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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Finally started spraying lacquer on my 2nd SG build.
Mahogany, Maple, Bocote. Koa backstrap.
Lot's of inspiration seeing these builds!
Dan

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wah
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Ken, you are cutting it close!

I prepped 2 backplates for my Santa Barbara show guitars. Same idea but different methods. One is scraped and the other polished. Both are nice and shiny and move and change a lot as you view them from different angles.





I have also spent a lot of time working on modifying Waverly machines for these headstocks. I made replacement titanium string posts for the machines in this picture as well as the resin tuner buttons. Working with titanium was eye opening. They came out great but it was a challenge. Having done it successfully, though, I can see it being much faster if I did it again.

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Burton
http://www.legeytinstruments.com
Brookline, MA.

Rough shaped the neck for this dread (my 2nd guitar). Cut the dovetail mortise and tenon and made a poured resin pickguard for it.

Great post... love to see all the beautiful work...

FTL

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www.leddingtonguitars.com

I'm in the process of finishing this one up. Another figured Padauk (RC Tonewoods) with Cedar top, EIR bindings and arm rest. 650 scale, Padauk bridge, Lutz Spruce top braces and Spanish Cedar back braces and neck. These pictures from my phone while the guitar was just hanging in the shop. Royal-Lac French polish.



And one with strings.


I do not understand why I can't change the attributes of the pictures to make them have the correct rotation. Any suggestions?

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

If you press edit, there should be a rotate function that you can orient the picture correctly, Waddy.

Alex

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"Indecision is the key to flexibility" .... Bumper sticker

You mean before I post them to the Forum? On my computer the aspect is correct. I even tried rotating to the right to see if it would help, and re uploaded the pictures - no good.

When I try to edit the post, there is nothing for rotating the pictures. Maybe if I had posted to Photobucket it might have worked, but these were direct uploads. Maybe I'll go back and do that.

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Yes, before posting. Do your picture editing on the phone, Waddy. Once the pictures are transferred to your computer, they are copies that can't be edited. I think.

Alex

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"Indecision is the key to flexibility" .... Bumper sticker

Have been working on my 2016 Challenge Birch body and this Jatoba 00 guitar. Next to shape the back braces and glue it up.

I see! Didn't think of that. Normal aspect on the phone for me is vertical.. I guess the phone doesn't think so! Good point!

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

I have had this problem, I believe it is basically the old world vs the new. In the new world the phones or newer cameras take a picture that in the past might need rotating; the computer would display it without any correction for rotation, sideways camera sideways picture. Now the phone and or camera passes metadata in the image saying how the phone or camera was oriented when the picture was taken. Many newer programs including Windows explorer will show the image in the correct orientation relative to the camera when the picture was taken. When the newer programs rotate an image they change the meta data but leave the image alone. Thus even rotated it will still not look rotated in the older programs. Older programs including this one display the original image ignoring the meta data. I always resize the image in photoshop, photoshop does understand the metadata and when it rewrites the jpeg it writes an image with the rotation as viewed on the phone or in a computer directory.

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http://www.Harvestmoonguitars.com

I had a class last week and we made 3 guitars in that time did 4 neck resets on top of that.

Productive week

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John Hall
blues creek guitars
Authorized CF Martin Repair
Co President of ASIA
You Don't know what you don't know until you know it

No way should you paint over those hand prints! There is pure joy there that is most certainly part of the karma!



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Not really a guitar, but I guess a speaker cabinet for a guitar amp is in the neighborhood, so... I have been making a few of these Fender style cabinets in 3/4" pine lately. I use a dado set and a simple sliding jig on the table saw to make the 1/4" finger joints, not as quick as a moulder I guess, but the results are pretty good.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Removed bridge from my dreadnought as a start of refurbishment (learning process )

Epoxy repair. Thanks to Woodie for the idea of using cam clamps over the wings!

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Pat

Stole my father's old craftsman drill press. And then built a table for it. Now I have a drill press and no longer have to use a hand held drill.

I then used forstner bits to remove the balk out of a chambered guitar I'm building. (mostly resembles a telecaster thinline.)

I'm off Fridays so it was time to make some binding, Amazonian Rosewood, Curly Maple and Ebony

Wow...exactly why I love these threads so much! Mr. Hall...I have added your shop to the list of those that I will be appropriating ideas from when I am booted from the nest!

Mr. Macaluso - happy to have been of use! Wish I had come up with the idea, but I am sure there were some 17th and 18th century luthiers that would tell us that they did not come up any new ideas, either - they were just doing what the 'old guys' did!

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A constellation only takes shape when one maps the whole.
- Beth Brower

Repairing old canoes and taking orders for new ones. Alas, the press of bills and home renovation expenses (new roof, new floor, etc) have monopolized all of my time.

I did, however, modestly cut the fret wire so that it would be ready to install on the little Lacote that I am building. Soon, very soon, it will be done!

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Expectation is the source of all misery; comparison the thief of joy.
http://redrivercanoe.ca/

Buffed out some Nitro on a wedgie.

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Pat