The Start of Something New

So, today was my first day of guitar-building at the Irish School of Luthrie. Duuuuude, it's only my first day and I'm hooked!! I spent a good 9 hours in the shop today and got a lot done!! I'm building two instruments for myself: a good ol' steel-string acoustic guitar, and an arch-top 10-string guitar-bodied bouzouki!! This blog will temporarily serve as the forum to keep ya'll updated on the progress of the two instruments as they're brought into this world. Hey, this blog is about me learning stuff, so I supposed it suits that I post my current learnings!

Today was a productive day!! I chose my woods to start: Englmann Spruce (top) and Indian Rosewood (back & sides) for the guitar; and Englmann Spruce (t) and Flamed Maple (b&s) for the guitar-bouzouki! I jointed the two pieces of the tops together today, as well as the maple back for the bouzouki. Probably the most tiring part of the day was 'thicknessing' the backs and sides in the thickness sander. Running em through a massive sander and checking them with a micrometer as I went a long to check the thickness, aiming for 2.4 and 2.2 millimeters. And I also glued the maple back of the guitar-bouzouki! Tomorrow I'll glue the rosewood back, and then see what I have to do next!! I'm diggin' this!!!!!