Brackett Instruments
Handmade acoustic guitars
Grover NC
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Joined Back still clamped |
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End Blocks clamped |
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Installing kerfing |
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Walnut and Abalone Rosette |
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Installing x-braces with Hot Hide Glue |
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Maple End Wedge |
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Back and unshaped braces |
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Top with unshaped Adi Spruce braces |
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Slotted Rosewood Fingerboard |
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Installing top |
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Waiting for back |
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Installing back |
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Body 1 |
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Body 2 |
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Body 3 |
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Body 4 |
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Body and other parts |
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Back with Maple binding |
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More Maple binding |
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Dovetail, FB mortise, top binding |
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Headstock inlay, fingerboard is taped on only |
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Fitted neck temporarly installed |
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unshaped neck and back |
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sealed back |
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Headstock |
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Headstock Fingerboard |
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body-neck-rough shaped bridge |
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body-neck-endpin |
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finished, not buffed top |
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Finished, not buffed back |
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fingerboard inlays |
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fingerboard inlays2 |
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carving neck |
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carving neck2 |
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Carving neck3 |
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unpolished bridge |
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finished neck |
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HS inlay |
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Finished guitar 1 |
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Finished guitar 2 |
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Finished guitar 3 |
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Finished guitar 4 |
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We're working on a guitar for our friend "shadowraptor", a fellow member of the Acoustic Guitar forum. The guitar was started in Feburary 2009, shipped on May 26 2009 and received in Canada on June 5 2009. Here's what "shadowraptor" had to say after receiving the guitar. Click on the pictures for a larger view
Hi Woody ....
She's here in perfect condition! I am so excited I can hardly type. First thoughts:
1. She is absolutely gorgeous.
2. She is light (about 1/2 of what my FG-730S weighs).
3. She is easy to play fingerstyle - easier than all of my other instruments.
4. She sounds incredible.
Thanks very, very much to both you and your wife for making this for me.
