Travel Guitar Build - Part 1

Documenting building a pair of Trekker travel Guitars from scratch. Links for the tools, book reference, and guitar plans: Bench Dog Tools No. 4 and 60-1/2 Hand Planes https://amzn.to/3vyRRXs Making an Archtop Guitar by Robert Benedetto https://amzn.to/3rRca02 Gyokucho Razorsaw 9-1/2" Double Edge (Ryoba) for Hardwoods - best saw decision that improved precision: https://amzn.to/30I699P Hibdon Hardwoods https://www.hibdonhardwood.com/collec... Trekker travel guitar plans - the original plan has a 25 1/2 inch scale. I modified it to a 27-inch scale for baritone guitar. https://www.harpkit.com/trekker-guita... Neck Angle Calculator http://www.tundraman.com/Guitars/Neck... As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I'm building these two Trekker Travel guitars with various woods I have around the shop. Mahogany, ash, granadillo, cedar, and walnut. I got the granadillo set from Hibdon Hardwoods. These are the third and fourth guitars I'm building from scratch. My first was a disaster and didn't survive being finished. My second Travel guitar is a left-handed model. There are a few shots of it in the video. It's quite loud with a banjo-like punchy tone. I found out that slowing down gave me better results. It tunes up ok and stays in tune. Now I need to learn to play left-handed. I modified my design with a 2-degree neck angle, a 27” scale, a taller bridge, and an arch-top style tailpiece. Part One of the Travel Guitar build includes the following parts of the process: preparing the neck headstock scarf joint neck angle tail block headstock ears prepping the top plate cutting out top So fun, I have ideas to improve the guitar design for builds 5 and 6. The things you learn along the way just make the next project better. Keep on Rocking and we’ll talk later, -Ray