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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 Profile with spindle shaper
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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