CJ Acoustic Music will exhibit a number of GammelGura in their stand at Fuzz Guitar Show 14 in Gothenburg 10-11 May! Some old ones including a Levin parlor from 1917 and a small parlor converted to a terz guitar (neck has been shortened). All GG are unique and no two are alike, but here is an opportunity to try…
A special mandolin came in for bandaging. Also made a hatch for the drawbar that was missing. A little tricky with strips on the fretboard, you have to pinch off small pieces of pliers on the straps (the post on the T-forming strap) at the ends. Luckily I have a special tool 🙂 Nice home-made mandolin!
Continues with the 8 GGs. All ribs are in place, the necks have their carbon fiber rods and the tuning screw holes plugged and re-drilled. The first two have had stables glued and K&K mics fitted. There will be a bottom gluing a day in the future, use fish glue for the bottom which takes 12 hours to dry. Have only one jig and far too few…
Took a few days to fix with the rolls, but here are some pictures on the next batch. In the pictures, the throats have got their carbon fiber rod and the bodies have cracked. Now almost finished gluing the ribs in both the bottom and body, it is moving forward.
Got home my 38 kilo roller polisher. Built a stable roller shutter to mount it on, got a half cubic meter cabinet on the purchase. Have tried a bit and it works great for thinning down thick bottoms and giving various pieces of wood the right dimensions (stables, fretboards, moldings, ribs etc). Will make life easier in the future, but I still like the hand tools best! …
