Second Parlour Guitar Done

Parlour Guitar #2 is done.... Made with more traditional wood choices. Cedar & Indian Rosewood with a Mahogany neck & Rosewood Fingerboard.. I think it sounds a bit fuller than the Pacific Parlour but I am surprised at how close they do sound for radically different woods..

Here are a few more photos of the Pacific Parlour for comparison..

First One Done

Whew, the first of the two Parlour Guitars is done!... The one I'm calling a Pacific Parlour, because it's primary woods are all found close to the Pacific Ocean; Koa, Arbutus (Madrona) & Narra..

The first notes on it sound good, clean & mellow decent but not amazing sustain. I'll do some better photos on hopefully a sound sample soon..

Now just need to finish the other one..

Rosettes

The Pacific Parlour gets a figured Walnut rosette and the Cedar & Rosewood one gets a Spalted Maple rosette. My first time working with Spalted Maple pretty "punky" as they say but turned out ok.

Spalted Maple

cut out, it gets a thin black outline when installed

Walnut being glued up

Cut out, it will get a white/black/white purfling border

Joining the Tops & Backs

A quick plane on the shooting board and the top and back halves are ready to be glued together. Lots of ways to do this, I use a pretty simple jig of 4 sticks and 4 wedges and some rope.. Works for me.

Once joined they get rough thicknessed and you have tops and back to two Parlour Guitars.

The Pacific

Cedar & Rosewood - I ended up changing this top as it was just too thin.
It will have to be a Uke some day

Parlour Guitar(s)

I've had a Parlour Guitar idea in mind for a wile now and it's time to get started on it. I'm calling it a Pacific Guitar... Back & sides of Arbutus wood (Madrona to you Americans) and top of Koa, Neck will be Narra so all woods that border the Pacific Ocean..

Should be interesting.

Yesterday I started rough thicknessing with a safety planner (actually the new 6 bladed clone from Music Tools in Brazil).Tonight I finished that off with a hand plane.. whew, good workout thicknessing a top and back..

I'm also doing a more standard Parlour with a Indian Rosewood back & sides and a Western Red Cedar top and Spanish Cedar neck, but my arms are too tired to hand plane Rosewood tonight..

Oh and the new planer for Music Tools works very well!

New planer setup

With new table & hold downs

The old Stanley on the right works best for figured woods.
Think it cost me 20.00 plus a new blade.

Going to be a nice looking top when it is done

Good nights work