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Scheduled Start Date: Apr 12, 2012
Completed: May 22, 2012

  • Walnut back & sides

  • Port Orford Cedar top

  • Maple & Walnut Rope body binding

  • Rope rosette

  • Hand-rubbed oil finish

  • Radiused Ebony fretboard with Walnut binding & Abalone markers

  • Mahogany neck

  • Geared machine head tuners with amber buttons

  • Leopardwood & Maple Signature Headplate

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

 

Wood Grade: Classic
Wood Availability: This wood species is available. Specific wood sets vary.

Cascade Series Wood Cascade Series Wood

 

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Front

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Port Orford Cedar-topped Walnut

Tenor Classic
Build Schedule
 

Date

 

  

1

Apr 10

bend sides, glue in neck block

2

Apr 30

glue in tail block

3

May 1

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

4

May 3

brace top, glue back onto sides

5

May 4

glue top onto sides, prep fretboard & neck

6

May 7

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

7

May 8

shape neck, dress fret ends, glue in back binding

8

May 9

prep for finish, glue neck/fretboard onto body

9

May 10

first coat of oil

10

May 12

second coat of oil

11

May 15

third coat of oil

12

May 16

fourth coat of oil

13

May 21

apply lemon oil, glue on bridge

14

May 22

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