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Ken - absolutely beautiful work! I seriously need to learn how to do those arm rest bevels. You and your guitar are definitely an inspiration.

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Rob Flindall
Flindall Guitars
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Arnt...love the triplets.
Ken...that guitar is incredible. +1 on all of Todd's comments!

Your pistol is a beauty!
Man.... never thought about making grips from scrap for my gunner pals.
New source of income?

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

Just finishing off an art deco inspired writing desk in college. Went camping over the weekend and now I'm about to level the frets and set up my quinto guitar.

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"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso

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Peter, that desk is amazing! You've got some serious woodworking chops !

Those are hogue grips!!! I didn't make them, just used some mezerna polish and.y buffer, I polished the steel with mothers mag polish using my drem

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Todd, I more or less stumbled into the local bluegrass scene over here, and I suppose like everywhere, those folks are pretty traditional in their choices. One thing led to another, so here I am making more and more bluegrass instruments, along with an few more contemporary ones. The 'grassers don't like cutaways, the others are probably 50/50.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Finally getting somewhere on my "Art Deco" guitar.

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

Guitars - not much

My living room is currently filled with live edged 4/4 rough sawn cherry that is getting turned into table legs and aprons for the Indian rosewood dining table I'm making. Solid 9" wide sections on the outer edges, sawn veneers over western red cedar core in the three center sections. Spent this weekend planing, gluing and roughing the legs out and turning apron stock from rough 4/4 into smooth 3/4 boards. Vacuum bags came in today but need to find a hardware store that has a few conversion fittings before I can use it.

Hopefully I can finish squaring up all four legs tomorrow after work, and decide on how much taper I want to give them and so on. Will resawing the rosewood boards Wednesday, lam on Thursday or early next week.

Every time I see one of these threads started, I know I'm going to be amazed by most of the work that you folks churn out. All of you seem to do such beautiful work. I know darn well it's not effortless, but you sure make it seem that way. My hat is off to each of you, and you all hereby receive my highest compliments.

I personally spent some time drop-filling imperfections in some bird's eye maple I'm working at the moment. Tedious, but not too challenging nor mind numbing. Just whiling away the afternoon on no one's schedule but my own (and I don't have much of a schedule).

To Douglas Ingram I just want to say that your paddle, front row, fourth from left, looks VEEEERRRRRY sweet to me. Now, that strikes me as pure perfection when it comes to dipping wood into water. I'll say it again. Pure perfection: Not too much surface area as to cause fatigue from paddling, but plenty of power with a deep, confident stroke, and beautiful to behold when not in the water. Utterly graceful in shape. Perfetto!

Patrick

Great gatsbys Joe, I like it!

I'm just bringing this Kam uke back to life. Got to love the HF deep c clamps for the price of a latte.

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Pat

I finally got my new peghead logos back from the CNC guy.





The delicate lines in the circle drove my buddy Scott half crazy, but he finally got it figured out. The claro walnut cut OK, but the MOP involved a very steep learning curve!
I think he did a great job & am very pleased with the result. Now I can get back to the three guitars that have been waiting for head plates.

Holy cow, Joe....that is one special rosette!!!
Beautiful work, all.

Beautiful guitar, Ken, and nice triplets, Arnt!

I was pretty optimistic in thinking I would get bridges and frets on today as well as buffing...Ha! I was in the shop until my back and stomach told me to stop! I forgot how long it took to level sand and polish a guitar! I did two guitars plus the top of another that I had bursted for someone else. Below are pix of the two commissions.

Ken

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Wow, some really nice stuff going on in here. I got #56 strung up today... it's a 12.5" wide 23.5" scale guitar for some rock star's kid. He was born in Honduras so he wanted Honduran mahogany and rosewood throughout. Except the abalone and bubinga since they caught his eye of course.


On a side note I am loving this finish: it's just shellac sprayed until it gets a nice semi-gloss sheen, usually about 4-5 coats. I've done a couple ukes like this and just love the way you can see and feel the woods' pores and texture through the finish. I figured the kid will beat this up pretty good so this finish would show less wear than a standard 'dipped in plastic' look. The best part is that there's no sanding, no buffing... as long as there are no gaps anywhere and the surface prep is good you just spray until it looks right and you're done.

Hi All
I have been away for a while. I am building an L-OO Koa/Lutz. 1st guitar I have built in a few years. I took some time off. It is good to get back into it.

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Andy Z.
http://www.lazydogguitars.com

So much beautiful work here!!!

Pat.. That is one heck of a set of clamps. That bridge ought to stay put now!

Beth... Thanks for the kind words.

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

Joe, that's a really fine rosette and concept with your Art Deco guitar.
Is that CF or dark wood in the brace laminations?
Looking forward to seeing updates.

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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.

My shop was quiet this weekend. Lots of nice work being posted... Great job, congrats!

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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from poor judgement.

sweet! Love wake surfing! You look a little wet though the trick is to be able to start from the back of the boat while moving, surf for a while, and then to surf to the back of the boat and get in without having to get in the water

Holy cow! There's some wonderful work going on around here. I love these threads.

Joe - I believe that may be the most beautiful rosette I've ever seen. Well done!

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George :-)

I started to work on cutting up the remainder of all my wood to sell off. Got some Cuban boards almost ready to slice, and also working on some curly mahogany. Then will come the cocobolo...and HRW, and a ton of Black Acacia. Might just sell off some BRW too.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Nice work, Andy! Good to see you posting again!

Pat

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formerly known around here as burbank
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Wow!!! As always, a whole lot of VERY impressive work going on. Kudos all 'round!!!

Spent a whole day "stickering" (is that a word?) a delivery of wood that's been staring at me for for far too long.....
Couldn't stand it any more!

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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.