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I built 4 at once, once. Never again for me. I'm not a factory, and don't enjoy acting like one. I don't really have "standard" models anyway. I normally work on 2, at different stages of completion. When I take a body out of the mold, I joint, and join the top, and back and bend the sides for the next. At this time I'll work on the necks for both. I let the later one "catch up" when it's time to finish, then do my finishing in 2's. After pore filling, and the first coat of finish, I start on the next build. The only thing I do in batches if slotting fingerboards. I do ~10 at a time. I lay out pretty much all my important dimensions (soundhole, bridge, bridgeplate, bracing, cutaway ect) with the fingerboard. I don't taper (or bind) the fingerboard until I'm ready to build a guitar around it.

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I only build in the winter months for RH reasons. Have built in batches from 2 to 6 and my feelings about it mirror Laurents remarks. Doing things in batchs saves time but up's stress and takes away some of the pleasure,especially as you get to the wrap up of the whole process.Short of building 1 at a time which would be the most pleasurable, I find I reach a compromise by doing a batch of 3 over one winter period.This way I find I still get pleasure from the process and also don't feel that I've wasted a winter by not doing more then 1.
Tom

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