{"id":7983,"date":"2025-11-13T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=7983"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:43:27","slug":"047-om-modern-redwood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=7983","title":{"rendered":"047 OM modern Redwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Serial Number 047<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

OM Modern Redwood<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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*started on November 13, 2025; completed on December 12, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guitar has been planned ever since I made the left handed OM with Redwood as the soundboard. The curiosity is if it will sound as good as the left handed guitar I built. Time will tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The guitar should be a little brighter since I will be using Bubinga back and sides with the Redwood soundboard. The left handed OM was built with Black Walnut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn’t think the sound hole location that was used on the last guitar build would work with the cutaway. It was only after the body was together that I tried to see if the location would have worked out – and it would have. I was considering that after this guitar, having the sound hole on the opposite side would be the standard on my guitars moving forward. But I had Jess Horricks try the modern classical and the hole location was at the tail end of where he strummed so I have to think about it more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laminated bracing is a standard at this point for my guitars. I like the laminated bracing – I feel like there should be more strength which in theory can allow for lower bracing height. And the visual of the laminated braces is nice – especially when the sound hole is to one side and you can see the side bracing following the path of the back bracing. I feel that the work to do the laminated braces is worth it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did want to make another “rainbow edition” neck on this guitar as there were some good ideas that came up during the build of the Parlour guitar with the multi-tonewood neck. I think some people would look at it and think “that’s cool” but on the other side, I think some people might see it as a bunch of scrap wood put together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I already know that doing the multi-tonewood neck is strong. I didn’t even have to adjust the truss rod on that guitar at all – it is still in the loose\/neutral setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have seen Facebook posts of a boutique builder that uses a lot of tonewoods to make accents in their neck which I think is overkill. It does look cool and *could possibly be helping structurally since glue in stronger than the wood but I don’t believe that was the actual intention of why they did it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After looking through the inventory list, I decided to go with Ash. I didn’t want something on the tan\/orange side for the neck as the body is pretty much that kind of shade already. I tried to carve a volute into the neck angle but it didn’t turn out as good as I hoped. So far, I feel that the very first one I attempted turned out the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some reason, the neck angle to the body was really out of whack. I found out that the radius on the soundboard side was overdone somehow. Only on spot of the perimeter was touching the radius dish. I have a suspicion that it might have happened with S\/N 036.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With that, I did some research into making a “record player”. I found out from a Facebook group that they were using pottery wheels to use as “record players”. The one they were all buying didn’t quite have enough power (assuming it was the wattage) so I went one step above what they were buying. It should be enough as it claims to be able to hold 17 pounds and the radius dish is about 13 pounds. I still need to modify it into one of my benches. I will have it ready for the next build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something new was chosen for the fingerboard – Royal Blackwood. I purchased a couple of these thinking it was something on the higher end from the “Blackwood” part of it but found out it wasn’t something special as it is man-made to be what it is. Maybe it was made to help reduce the cutting of Ebony trees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The small abalone rectangles were used as inlays on the fingerboard. White side marker dots on the black fingerboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A block of 3A Ebony had been pulled at the same time as the Royal Blackwood fingerboard. I felt that some black would go with the colours that are being used in this build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The headplate has three veneers on it. I had an idea during the build on making a flush truss rod cover. I feel like it went well but a few things need a little more thinking through. It is a start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The guitar turned out to be fuller sounding than I was expecting from the Bubinga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Body <\/strong>Orchestra Model <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Top <\/strong>Redwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back<\/strong> Bubinga<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sides <\/strong>Bubinga<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neck <\/strong>Ash\/Bloodwood strip<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fingerboard<\/strong> Royal Blackwood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridge <\/strong>Ebony<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Strings<\/strong> D\u2019Addario EJ26 Phosphor Bronze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serial Number 047 OM Modern Redwood *started on November 13, 2025; completed on December 12, 2025 This guitar has been planned ever since I made the left handed OM with Redwood as the soundboard. The curiosity is if it will sound as good as the left handed guitar I built. Time will tell. The guitar […]<\/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-7983","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7983","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=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}