Sen Guitars

Welcome to my guitar building blog.
This blog describes my journey into the world of guitar building.
I like to share my experience of building and hopefully it can be of some help to all the guitar making enthusiast.
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2021-12-25

Applying finish to the sides (French Polish)

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20211225 Merry Christmas! Everyone! So I continue with the FP of the sides. The problem is with the holding of the guitar while the si...

2020-02-19

Making the sides

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Making the sides 20191128 While waiting for some of the glues to dry, I began to thickness the sides. At first I scraped one side smoot...

2015-07-05

Thickness the sides

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I also thickness the maple sides for #8. The sequence of thicknessing is scrub plane, my wooden plane and finally high angle plane. Afte...

Thickness the sides

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20150526 I began to thickness the sides. Originally I plan to braced up the top but due the recent wet weather I decided to postpone that ...

2013-09-20

Bending the sides

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I started to bend the sides, and to my surprise it's as easy as IRW. I think it's probably because I thin the sides to teh correct ...

2013-08-29

Thicknessing the sides

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I had to rest a while as my R wrist was painful. Signs of rheumatism? I had sprained my wrist during my company's inter-department soc...

2012-10-18

Processing the Sides

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30 Aug 2012 I started on the sides. Since the side was a bigger dimension than what I required I cut off the excess strip for use as bind...

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Sen Goh: Sen Goh has been building guitars part-time since 2007, mainly specialising in building classical guitar. Beginning Sen started off making guitar mainly learning from books and videos and with a kit from the LMI (famous Online Luthier Supplies Site but closed for good). As time passes, Sen also managed to learn lutherie insights from various luthier forums and from experienced other luthiers friends like Alexandru Marian from Romania, David Chin from Australia; acquiring valuable knowledge such as how to tune the guitar sound board to achieve a good sounding guitar . By adopting mainly scientific method of building, Sen aims to achieve a good sounding guitar consistently. Sen has since built guitars of different styles including Torres, Simplicio, and Bouchet and incorporated new modern features to his guitars like sound ports and elevated fingerboard. Philosophy The main objective Sen hopes to achieve in each guitar is one with great projecting trebles with a controlled bass. This can be achieved by controlling the bracing pattern and the guitar resonances.

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