Anyone in the Minneapolis area who can sand my parlor guitar top and back to proper thickens for me?
A few months ago I decided to stop building guitars and stick to only banjos. The last guitar I built was a parlor size of walnut and cedar that had so many errors and screw ups built into it that I would have been embarrassed to have my name on it out in the world, so it wound up like this:
But it's been haunting me and I want to try one last time for a nice walnut parlor. So I bought a partial kit on eBay. After I decided to quit guitar making, I sold all my wood and jigs to some guys at the RedWing Luthier school. Then I sold my drum sander.
I should have had the kit guy sand the top and back. Now I'm questioning my ability to use a hand plane and sand paper to get the thickness where they should be.
So, anyone in my area who will do the thicknessing for some cash or rent me an hour on their drum sander? No big hurry on this. I plan to do the box building in the dry winter months.