Old School

 

Quite literally.... I'm building a couple guitars from an old school.

First, the current "beauty shots"...   looking like a guitar now.  The bridge is the last major piece I need to make.

Banks School District is tearing down its High School and building a new one.  They didn't want to see it all just bulldozed and hauled away to the dump, they asked the community if they wanted any of the pieces and parts.  I don't live in Banks, but I do run their networks. In discussion with Banks, I offered to build some guitars and donate them back to the district.   

I think I have enough to build a dreadnought for the HS, an L-OO for the MS, and a tenor uke for the ES.

On the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, the HS Principle met me at the half-torn-down building and we pulled out as several prime old-growth, ~100 year seasoned Douglas Fir boards.  Here is a photo of the room the boards came from, mostly from the inside of the closet.  My haul is stacked on the floor.

This board has "Peterson + Waale - Bank Ore" written on it:

I'm starting with a dreadnought.  Both the top and back are four piece.

Here is top braced and voiced + the back glued to the sides & lightly stained to make the grain pattern pop:

More to come!