New OM Project

I built a OOO/OM cutaway for my son Tom, years ago for his 18th birthday, and I like this small guitar over the dreadnought I usually play. Inspired by the Martin OMCPA4, I'd like to build another.

Sometime in the dim and distant past I acquired some part finished items for an OM sized cutaway. I have most of the parts in a semi-finished state. I have this spruce top, with a tacky rosette and full length split... usable? maybe...

I have a set for the back in Sapele, in usable condition:

There is a matching set of ribs, partially bent

There are some nasty plywood end blocks:

I have a semi finished neck, design for bolting. It's very shallow and could be very comfortable

It's got some damage at the peg head. I might do a peghead overlay on the back as well - it has a rosewood overlay on the front already.

As I said...

I've got a couple of rosewood fingerboards, saddles & bridges in stock:

 And some fretwire left over from another project, along with a mock tortoise pick guard:

To supplement that lot I bought a nice block of spruce for the bracing. We'll split that down on the bandsaw.

I'll need to sort out some back bracing and some tuning machines & some binding & purfling; but I'm sure I have some bits and pieces in stock.

Tom's OOO

My project for Tom's 18th was an OM style cutaway guitar, featuring:

• Mahogany back & ribs
• Spruce soundboard
• Mahogany neck
• Rosewood fingerboard
• pearl dots
• Rosewood pegheadoverlay
• BWB purfling & maple binding
• Abalone soundhole inlay
• Finished in clear water based lacquer over black stain
• Bone nut Ebony bridge & bone saddle
• D’Addario medium gauge strings
• Schaller tuners
• Schaller piezoelectric pickup