below, you will see better views of the modified Spanish footer. The footer has ledges inset on each side to accept the 2mm thick maple sides. No bolt on, no dove tail neck. The footer is built from stacked segments of the neck stock and carved before gluing to the sides and top.
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| Full length view from the tail end. Top still missing soundholes, pickups and other electrionic hardware. Fingerboard will come after these parts are joined. Sides not in position for this picture. |  |
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Close up of the heel on the modified Spanish footer. Note curly maple stripe up the middle of the heel sandwiched between walnut veneeer and bookmatched mahogany. |
| Here's the footer with view to the inside with unfinished top and back. Masking tape holds end cuts from the sides in place to help with accuracy of cutting the inset where the sides will glue to the footer. |  |
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Here's the acoustic chamber, again with unfinished top and back. Note the footer at left. Note the two maple posts aligned under the Bigsby B5 tail piece and tremolo. This fixes the ends of the strings to the body of the guitar while the top is otherwise free, especially the bridge. The two posts are inset/inlayed into the underside of the top...just in case...if the glue should ever fail, the posts will not be able to shift out from under the tail piece. The other Bigsby tail piece products (B6 and B7) were too long for this small body guitar. The B5 is designed for solid body guitars. |
| The back almost finish sanded. Curly, wormy, spalted red maple. From the same board that I built my first archtop semi-hollow in 1998-2000. (Full Sized guitar from 2000) I did a much better job managing the book match on DragonHart. I have wood for one more archback from the same board. |  |
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This is risky, but here's your first look at the head with rosewood faceplate. Ignore the masking tape serving to help me keep a constant centerline. Going to need it for the inlay work, probably some scrimshaw, to come. |