Today was the second day of work. The build and how... kind of absurd it is has caught a few people off guard, most people are building fairly stock standard acoustics, which don't get me wrong are really nice, but the extra complexity in my plans have been catching a bit of attention haha.
So I got my piece of Jarrah today for the top. There was 3 bookmatched pairs to choose from, and well it basically came down to "which looks more figured" so yeah... It was actually fairly easy to catch this figuring on camera, I expected it to show a little less, because while it's definitely there, it's not amazingly striking right now, but of course it will come out much more after it's been worked with.
Aaand plenty big enough for the body.
I also got my slab of Mahogany!! It's much lighter than I expected too. It should have a bit of ribbon figuring through it, as there's 2 other guitars at the workshop that have come from the same piece of tree, and they've got some nice figuring in them. I need to remember to get pictures of them next time I head in there now that I mention it.
Pretty dirty and messy for now but hey that's how it all starts!!
Unfortunately, it's not going to be the "one-piece" dream. Not quite. The long story-short is that it would be less stable in the middle of the guitar, and be at risk of splitting and etc down the line, so for stability's sake, we're splitting it down the middle, and flipping the pieces around. And as you can see, it's much nicer on the inside!
And more in the next post because I can only attach 5 pictures to one post.