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Nice guitar. Let me make a suggestion. If you tint your pore filler so that it is darker than the wood, then the filled pores won't stand out.

They are beautiful Quentin. I particularly like the close-up photo of the fret ends and fingerboard binding on #2. That's very crisp looking work, and one of the places my instruments always show a few dings and irregularities. Congratulations. I will look forward to more instruments from you!

Patrick

Really beautiful guitars Quentin.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Thank you very very much for your comments, gentlemen! I appreciate it!



Thank you for the tip! Indeed I had some problems with pore filling on the rosewood back, sides, and headplate. Next time I have to fill the pores of rosewood I think I will try the CA glue filling, it seems to give good results.
On this one I used the porefiller sold by Stewmac and found it not really convenient..
Lots of pores are still opened,because I use spray cans of nitro for the finish, I cannot afford to buy a lot of them and put many coats on the finish..

Tomorrow I will show this 2nd guitar to a well known luthier here in Paris, he saw my first OM and gave me some tips and ideas for this last one, I hope he will find the result satisfying.
After seeing the first one, he told me to carry on building guitars, that's what I will do!

Carry on Q!

How long did it take you to make each one?

Cheers,
Dave F.

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Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

Hi Dave!
For the first guitar, I worked on it 9hours a day during 2 weeks of holidays, and then working in the evenings and week ends, trying to get some time to continue the work.
It took me 6 months (from august 2010 to february 2011).
For the second one, I started at the end of March, working only some evenings and during week ends, so it took me less time than the 1st guitar.

Between the 2 projects I've improved my tools by making 2 radius dishes for the back and the top. It made the building of the second guitar really faster, because I lost a lot of time understanding how to profile my sides on the first guitar.
And actually, the first guitar has almost a flat top, because I didn't know that the sides had to be profiled before gluing the soundboard: so the bracing were arched, but after gluing to the sides (which were dead flat), the sounboard kept a flat surface.

Also, for the 2nd guitar I bought the fretboard miter box from stewmac which makes the work really easy. For the first guitar I did it with a simple ruler, and.. the guitar is not really accurate in terms of pitch when playing.. but hey, it was my first! And I love it anyway