New and Improved "Gold Thread" build

[Glen DeRusha]

Today Henry and I, are building a guitar. And we thought we would share some progress pictures with everyone.

We call it the Gold Thread.

It will be a spruce over walnut, 12 fret, 000.

Here is the top.







And here is Henry helping with the side bending.





Stay tuned. More to come soon.

Glen

[lotech]

Thanks for the pictures, Glen, I like seeing this kind of stuff.

When you get a chance, could you tell us what's going on in the first picture with Henry, and what the contraption with the light bulbs is?

[Glen DeRusha]

The thing with the light bulbs is a fox style, side bender. It works kind of like the Easy Bake Oven that my sister used to have. Here it is closed up with a side in it.



Glen

[Rhapsody]

I don't know much about guitars, Glen, but as an educator, I know a lot about kids. Henry is adorable! Apparently, you make good things....

[rebelrouser]

Hi Glen,

Now this is the kinda thing many of us can get into! Thanks for sharing Henry's and your guitar project with us. I can't wait for more of your great pics of your Gold Thread's progress!

SpruceTop

[Glen DeRusha]

Sept 27, 2008 7:08:49 GMT -5 Rhapsody said:

Henry is adorable!

Thank you!

We like the little guy too! Here is one of our videos. The first 20 seconds is Henry. The rest is just guitar binding stuff. We have a lot of fun together.

luthiertube.com/mediadetails.php?key=2448b7df4775c5479fbe

Glen

[Rhapsody]

Awwwwww......

Thank you! I'm impressed---with both of you!!

[steves]

Why is it called the Gold Thread?

[Glen DeRusha]

The Gold Thread is the name my wife gave it. The 000 is a thread that tied in the time frame transition from classical guitars to the modern 14 fret, skinny necked, dreadnoughts. And we used gold abalone on the first one.

Glen

[Glen DeRusha]

We need to make some kerfing.





We have our friend Steve working on his bass. He's building a mock up bass to get all of his parts working before he does the real deal.



And in the mean time, we have Henry working on a "Top Secret" project.





Glen

[folkstrum]

Cool, Glen!! My wife wants to "rent yer kid" for the summer. Yeah--he'll learn a lot about luthery here...NOT!!

Love the pix. Keep 'em coming! ;D

[lindaloo]

Oct 14, 2008 19:37:29 GMT -5 folkstrum said:

Cool, Glen!! My wife wants to "rent yer kid" for the summer.

He's such a cutie...I could squeeze him until his eyes pop out!! ;D

[folkstrum]

How's that "Gold" build coming, Glen?? Any new guitars in progress? (Sue wants to see more of Henry, too!! )

[Glen DeRusha]

Hi Norm,

The Gold Thread is on the back burner right now. I have a project that I "have" to finish first. This should be in another build thread but, we will have to get to that later. Here is the top to it. Red Spruce top, with Red Spruce braces before and after carving. It sounds pretty good so far.





I tap tune my tops with a tuning fork. Like in this long video of the original Gold Thread.

luthiertube.com/video/210/000-w

And here is Henry playing Steve's mock up bass. Steve's bass is a multi scale. That is why the frets look crooked.



Thanks for checking in on me.

Glen

[Glen DeRusha]

Here we are teaching Henry how to put an arm bevel on a guitar.



Remember, you saw it here on The Wharf first.

Glen