Building an Arm Rest

Arm rest construction on a new guitar

Here is an optional extra for a client.  Arm rests are pretty popular these days, and can be great, but are not for everyone.   I have even been known to retrofit to my guitars and other guitars on occasion.  My style of rest is usually smoothly curved to a large radius, and long enough to accommodate a large variety of arm positions.  In this case it is made from the same timber as the body, namely East Indian Rosewood.  It gets put on the guitar around the same time as the fingerboard, before I radius the edgings.

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