{"id":9545,"date":"2026-09-14T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=9545"},"modified":"2026-10-21T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:34:07","slug":"055-parlour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=9545","title":{"rendered":"055 Parlour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Serial Number 055<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Parlour Modern<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Started on September 14, 2026; completed on October 21, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guitar was started from waiting for CNC work to be done on the fingerboard of S\/N 054. I don’t like to work multiple guitars at the one time as I worry about mixing up what I am doing or forgetting to do something from the back and forth between guitars. I believe I have built multiple instruments 2 or 3 before and it was a juggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the new categorization of my builds in models instead of “Generations” as I had before, it is easier to see how many of what guitar models I have built. Leading is Orchestra Model and Parlour size being the least. I feel that when I come across some back and sides sets with great\/interesting grain patterns and it would be a waste to have a smaller guitar unless the wood was for a customer build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have always felt that Parlour guitars I build seem to have a really good voice to them – at least when I follow blueprint specs. As I have started to do “modern” options on the guitars that I build, I feel that all the steel strings are more in the same level. This may not necessarily be a bad thing but I think I need make sure that the Modern Parlours are still on par with those that are traditional, blueprint specs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did see that I have a good number of Honduran Mahogany back and sides sets but I felt that I should save those. I also wanted this guitar to be use set of back and sides that I haven’t tried before and decided on Zebrawood after checking my inventory list and seeing the woods in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a certain point, I decided to stitch or sew back sets as they come into my stock. The Zebrawood back set, after looking at it with a customer was cut and restitched. It was initially in a more arrow pattern up the middle of the back and now it is more uniform and straight which I feel would be better for sound. After building a few guitars, research and reading and watching videos online – the information says it is hands down that a boring straight grain pattern to the wood will produce better sound than wood that is fancy looking (figured) wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soundboard is a set of Sitka Spruce I got from Luthier Tom. Tom had a good number of soundboard sets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the paler colour combination with Spruce on top and the Zebrawood for the back and sides, I used some Black Walnut for binding strips – just to give it some colour. I also did use laminated bracing as well for the build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also used an Indian Rosewood piece for the fingerboard. I like that this piece of wood has some character to it. It is not straight grained but there is something to the different colours that the board has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With how the Zebrawood looked, I went with Ash for the neck. I tried to do the stained grain look and I feel like it is a little better than my attempt on S\/N 008 (and I did attempt it twice on S\/N 008). There is a thick cut of Bloodwood for the middle strip – I did this intentionally as the Bloodwood is hard on the bandsaw blades and the sap in the wood crystalizes (or something) up the sandpaper for the drum sander. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I was at the point of installing the truss rod, I was thinking that maybe I should look into some spoke wheel truss rods. I don’t actually like cutting into the head plate to make an opening for truss rod access. Unfortunately, my search results were of spoke wheel truss rods for electric guitar builds only. I know I can do what most guitar manufacturer does and use a longer truss rod and have it adjusted through the sound hole. I personally don’t like this and I don’t believe that the truss rods needs to go longer than a length starting at the middle of the first fret to the about the heel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the process of making the body and even after the body was completed, I was debating on putting a subtle arm bevel and (a) sound port. I kind of felt that this was to replace S\/N 015 that sold. I do want to have some guitars of blueprint specs and others that I have tried some new things on. I ended up in adding some small “speed holes” on the upper bout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Body <\/strong>Parlour<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scale <\/strong>24.9″<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Back<\/strong> Zebrawood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sides <\/strong>Zebrawood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neck <\/strong>Ash with Bloodwood lamination<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Tuning Machines<\/strong> Gotoh 35P450<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Serial Number 055 Parlour Modern Started on September 14, 2026; completed on October 21, 2026 This guitar was started from waiting for CNC work to be done on the fingerboard of S\/N 054. I don’t like to work multiple guitars at the one time as I worry about mixing up what I am doing or […]<\/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-9545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9545","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=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}