{"id":3539,"date":"2023-10-13T22:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T02:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=3539"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:09:57","slug":"fret-erasers-copy-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=3539","title":{"rendered":"017 Orchestra Model left"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Serial Number 017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Left Handed Orchestra Model<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Started on October 12, 2023: completed on October 28, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*edited on September 10, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\/N 017 will be a left handed Orchestra Model guitar. I have built 2 left handed guitars so far, but both have been for customers which leaves me nothing for a left handed player to try out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have chosen Red Cedar for this guitar’s soundboard: I have recently strummed through a few of my current guitars and noticed that S\/N 014 (The Cat Guitar) had a different tone it. I am not sure if it is just the wood combination but I am sure that the Red Cedar soundboard is a factor in there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went with trying another new wood for the back and sides set: Japanese Walnut. I find that the grain pattern is very similar to the Bitter Cherry that I have worked with before. Sometimes I wish that when you put finish on the wood, it stays the same colour as it is raw. There have been a few back and sides sets in which I preferred the way it looked before I French polished it. I know that even with spraying EM6000, the colour will change a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used the last piece of New Guinea Walnut I have for the neck. I honestly still prefer to try other woods than the norm that you see all the time. A Black Walnut fingerboard went on as the fingerboard – another new wood I am trying out. The pattern from the fingerboard and neck are quite different from each other – which is a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The last three necks, I have been trying to use Tung Oil for the neck finishes. This neck seems pretty rough feeling, I may have to take it apart and sand it down and\/or possibly use Tru-Oil for a top coat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had initially tried to design a headstock to use on this guitar and future guitars but the way it looked didn’t seem to fit an acoustic guitar – to me, at least. It looked a lot more of an electric guitar headstock – it was just a modded Music Man headstock which is essentially a Fender headstock shape. I will have to try to design something else as well as some bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guitar is the first time routing the second logo. I wanted to use logo on a bigger scale – making it go through the headstock but it seems like we need to test that idea before actually going ahead with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The neck wood had eventually turned “powdery”. It almost looked like it was in the middle of being sanded. Even though I did have a couple of customers say that they liked the “raw” feeling of the wood on the neck, I felt that it was time to refinish it with Tru-Oil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having to take the neck off, I also reworked the shape of the neck a little – more on the heel as I was struggling with the heel shape for a long period of time. I left the heel little on the thick side to compensate for how little material is at the heel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A portion of the X brace has lifted from the body and has been reglued but you can see a crack line along the top. It might be just the shellac. If the glue doesn’t hold, I may consider replacing the soundboard altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Body <\/strong>Orchestra Model, left handed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scale <\/strong>25.34\u2033<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top <\/strong>Red Cedar 1A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back <\/strong>Japanese Walnut<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sides <\/strong>Japanese Walnut<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neck <\/strong>New Guinea Walnut<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fingerboard <\/strong>Black Walnut<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Tunings Machines<\/strong> Gotoh 381<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strings <\/strong>D’Addario EJ26 Phosphor Bronze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serial Number 017 Left Handed Orchestra Model Started on October 12, 2023: completed on October 28, 2023 *edited on September 10, 2025 S\/N 017 will be a left handed Orchestra Model guitar. I have built 2 left handed guitars so far, but both have been for customers which leaves me nothing for a left handed […]<\/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-3539","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3539","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=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}