Molter Guitars

I have glued the back on the benign cutaway. I have also laminated the burl walnut onto the armrest. Just look at the figure on the ebony. This should be a beautiful guitar. I have also selected the mahogany for the neck.

Well it’s been a long time since I made a post. I have been trying my hand at furniture making. I have made a small secretary desk for my daughter. It came out pretty nice but I think I will stick to guitar making. I have begun construction on 2 spec guitars to display in a local art gallery/guitar shop. One guitar is a DCS bent sides model that will have quilted mahogany back and sides and a quilted maple top. I will most likely put a sunburst on this guitar but I will wait and see when I get to that point. The other spec. guitar will have rosewood back and sides and either a western red cedar top or 30+ year old redwood. This guitar will be 000 cutaway 8 string.  I am incorporating a beveled armrest in the benign cutaway model and depending on how it turns out I will most likely install armrests on the two spec. guitars.

Here are some amazing pictures of John’s guitar taken by my friend who is also a “Molter Guitar” owner. If you think his pictures are fantastic you should hear him play guitar. He is a very talented man.

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Well John finally here are some pics of the guitar with strings . You should be playing the guitar by sometime next week.

  Pretty soon I will begin a guitar for my favorite performing artist.  His music is so inspiring, meaningful, and incredible that he has been awarded several National awards, and been voted the Favorite artist in his genre multiple times. It will be an honor to build this guitar for him and hopefully he will play it all over the world and inspire others like he has inspired me.  Pictures coming soon.

Well John’s guitar has been buffed and had the bridge glued. I worked on the action today and from what I have played, the guitar sounds great.  John, I am pretty sure I have accomplished the sound you were looking for when you showed me the “other” guitar video. I will work on the electronics this weekend, work on the knobs and then clean it up and get it ready to ship.  I am also going to have a professional photographer take some pictures for the website.

I have put the final coats of  lacquer on the guitar. I have glued the neck and am letting the guitar harden before buffing. This guitar has such amazing 3d figure. I cant wait to string it up. I know John is really excited and ready to get his hands on this beauty. It has taken a long time to get to this point and I hope the wait is worth it. I think I am going to tell my future customers that the construction will take a minimum of  6 months.  I hope it doesn’t discourage anyone.

Well if you thought this guitar looked good before with just mineral spirits on it, take a look at it now with one coat of lacquer. The koa is absolutely stunning along with the super curly maple bindings. You can really see the figure in the 5 piece mahogany, curly maple, and curly purpleheart neck. I don’t know if I am going to be able to let this one go.

Well I have routed the neck cavity and have fit the neck to the guitar. I have also drilled the tuner holes in the headstock and inlayed it along with fretting the fingerboard. The awesome Cocobolo bridge has been slotted and positioned on the guitar. I only have to shape the neck now and then the spraying can begin. I am still having a problem finding a Taylor with a thin flat neck profile to use as a guide so I might have to have John make me a carving template from his guitar as a reference.

I have installed the bindings on John’s guitar and fingerboard. I used a maple and walnut chevron  purfling to compliment the Koa body. I have also bound the fingerboard with curly Koa to match the body and to contrast the maple fingerboard. I have installed a bookmatched Koa headstock on the neck that came from the body wood. John has choosen the Cocobolo bridge for the guitar which will look great.  The next step will be to rout the neck cavity. It should look like a guitar by next week.