I got a commission to carve up a guitar for a gentleman named Moon for fathers day by his kids; he has NO clue it's happening. I really hope he likes it. It wound up being another experiment; I wondered if I could, instead of carving up the top of the guitar as I've done in the past, carve up separate pieces of wood and inlay them into the guitar top. I leave it to y'all as to how successful the idea is, but the guitar does sound alright now that I'm done.
Since 'Luna' means moon, that 's the kind of guitar I told his daughter to get one of this brand and I'd carve it up. Cheaper alternative to building one from the ground up, yes?
So, here's where I started from:
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Then, I stripped the body of the guitar.
After that, I took some heavy paper and made up some templates to figured out where the shapes I wanted to be part of the final product needed to go. The stars I arranged in the shape of the 'Libra' constellation, which is his zodiac sign.
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I then cut stars out of a hunk of figured maple I had lying about, and the moon face was cut out of Maple, too, but the spalted kind.
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Since 'Luna' means moon, that 's the kind of guitar I told his daughter to get one of this brand and I'd carve it up. Cheaper alternative to building one from the ground up, yes?
So, here's where I started from:
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Then, I stripped the body of the guitar.
After that, I took some heavy paper and made up some templates to figured out where the shapes I wanted to be part of the final product needed to go. The stars I arranged in the shape of the 'Libra' constellation, which is his zodiac sign.
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I then cut stars out of a hunk of figured maple I had lying about, and the moon face was cut out of Maple, too, but the spalted kind.
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