Working Dog Guitars - Hand Crafted Originals

Work in progress

Caleb's Guitar: An OM guitar in the style of an early D18 Martin.  The guitar uses native Australian recycled tone wood back and sides (Tasmanian Blackwood) and a North American Spruce top.  The rest of the guitar will be built using native species such as 90 year old Jarrah, and recycled Queensland Maple.

The brief was simple.  Other than the sound board, everything else had to be recycled tone wood, including an native Olive fingerboard.

Pricing
Carving the braces to promote sustain and the desired tap-tone (to my ears).
End graft is Blackwood heart wood.  Binding is QLD Maple.
Native Olive fingerboard.  Reclaimed from a scrap of wood donated years ago.  It's surprisingly hard. Blackwood sap-wood headstock. Yet to be bound.
Blackwood sides harvested from a fallen tree in the Otway (Joh Gabs farm).
Blackwood sides.
Tap Tone Response of soundboard connected to the sides.  Very promising low and mids response.
Gluing the braces and tone bars.
X-Brace in place.
Three panel back with braces: 90 year old Jarrah, Blackwood, Jarrah.
Soundboard rough sanded and to be fine sanded prior to the finish coats, all 12 of them.
Sides and soundboard in place.
Final brace carving tap-tone response prior to sound board fine sanding.  Note the low frequency response.