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Scheduled Start Date: Jun 04, 2012
Completed: Jun 29, 2012

  • Straight-Grain Redwood top, back & sides

  • Ebony body binding

  • Black wood rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Ebony fretboard with Ebony binding & Abalone markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Geared machine head tuners with black buttons

  • Ebony & Maple Signature Headplate

  • K&K Twin Spot pickup

Hand-crafted in the USA by Gordon & Char Mayer and Aaron Keim. Each instrument is numbered & signed.

 

Wood Grade: Classic
Wood Availability: Sorry, this wood is no longer available.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

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Front

Full Front
Owner Pics & Instrument Videos

Redwood

Tenor Classic
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Jun 4

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Jun 5

glue in tail block

3

Jun 7

rout & glue-in end graft, kerf top edge, kerf bottom edge, brace back

4

Jun 11

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Jun 12

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Jun 12

clean up body, rout dovetail, drill tuner holes, glue fretboard onto neck, rout binding channels, glue in top binding

7

Jun 18

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Jun 19

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Jun 20

first coat of oil

10

Jun 21

second coat of oil

11

Jun 23

third coat of oil

12

Jun 27

fourth coat of oil

13

Jun 29

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

  

14

Jun 29

make saddle, (put in pickup, if any), cut nut, final fretwork, put in tuners, put on strings
Original Wood Set