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Side bending jig

Bent cutaway side

East Indian Rosewood sides in building mold

Clamping linings to the sides

End graft routing jig

3 side sets in molds

2 finished sides 15" and 16" guitar

Cut out soundhole

Spruce back braces

Clamping braces to the soundboard with Go-bars

Clamping guitar back

Oracle 16 Bearclaw Sitka Spruce top and figured Hawaiian Koa back and sides

Oracle 15 guitar body construction

Binding rebates around droptop armrest

Bindings and purflings

Ooh its winter at the shop- still building

Binding ready to be glued onto guitar

Oracle 15 acoustic guitar

Vacuum clamping veneer on rear access panel

Guitar Neck profiling fixtures

Neck tennon routing jig

Gluing the ears on the headstock

Routing headstock

Carving guitar neck

Scraping the bindings level

Custom made Karl Holtey, Norris reproduction smoothing plane

hand planes

Grain filling

Guitar body - lacquer buffed to a high gloss

Luthier Shop

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