Last Update: 10/19/15
Guitar for Bob Georgiev
Model: Lattice Guitar
Specifications:
| Santos Rosewood for back and sides. | |
| Internal frame. | |
| Laminating the sides. | |
| Removing one of the sides from laminating mold. | |
| Pair of sides complete. | |
| Sides. | |
| Glueing the soundboard halves. | |
| Soundboard ready for rosette. | |
| Rosette inlaid and soundhole cut. Top thickness sanded ready for bracing. | |
| Making the frame. | |
| Making the frame. Neck pocket. | |
| Carbon fiber "A" frame reinforcement and neck pivot. | |
| Carbon fiber "A" frame. Ready for sides. | |
| Bass sides glued onto frame. | |
| Making the lattice bracing. | |
| Carbon fiber reinforcement. | |
| Sanding lattice to fit soundboard arching. | |
| Gluing the head onto neck. | |
| Baljak tuning machines. | |
| Tuners in the head. | |
| Neck ready for heel block and frets. | |
| Vacuum clamping balsa lattice and carbon fiber | |
| Shaping the lattice. | |
| Making the bridge. | |
| Capping the lattice with 6k carbon fiber tow. | |
| Gluing the bridge. | |
| Soundboard ready to glue to body. | |
| Ready to glue the top on. | |
| Freq.=103 Hz Oct 2 G# |
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| Freq.=145 Hz Oct 3 D |
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| Freq.=189 Hz Oct 3 F# |
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| Freq.=253 Hz Oct 3 B |
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| Freq.=297 Hz Oct 4 D |
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| Freq.=507 Hz Oct 4 B |
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| Freq.=605 Hz Oct 5 D# |
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| Freq.=667 Hz Oct 5 E |
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| Freq.=745 Hz Oct 5 F# |
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| Freq.=831 Hz Oct 5 G# |
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| Testing set up. Back clamped on. Tone generator and speaker. Salt sprinkled on the top for mode patterns. | |
| Body complete. Final sanding | |
| Final sanding. | |
| The back and sides. | |
| Applying the finish. | |
| Final coat ready to buff out | |
| Buffing out the finish. | |
| Body complete. | |
| Neck buffed out. | |
| Baljak tuners. | |
| Tuners installed. Ready to attach neck to body. | |
| Strung up and ready for set up. | |
| Hoffeee custom carbon fiber case. | |
| Hoffee case. | |
| Guitar ready to pack and ship. | |
| The back. | |
| End graft. | |
| End graft. | |
| Baljak tuners. | |
| Top view. | |
| Matte finish on soundboard. Very thin seal coats of finish. | |
| Macassar ebony armrest. | |

