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After a request for a bright, high tuned instrument, in a small body, this is what I have created so far.
Flame maple back and sides, quilted maple neck with ebony/maple ribbons, ebony board, bridge and bindings, ebony/maple purflings, (not on yet). chrome hardware. Maple fret markers.
Body is only 16" long, 12-1/4" bout, depth is 3-1/2" to 3-7/8" , sound ported (not cut in yet) , quilted maple rosette with ebony/maple ring, maple bridge plate, maple headstock overlay, solid ebony backstrip and bout wedge. Ebony bridge pins. 20" scale, 1-3/4" nut to 2-1/4" spacing.
Customer asked for as much maple as he could get, even asked for maple bindings, but I decided to go with contrasting and offsetting ebony.
I almost forgot the cedar top amongst all the blonde in there. This one might start to produce it's own syrup.

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Nehemiah Covey
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm maple syrup

That's a lot of maple right there. Good thing it's easy to come by.

I finished a Maple Cedar guitar this past March and I really love the sound of it. The cedar really warms it up a lot. I did a spalted maple rosette on mine so maple there too.

Maple good Nehemiah, can we see some more, rosette, back maybe?

You'll like the contrasting ebony binding too.

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I absolutely love maple !
I have a hugh stock !
Cedar top & maple B & Sides is a favorite.

Put a bit of tint in your finish to bring out the figure.
If your using lacquer !

I use a shellac base coat of Blonde & ruby,or orange, to get the grain to pop out!!

Send more pixs please!!
Mike

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Quick question: why cedar with the maple? How does this combo sound?

Thx!

Glenn

Quilted maple neck....that's wild. To bad you couldn't get it thick enough to laminate without having to stack the heel block. It sure looks like a cool instrument.

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It is pretty much based on a terz style Verhoevenc, except that I set this up to be tuned to "A" rather than "G" as was terz tuning. 5th fret instead of 3rd.
I will post more pics after the binding and M/E/M purfling goes on tomorrow
I wish I had more of that quilted maple, but it came as partial payment from a customer. Too bad. Just enough for this little neck.

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I'd like to encourage everyone to follow this fine example and build as many cedar topped maple guitars as possible

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People are used to the light colored top with dark B & Sides!

Everytime I see a Cedar & Maple I need to hear it and revel in the looks!!!

Jason - have any pics of yours??

Mike

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Sadly I don't have a finished cedar/maple guitar. I barely play and was given a Cedar topped/Birch B&S by a customer a couple years back. I planned on building my own sooner or later I just never got around to it

If you check the link in my sig there are plenty of shots of my maple and cedar in various other stages from standing trees to finished guitars

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HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JASON VOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Welcome back dude, where you been??? Time to hook up

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A few pics of this little guy after binding in ebony , purfling in M/E/M and before scraping and sanding.
I think the ebony is much better looking than the maple binding the customer asked for, now he agrees.
I don't tape and wick glue, this makes for a cleaner top and tighter joint in my opinion, I just glue and hold in place for a few seconds as I go along.
Works well for me anyway. Now to scrape and sand out.
(I just previewed the pics, sorry about the quality)

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I like the ebony binding.. Sometimes (very rarely) adding more zoot doesn't help More maple could have just looked too busy and a lot of times it almost clashes.. Unless you trim your binding from your side sets the figure probably wont match very well. Just my opinion anyways.


I'm still around.. Just haven't been very active online as I've been busy at the shop and working on a few unrelated things.

I don't want to hijack this thread so I'll pm you.

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Here's a couple more for any maple lovers out there.

It really looks better in person, cameras and I do not mix for some reason.

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i if it starts looking any better i'm going to have to go outside and burn all my guitars.