How I Make A Concert Stella Steel String Acoustic Guitar
The body of the little “concert” size Stella copy is together, I am getting ready to glue on the bindings. Once the bindings are done then I can start fitting the neck to the body. I wanted to share some photos of how I assembled the body. The top is Lutz spruce. The brace under the bridge, the sound hole and upper bout grafts are scrap pieces of Engelmann spruce from my wood cache. I used my Roarockit Thin Air Press vacuum bag to glue all the pieces on top of a work board that is scooped out under the bridge to help dome the top. Six years ago, I made an outside mold/work board to make one of my guitars and I disliked the thing so much I sent it to the local dump. With this guitar I made a work board that is based upon the one you will find in Roy Courtnall’s book, Making Master Guitars. Unlike Courtnall’s work board, the dished solera is removable. The “L” blocks are held in place by carriage bolts, the blocks help keep the sides at right angles to the sound board. This photo sh...
