Let's Play
"Let's Make A Heel"
June 6, 1999
O.K. The heel has been rough cut. Now I clamp it to the workbench and get out the chisel and rasp/file. |
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| The shoulders of the heel are subtley extended. |  |
| After a bit of chiseling, rasping and filing the heel takes shape. The pink stuff is paper that has the pattern for the shape of the end of the heel. |  |
| Now the heel is pretty much in its final shape, I sand it to make sure that all the lines flow smoothly. |   |
| The heel after the neck is attached to the body of the guitar. Notice how the shadows on the contours of the heel are smooth. |  |
| The heel cap can be fit many ways. Here is one. It uses the same piece of wood as the back of the guitar, extending the grain pattern. |  |
| You heel! |  |