Some pictures from the
workshop of the construction process,
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on the photos to enlarge................
Washington IV
What happens to all the left over timber that isn't big enough for customer guitars, build one for the boss! Apart from the top and the fingerboard, all of the wood used in this guitar is from the off-cuts bin.
Body timbers being glued together before being split to make a book matched pair.
Curly Maple top.
Neck lamination glued up.
Body cavity initial shaping. The bottom will be cut out and used as the cover.
body and neck glued together.
cavities in Maple top.
Matched halves.
Fingerboard fitting.
Stain applied.
Bookmatched headstock veneer.
First coat of lacquer applied.
Lucky
Ethos Guitars' first bass guitar
with highly personalised twelfth fret markers
Front side body showing "neck
through" and routing
Rear routing with the smallest amount of wood removed from the body to
retain as much tone as possible
Coronet
Headstock being shaped, routed and drilled
The body takes shape, once more as little wood removed as possible
The
Aphrodite
The first
Aphrodite underway
A lovely figured top and deep
control routing
Handshaped
upper and lower bouts make all the difference
Some addition of colour
Back with center stripe and control cavities. Note
the deep heel cutaway for easy upper fret access.
The
Washington
This is after initial body
shaping, and shows the intial
component fit to check tolerances
Bookmatched headstock facing
You can also see the smooth
recessed fit of the selector switch
and pots
The picture of the rear clearly
show the neck-through-body construction
and the excellent access to the upper frets.
There is no visible gap under
the knobs even when the pull switch is operated
The
Pumpkin
Neck Laminated
from Maple and Walnut. Headstock drilled for machine heads.
Hand Carved Spruce top made
from 2 matched wedges
The neck-through
body construction can be seen here with the Walnut
centre stripe visible through the pick-up cavities.
Head stock faced with book
matched Rosewood, single binding applied ready for scraping
Sides fitted
and top routed ready for binding.
Binding (made up from 3 separate
strips) now fitted and scraped to shape.
Book matched
Rosewood back with centre purfling.
Finished Rosewood back
Heel detail
showing the center stripe
More heel detail aslo showing
the depth of the binding
Painted and ready for polishing,
wiring and hardware.