Keilty Guitarworks

Keilty Guitarworks Musician and Luthier

Hey local friends, I’m playing this Thursday night from 5:30-7:30ish in Morris, CT for the social. Come have some drink...
02/10/2026

Hey local friends, I’m playing this Thursday night from 5:30-7:30ish in Morris, CT for the social. Come have some drinks, hang and hear some original music, if you like.

The inside of this bin smells like the ocean. Last spring, I purchased a variety of tools, parts and partially completed...
02/06/2026

The inside of this bin smells like the ocean.

Last spring, I purchased a variety of tools, parts and partially completed builds from another local looth. This was in one of the boxes. Unused sets from the Martin guitar factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, circa my birth year in the late 1970s. Abalone, MOP and, fortuitously for my current project, black buffalo horn.

Now I just have to cut it.

Kind of disconcerting how tiny these inlays actually are after staring at the model for hours on a computer monitor. Now...
02/05/2026

Kind of disconcerting how tiny these inlays actually are after staring at the model for hours on a computer monitor.

Now on to the multi-material tests. Maybe I should get my glasses checked first.

This was supposed to be a two day post new-year cleanup….
01/22/2026

This was supposed to be a two day post new-year cleanup….

HNY. Out with the old…
01/05/2026

HNY. Out with the old…

The CNC will make the part, but it won’t do the final fit, clean up the transitions or sand to 220. Time to pull paper-...
12/25/2025

The CNC will make the part, but it won’t do the final fit, clean up the transitions or sand to 220. Time to pull paper- but not today. Merry Christmas!

Time to pull paper. But not today. Merry Christmas!
12/25/2025

Time to pull paper. But not today. Merry Christmas!

Hot from the oven on Xmas eve and ready for dressing.
12/24/2025

Hot from the oven on Xmas eve and ready for dressing.

I’m thinking maybe 1 mm instead of 2 mm maple binding next time. Trying to bend this stuff into the curves, even after ...
12/19/2025

I’m thinking maybe 1 mm instead of 2 mm maple binding next time. Trying to bend this stuff into the curves, even after heating and pre-bending, was like trying to wrestle a crowbar. I haven’t done one of these since looth school, and not with wood. I learned a few things in the process. Onward!

So far, I’m liking it.
12/17/2025

So far, I’m liking it.

Because I’m lazy.
12/15/2025

Because I’m lazy.

Since I’ve been on a fusion tear lately, (which of course has nothing to do with the fact that I just renewed my yearly ...
12/13/2025

Since I’ve been on a fusion tear lately, (which of course has nothing to do with the fact that I just renewed my yearly subscription), I decided to take a much-needed mental break from CAM-ing out the Miranda , and do a little exploratory modeling of carve tops for something else in the pipeline. I thought about giving plasticity a try for this, because it’s not something that fusion wants to do very easily, but once I started thinking about how I would do it by hand, I think we’re getting with striking distance of a machinable result that can be cleaned up with a finger plane.

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