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PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:38 pm 
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Location: Eastern Seaboard
First name: Matt
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Zip/Postal Code: 23435
Country: Usa
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Thanks for admission to the forum. I am sure I will benefit from your luthiery experience and in turn post lots of pictures and give folks a laugh now and again. In any case I am a transplanted trumpet player, turned electric guitar player, turned more and more an acoustic guitar player. So much so that my cheap Fender DG-60 needs a partial refret and I just decided to dive in head first and build, hopefully a nicer instrument. In any case I already have a tablesaw, jointer, planer, clamps, drill press, hand planes and soon a bandsaw so with the exception on jigs I think I am pretty tooled up to start. I have already begun to put together what will be an OM style guitar with some atypical woods(because I had them on hand and I won't have as much regret with maple as rosewood on my first build). I attached some photos of a lamination of maple, cherry, and walnut veneer I am hoping to use as a neck blank. It is 3" x 4" x 33". I also have six maple sides thicknesses to 1/10" x 4-1/8" x 33". I made six because that is what the board yielded and I figure when I bend it there will be a pretty good learning curve and I will pick out the best two for my project. The back will be the wide boards below the thinned sides. I will resaw them when I get a bandsaw soon. Thanks again for putting up this forum and participating. Looking forward to your comments.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 7:00 pm 
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Trying to attach the pictures


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:25 am 
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Neck blank


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 Post subject: Some small progress
PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:09 pm 
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10"x24"x3/4" form blanks cutout. Time to glue them up and draw the template out and wait for my new bandsaw to arrive to cut out the forms.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:12 pm 
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First name: Beth
Last Name: Mayer
City: Tucson
State: AZ
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Welcome! Looking forward to seeing your instruments come in to being.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:45 pm 
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Thanks working that direction. Wore out the frets on my cheaper laminated Fender guitar and making one to replace it. An OM style Martin.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:01 pm 
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First off dude...

Welcome to the forum.

Secondly ...ya your welcome.

Now, mes read your rambling, babbling first post...so just to be clear hear, me will say..

You don't got enough clamps!

Capice · capicé · capiche · capeesh · capisch · capishe · coppishe? ~ Take your pick.


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:01 am 
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Actually just replaced two overhead bulbs after taking the first string of pictures. Good eye.


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:19 pm 
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Got some stuff layed out.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:03 pm 
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Started building the mould today.


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:44 am 
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Finally got free from work to build the forms.


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