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Kinnaird Brothers
2005/ 2006 Collaboration Guitar
Project Page
Steve Kinnaird and John Kinnaird join forces this year to make an All American OM guitar. All the woods will be from the United States. The body will be Claro Walnut from the West Coast. The neck will be Black Walnut from the East Coast (more or less) The binding will be curly maple, the fingerboard and bridge and peghead overlay will be Desert Ironwood from the Southwestern States. Top wood will be Adirondack Spruce. We will use Waverley tuners. Nut and saddle will be made of bone that we occasionally find while walking around in a pasture in Texas.
This should be an incredible instrument whose conception and birth will be recorded in pictures in this web page section.
Walnut plates for the back of the guitar
Same walnut with a little alcohol on one side to help show color and pop the curl out.
Two possible fingerboard selections. Desert Ironwood top two samples. Texas ebony bottom two samples. Straight ebony in center for comparison. We have not decided whether to use the Desert ironwood or the Texas Ebony.
closer view of the same two options
The top (Adirondack) being glued together at Steve's shop
walnut back glued together.
four tops from same flitch of sitka. All four show slightly different densities and different resistance to deflection. Uniformity is out the window. Everything gets tested
Brace Stock
rough braces from the stock
deflection testing
Steve's shop
clamping the first layer of heel block
first layer of heel block awaiting the next layers
ccompleted heelblock with transverse grain laminated in to avoid splitting.
Beginning top sequence..here a ring of walnut burl (to match the back and sides) has been cut out using a dremmel router.
Groove for the ring is being cut out with dremmel router
ring installed
inner ring of abalone and purfling installation. groove has been cut with router. The groove has been coated with shellac to keep purfling color from bleeding into top
inner ring completed
repeating the sequence for the outer ring
finished rosette
top cut to shape
Braceing stencil laid over top. Cutouts in stencil position bracing marks
bracing pattern drawn on top
gluing on the braces using go-bar deck and arched gluing form
Bracing pattern in final form, await carving.
The top braces have been carved to final shape
Different view of brace profiles