Dan's First Archtop
Building the Archtop

Carving the Front and Back

I had been
contemplating building an
archtop for over twenty years.
After researching various
methods I find that you must
spend a lot of time building molds,
jigs and various aparatus mostly
used to hold work a in progress.

Here are a few pictures
showing the beginning process
of carving the top and back.

Archtop Building Page 2
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Archtop Building page 5
Archtop Building page 6

Guitars I have Built

carving the archtop