The Herb Garden

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March to July 2001

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Having attended Mark Bailey's Build Your Own guitar course in 2000 I just HAD to go back and attempt a set neck instrument.

The body is constructed from a block of selected mahogony with a book-matched maple cap - deeply carved.

The neck and head are also hewn from a single block of mahogony. An offcut from the maple cap was book-matched and glued to the face of the headstock.

The fingerboard is ebony.

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Original concept

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I roughed up my original thoughts on the computer.

Blocks of wood

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Here is the single block of mahogony, the maple for the neck with the ebony already glued on (face down) and various neck jigs. The headstock and heel were drilled with an 8mm bit (only about 15mm deep at heel).

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During late August, early September 2000 I attended Mark Bailey's Build Your Own guitar course as an important birthday present and this the result!

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