" #1004 Sounds like main lining Lavender Feels"

- Craig S.

 

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Scheduled Start Date: Mar 04, 2013
Completed: Mar 26, 2013

  • Pau Rosa back & sides

  • Bearclaw Sitka Spruce top

  • Maple body binding

  • No rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Maple fretboard with Maple binding & No markers

  • Port Orford Cedar neck

  • Peghed brand geared tuners

  • Solid Wood Headplate to Match Body

  • K&K Twin Spot pickup

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

 

Wood Grade: Master
Wood Availability: Very limited quantity availble.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

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Front

Full Front
Owner Pics & Instrument Videos

Bearclaw Sitka Spruce/Pau Rosa

Super Soprano Classic
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Mar 4

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Mar 5

glue in tail block

3

Mar 6

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

4

Mar 7

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Mar 11

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Mar 12

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

7

Mar 13

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Mar 14

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Mar 18

first coat of oil

10

Mar 19

second coat of oil

11

Mar 20

third coat of oil

12

Mar 21

fourth coat of oil

13

Mar 25

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

Mar 26

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