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Scheduled Start Date: Jul 07, 2014
Completed: Jul 23, 2014

  • Black & White Ebony back & sides

  • Bearclaw Sitka Spruce top

  • Ebony body binding

  • Black wood rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Ebony fretboard with Ebony binding & Special Inlay markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Geared machine head tuners with black buttons

  • Ebony & Maple Signature Headplate

  • K&K Twin Spot pickup

Hand-crafted in the USA by Gordon & Char Mayer and Aaron Keim. Each instrument is numbered & signed.

 

Wood Grade: Specialty
Wood Availability: This wood is temporarily available. Quantity is very limited.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

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Black & White Ebony/Bearclaw Sitka Spruce

Baritone Classic
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Jul 1

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Jul 2

glue in tail block

3

Jul 4

rout & glue-in end graft, kerf top edge, kerf bottom edge, brace back

4

Jul 4

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

Jul 7

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

Jul 8

clean up body, rout dovetail, drill tuner holes, glue fretboard onto neck, rout binding channels, glue in top binding

7

Jul 10

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

Jul 10

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

Jul 14

first coat of oil

10

Jul 15

second coat of oil

11

Jul 16

third coat of oil

12

Jul 19

fourth coat of oil

13

Jul 21

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

Jul 22

make saddle, (put in pickup, if any), cut nut, final fretwork, put in tuners, put on strings
Original Wood Set