Yesterday I closed the guitar was working on by glueing the back, back on its back side.
I didn't take images of it because there are certain things I'm not so proud of, not so savvy, ugly looking or very clumsy at.
So today I started painting a bit of the guitar body and I needed to make a new bridge. Because you know the old one was plastic and couldn't be really glued , at least not in the long term.
So I found this block of wood... I'm not sure what it is. I've used similar in the past for bridges or fretboard. People name it Guayacán, but I doubt those popular names here because we are thousands of kilometres away from the rainforest they come and those names tend to be generalisations of, let's say "dark wood". And whenever it's reddish in colour they tend to name it "quebracho" even though there are a few species, more or less hard woods that are red and come from the same area of the country.
Anyway let's then say it's a piece of Guayacán. Very hard wood and with time it turns black-ish.
I read the fibers and splitted it with a hammer and the axe head. This way I worked it to obtain a quartersawn piece.
And then layed the measurements of the former bridge to keep sawing and carvin. Entertaining tasks!
There is a whole mess in the workshop now. Even there is a soup my little son prepared me with things he found.
And Im glueing now a little splinter that shouldn't have been splitted from the bridge.
I do make mistakes, a lot. I try to cover them up and fix them.
And I also try to not post them on Nostr.
Would you like to see more of them?
More in general?
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