Shop Photo's
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Bending East Indian Rosewood Sides. One is in the mold, the other is cooling in the bender. |
| The temperature must reach 310° F for the side to bend. |  |
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Sides are bent and placed into the outside mold to "set." The spreaders keep the sides from distorting while they are cooling. |
| A left-handed Small Jumbo in progress. Some call this stage the "boat." The assembly can live outside the mold now, as the back and kerfed linings maintain the guitar's shape. |  |
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The Small Jumbo is a new model for me, and I'm really pleased up to this point. The sound and volume of a Dreadnaught, but with nicer curves. It's a good all around guitar for flat or finger-picking, whether acoustic or amplified. |
| This is the last "Martin-style" headstock from Presnall Guitars. I've recently re-designed my headstock to something more elegant. Photos forthcoming. |  |
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Book-matched halves of Wenge in the gluing jig. |
| Gluing the back to the side assembly in the go-bar deck. Go-bars are actually ancient Chinese technology dating back thousands of years! |  |
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Gluing top to sides in go-bar deck. |
| Neck blank and Sapele Mahogany back glue-up. |  |
