The Amazon Rosewood Back Plates

We prepared the back plates for joining and in the process salvaged enough wood to have a bookmatched headplate. We need to clean up the joint before gluing.

Tom's guitar in progress

Back and sides are Ambrosia Maple. He bought a bound and inlayed fretboard for it.

Dennis D's bass ukes

He wanted to know if we noticed that the strings on the through-neck uke had uneven gain when amplified. We did.

Scarf Joint for Neck Headstock

We cut the scarf joint, thicknessed the headstock piece to 1/2" (final headstock thickness will be 5/8" with headplate and veneer), and glued the neck shaft and headstock pieces together.

Fretwork

Jack showed the tools and techniques he uses to clean up the fret ends.

Larry's guitar in progress

Being built from various piece of wood laying around the shop. The top is pieced together from a 2x4.

Robbie's Gibson

It's a Gibson CE I've used for years. We were discussing the fingerboard radius. Its flat like a classical guitar with a 1 3/4" width at the nut.

It has a Shadow pick up and pre amp.

Similar to a Les Paul i.e. solid mahogany body and neck with a spruce top. There are channels routed into the body under the top to produce a nice warm tone and lots of sustain when amplified.

We were also discussing the low neck profile with a slight "D" shape and the flat heal to facilitate playing in foreign territory-past the 12th fret. The neck profile is close to the G4V guitar (background) in the photo.