NIEUWE WEBSITE: LOPEZGITAARBOUW.NL
Een kleine gitaar met een groots geluid! Bijna 2 jaar heb ik aan deze gitaar gewerkt.
Het moment dat de snaren er op gingen en het eerste geluid uit dit gitaartje kwam was dan ook overweldigend…
Ik had de snaren er alleen nog maar op gezet om de topkam en het zadel af te stellen etc.
maar kon niet meer stoppen met spelen én lachen… van oor tot oor!
Specs:
Tuning: G-C-F-A#-D-G
Back and sides: Walnut
Top: Port Orford Red Ceder
Neck: Flamed Maple / Walnut
Fingerboard: Ebony, 16″ radius, 13th. frets clear to the body, 19 in total
Scale length: 55,50 cm (21,85″)
Nut Width: 44,2 mm (1,74″)
Turners: Gotoh 510
Strings: Elixir Phosphor Bronze 012-053
K&K Pure Mini Pickup (Gold Strap Button – not in the pictures yet)
Body length: 39,2 cm (15,35″)
Upper bout: 22,1 cm (8,66″)
Waist: 18,7 cm (7,48″)
Lower bout: 29,15 cm (11,42″)
Overall length: 84,8 cm (33,46″)
Depth at tail block: 10 cm (3,94″)
Depth at heel: 8 cm (3,15″
Headstock veneers: front: Coromandel, back: flamed Maple
Fotoboek:
In het atelier…
The building proces:
- Joining the top
- Port Orford Red Cedar
- Shooting board
- Walnut
- Walnut roset
- Bracing the top
- Bracing the back
- Shaping…
- Back and top ready!
- Joining the neck woods
- Flamed maple / walnut
- Coromandel wood
- Beautiful figured Coromandel
- MOP logo inlay
- AL, Arnaldo Lopez
- Cutting the fretslots
- Making the 16″ radius
- More sanding needed…
- The frets are hide-glued and pressed in.
- Glueing back veneer on headstock
- Side dots, 2mm!
- Top veneer on headstock
- Spanish heel
- reaming…
- Glueing the top to the neck
- Left,… the first guitar I made!
- On the solera!
- Walnut for the sides
- Shaping the sides
- Sides in shape
- Glueing the curved linings
- You can never have enough clamps!
- Signing the guitar before closing the box!
- Side braces
- Side braces glued
- Tracing the outside of the guitar to the back with a ‘luthiers’ pencil
- A coat of Shellac to the inside of the guitar
- Labelled!
- Ready to close the box
- temporary piece of wood to keep the back secure during glueing
- The nail keeps it from moving during glueing
- Clamps, clamps, clamps…
- Flamed maple with b/w/b purfling
- Endcraft made of flamed maple
- Cutting the rebates for the side purflings
- Fully mitered endcraft!