Colfax Guitar SHop

Custom Rosewood Jumbo

This picture shows the “go-bar” sticks that are used to glue the braces to the back. The back is wet from the rag used to clean up all the excess glue.
	The back is being glued to the sides. After this step is completed the guitar will be ready for the top to be fitted and attached.
Here the binding and purfling are being glued into a carefully routed channel. You can see the individual pieces of abalone trim lying on the top to be added between the wood purfling strips.
	The neck is having the final fitting to the body. The body is now ready for the finishing process. We only use nitrocellulous lacquer on our custom guitars.
The headstock is inlaid with hand cut mother of pearl and abalone. Below is Scott preparing pieces of pearl to be inlaid into the fingerboard.

	Shown is the fixture used for holding the neck secure while it is being carved. All of our necks are completely carved by hand.
All of the braces are scalloped and shaped by hand with a sharp chisel, then fine sanded before the top is fitted to the body of the guitar.
	Yellow tempera paint is painted on the surface that is to be inlaid. This is done before the inlay pieces are glued to the surface, thus making the scribe marks much easier to see when routing out for the inlay pieces.
Here’s the finished product. The design of the bridge with its backwards shape and inlays pay homage to the Gibson J-185 for which it is patterned after. Our good friend Jack is checking it out below.