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Alex Kleon
 Post subject: Some Pretty Guitars
PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 10:48 pm 
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OLF members Josh House, Ron Belange, Fred Tellier, and Tony Karol were at the Guitar Day at Exotic Woods in Burlington, Ont., showing some of their instruments.
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It was nice to be able to have time to chat with all of them, as well as sitting in on Tony's set-up seminar. Other speakers were Marc Beneteau and Sergei DeJonge. A fun day!

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Yes indeed. Great guitars, great people, and great seminars. Nice to put faces with names, and great to see Fred again.

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What's the story behind the harp guitar?

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It was great to be there and have a face to face with forum friends. Great to see you Alex. I really enjoyed the day.
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Pretty guitars indeed! I think it's great whenever I get to meet online friends out in the real world and love reading about these types of events. Thanks for posting and sharing the photos.

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I was there too, although I only really ended up talking with Tony and Fred. There were some other guys around talking about arm bevels, was one of them you Bob?

I found the show inspiring, can't wait to get back into the shop!
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Hey Chris .. what do you mean .. I make them !!! that's #4, I am working on #6 right now, as well - have one of my students making one ..

I will be at the harp guitar gathering this year in Mooresville NC (Oct 24/25 weekend) .. the owner of my first harp is hosting !!!

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Fred, maybe ease up on the single malt while fretting and setting the bridge.
JK, but maybe someone could explain briefly,to an ignoramus, what the skewed frets is all about.
Wish I could have been there.

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Phil J wrote:
I was there too, although I only really ended up talking with Tony and Fred. There were some other guys around talking about arm bevels, was one of them you Bob?

I found the show inspiring, can't wait to get back into the shop!



Yes Phil, I was in the guitar room, talking with Tony quite a bit after his seminar.

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Hey Chris .. what do you mean .. I make them !!! that's #4, I am working on #6 right now, as well - have one of my students making one ..

I will be at the harp guitar gathering this year in Mooresville NC (Oct 24/25 weekend) .. the owner of my first harp is hosting !!!


Right! I have some small interest in them. Is this your own design, or inspired by other popular makes? I would like to attend a harp guitar gathering some day (but not this year).

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hi Chris,

definitely inspired by Dyer/Knutsen designs ... I cant say I am the biggest fan of the cloud harp headstock, as you are pretty much forced to use banjo tuners with 4:1 ratio for the tuners .. I have tried using them on other harps and don't really like the feel, so I wanted to be able to use Gotoh std tuners for the subs. The tailfin was a direct take form a Knutsen design, and there was only one Dyer that had that, style 4 I believe ..internally its based off the Dyer plan the GAL has, but modified for a fan fret neck, and changed some of the parameters based on how I brace things.

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