[QUOTE=crazymanmichael] russ
once again i'm impressed with the work i see on the forum.
could you explain how you have joined you back.
looking at the shot of the back befor gluing to the sim, it seems a straitforward backstripe inlay or, alternatively, the backstripe has been used to join the two halves of the back.
but when i look at the inside photo of the back glued to the rim there is the pale central stripe and no sigh of the coloured stripe on the outside. i'm just puzzled. [/QUOTE]
Michael,
On this guitar, I joined the Sapele pieces for the back, and when they were dry and sanded to approximate thickness, I routed a furrow for the back stripe (this backstripe is bloodwood with purfling, with ebony on either side) partially through the back and glued the backstripe into the furrow.
Then I thickness sanded the back so the backstripe was level, and then thicknessed (again on the thickness sander) it from the "inside".
The strip you see on the inside of the guitar is a cross-grained spruce reinforcement which is slotted to take the x-braces. The backstripe would not show on the inside even if the spruce strip was not there, since the "furrow" does not go all the way through the back.
Hope that is clear....it's easier to do than to explain.:)
Thanks for the compliment, I appreciate it!
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