Applecaster
Built from larch and apple harvested from the rayogram woodlot
Browse the gallery below, or click here to see the story of how this guitar came to be.
Slicing the apple ▸
Five 1/2" slices ▸
Laying out the body ▸
Hardware layout test ▸
Larch, meet apple ▸
Cavities routed, nice and neat ▸
F-hole cut, testing the top in place ▸
Clamping the top to the body ▸
Body glued, shaped ▸
Cutting the top cavities ▸
Edge routed for binding ▸
Gluing the binding ▸
Filling the edge gaps with epoxy ▸
Edge sanded, jack hole drilled ▸
Three coats of water-based polyurethane ▸
Bolting on the hardware, and soldering the electronics ▸
Pickguard ▸
