My Tony Francis Weissenborn Style 4 Marquetry Pictures P 2

[James Williamson]

Here are the photos on the Marquetry for the Style 4.

http://get.mystagemusic.com/view/displa ... 574547-p=1

Sorry but this site seems to put last first, so you'll need to mentally piece it all together.

Here are Tony's comments below:

Here are some snaps of the binding process. Or lets go back a little, The rope marquetry is made by gluing genuiune holly and cocobola into big laminations and then cutting these into little strips which can then be hand bent and mitered into one seamless boarder as you see on the guitar. One reason old fashioned rope marquetery is so uncommon these days is becuase there is greater than 80% wood wastage in the manufacturing process (with very expensive inlay woods), and becuase it takes such long time to make and fit. I also make the holly purflings (like we see in the rosette and tail inlays, and frets), and the dyed maple purfling around the boarder.

So once the rope is made, the channel for the marquetery is first cut with a grammil (thats the black and silver thing in the photos) and then the majority of the waste is routed out, followed again by the grammil and chisels for a perfect fit. The rope is simply bent (and sometimes not so simply!) over a hot pipe and glued in place at once. I guess it takes about two days just to fit the rope to the channel, listening to Raw Power, of course.

More photos of the detailing and inlay process to follow.

kind regards in peace and music,

Tony Francis

[John Billings]

James, I keep getting this message when I try to log into that site:
"We're sorry, we've encountered an error."

[James Williamson]

John,

Sorry about that, I wonder if others got the same message but didn't let me know.

Anyway, here are the photos and I'll also provide a new link for the construction photos.

Thanks,

james

http://picasaweb.google.com/jameswillia ... directlink

[John Billings]

James! Thanks! Stunning guitar. Love the binding!

[James Williamson]

John,

Thanks, yea Tony Francis is an awesome builder..just love his work.

james

[T. W. Hatem]

James !

Thanx for your posts regarding TF & your new guitar.

I am in line waiting to begin my own Style 4 NZ adventure with TF. Your pictures are like a tonic !

Please keep posting your progress.

Good Luck & God Bless !

Theo

[Mike Neer]

I've been trying to avoid these pics in order not to stir up my desires to own anything like this, but I succumbed.... Looks like a real masterpiece in the making. Best of luck.

[Fred Kinbom]

That looks great - thanks for sharing!

Fred

[Chris Drew]

Yeah, I was getting that error message too...

Now I can see the pics, as I expected this looks like it's going to be one stunning guitar!

Mr Francis is certainly accomplished in the art of luthiery... can't wait to see/hear the end result!

[Jerry Desmet]

Really nice job. I'm curious to see the final work, but it looks like at this photo :

[Tom Pettingill]

Thats going to be a sweet one