Cascade Series

 

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Scheduled Start Date: Jul 20, 2012
Completed: Aug 08, 2012

  • Red Maple top, back & sides

  • Walnut body binding

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Maple fretboard with Walnut binding & Leaf Inlay markers

  • Port Orford Cedar neck

  • Geared machine head tuners with amber buttons

  • Custom Signature Headplate

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

 

Wood Grade: Master
Wood Availability: Sorry, this wood is currently not available.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

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Quilted Red Maple

Tenor Resonator
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Jul 23

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Jul 23

glue in tail block, rout sound ports in top, install soundwell

3

Jul 24

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

4

Jul 25

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Jul 26

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Jul 26

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

7

Jul 30

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Jul 31

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Aug 1

first coat of oil

10

Aug 2

second coat of oil

11

Aug 6

third coat of oil

12

Aug 7

fourth coat of oil

13

Aug 8

apply lemon oil, setup cone & biscuit bridge (& pickup, if any)

14

Aug 8

final fretwork, cut nut, put in tuners, put on strings
Original Wood Set