Flaws

Finishing

Moby guitar Inlay

Working on the headstock inlay for the Moby guitar.


This is cheater MOP, so thin you can cut it with a knife or scissors, but so thin it needs a backer so the background color does not show through.

French polish

 The covered pad used to apply shellac.




Inside the pad is a square of wool sewn up with cotton balls stuffed inside.



To apply, drops of shellac are injected inside the wool pad until it is slightly moist on the bottom.  The cotton cover is wrapped around it.  The shellac is applied by wiping the surface to be finished with long, fast strokes.

Terrawhistle Kermodie left handed cutaway on Ebay

Sycamore

A couple of classical guitars to be built from sycamore for the backs and sides.  The sycamore lumber was part sapwood and part heartwood.  I sawed the planks to make one set of sapwood and one set of heartwood.
The light colored set will have an Englemann spruce top and the dark colored set will have an Alpine Western red cedar top from Mario DaCosta. 
From left to right, spruce brace wood, Spanish cedar for necks, Englemann, sycamore sapwood, sycamore heartwood, red cedar top.
I have a mahogany guitar in the works, but I can go ahead and resaw and thickness the sycamore and sticker it up so it has time to settle while the mahogany guitar is being finished up.
I also have a half dozen guitars to inlay and put a finish on.