{"id":1952,"date":"2022-12-15T22:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T03:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=1952"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:04:50","slug":"006-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=1952","title":{"rendered":"006 BIL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Serial Number 006 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2nd Customer Guitar<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Started on December 15, 2022: completed on February 3, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*edited on July 18, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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S\/N 006 classical guitar: this guitar will most likely see very little playing time if any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A combination of Engelmann Spruce and Indian Rosewood were chosen for the body. I was able to decide this for the customer: It is a safe combination to go with. Looking back at it now, I should have went with Sitka Spruce instead of the Engelmann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The body height on this guitar is to actual specifications on the blue prints and I will say, it is taller than I personally like. I feel the body height on 005 is the most ideal – just a bit shorter than blue print specs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rosewood veneer was used for both the head plate and heel cap. After finishing the whole neck with Tru-Oil, I have decided to French Polish the head plate veneer and heel caps on future guitars. I find that the Tru-Oil makes the Indian Rosewood very dark and dry looking and I was concerned that it would have happened to S\/N 005 which was done after this neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was initially going to do the binding with Rosewood but that was changed it to Maple just before I went to do the binding on the body. This was that point where I had to order in sides just to cut up for binding strips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Wenge strip is a nice accent to the Spanish Cedar: in terms of colour, it does match up with the Rosewood quite well but it would have been nice if the Wenge didn’t turn out so dark from the Tru-Oil though. A piece of Oak veneer is on each side of the Wenge to give it a little more accent between the two woods in there already. I do wish I had some different coloured veneer pieces to use though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wood combination is pretty generic in terms of a classical guitar and what I am used to using for material so far. And because of that, I have worked on this guitar first between the two guitars. Think of it as a warm up to the second guitar being built even though they were pretty much made side by side, this guitar was always a step or two ahead of the other one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can still see progress in my workmanship but I know there are things I still need to improve on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SPECS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Body<\/strong> Classical Ramirez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scale<\/strong> 660mm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top<\/strong> Engelmann Spruce<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back<\/strong> Indian Rosewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sides<\/strong> Indian Rosewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neck<\/strong> Spanish Cedar\/Wenge strip\/Oak veneers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fingerboard<\/strong> Rosewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridge<\/strong> Rosewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuning Machines<\/strong> Gotoh P420<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strings<\/strong> D’Addario Classical<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Serial Number 006 2nd Customer Guitar Started on December 15, 2022: completed on February 3, 2023 *edited on July 18, 2023 S\/N 006 classical guitar: this guitar will most likely see very little playing time if any. A combination of Engelmann Spruce and Indian Rosewood were chosen for the body. I was able to decide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1952","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}