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Are you the Invisible Man?

If not, and if those are your clothes, I'm glad you stayed out of the picture. TMI...

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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."

I'm doing some updates to my cnc software today, including the firmware for the SmoothStepper. Oh joy!

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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."

Todd: That new diet seems to be working.....!!!
Tom

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A person who has never made a mistake has never made anything!!!

Rats, that guy must have been right, and I'm left behind.

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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."

Radiusing the fretboard and doing final neck carving on this Carpathian/Mahogany 0 size. Hope to have it ready for finish this week.

Chuck

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Cutting some braces from billets. Thats about all I can do this weekend. Need to borrow my friends thickness sander to thickness a top and back I joined this week before I can do much more in my shop. So the rest of today will be spent doing honey do's.

Tonight, BBQ at a friends house!!!

Completed some traditional type rosettes. This is something I started working a few months ago - wanting to refine my process and techniques.

The top one is from a design by Arcangel Fernandez and he bottom one by Daniel Friedrich.

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Max

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Max Bishop
Brighton, Michigan

I'd say you've refined your technique nicely...

Wish I could do that! Too blind...

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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."

Final shaping of a couple of necks. Here's one:

Headstock front








Headstock back







...and here's the other

Headstock front








back








And finally, this pair is about ready to be sent out. Pernabuco/Adi, BRW/Adi

Front








Back

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Managed to complete my second in the "Dragon" series.
Here it is freshly strung up:

Now Fillipo's a man who knows his BBQ. Gonna have to go fire up my grill now!!!

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Bill Hodge


One does not simply, own enough guitars!

Filippo, you're making me drool, man. That just isn't fair.
Hotdogs for dinner here.

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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."

Attended the St. Louis OLF gathering. Nice time, met a few new friends, and scored some Zoot.

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Formerly known as Adaboy.......

Cutting a new bridge for the flat top mandolin. Gotta say the more I do little things like this the more I enjoy it.

Hey Todd...you still there?

Todd?

Uh-oh...

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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."

this weekend did work on some motorcycles then made up some heel and end blocks and glues them on. oh and screw up some bubinga

Finished up the binding on No. 3 - Padauk OM w/Stika top.

My first attempt at a tail wedge (or butt wedge if you prefer) - looks ok from my house.

Kevin Looker

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I'm not a luthier.
I'm just a guy who builds guitars in his basement.
It's better than playing golf.

I've got a few things going on. First up is a quickie drop-top on a yamaha strat copy:

Next are a couple of new body molds for my next two builds, a new shape derived from Taylor's Grand Concert, but considerably different:
And the other is based on an 1860's Martin 2 1/2-24:

Here's a '72 Martin flattop mandolin I did a retop on a while back. It's back in the shop for the nitro, which will be tinted to approach the color of the original:


And last, here's a couple of crummy shots of my koa/red spruce GA cutaway I finally put the finishing touches on (endpin, pickguard, final setup). Sounds lovely!

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Mountain Song Guitars www.mountainsongguitars.com

A number of things, but this got finished-



It's going on a nylon string crossover. Body is Brazilian, overlay is Cocobolo (offcuts from the back) bordered with bone and b/w purfling.

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

Love that Steve!

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

I finished my HVLP sprayer. It's got a 4 stage Ametek-Lamb turbine. I won't be able to do any spraying until I can get a hvlp spray gun .
Disclaimer: Any resemblence to an Apollo 1035 unit is strictly intentional.

Thanks much, John!

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

Love that bridge Steve!! Coincidentally, I'm building a nylon string crossover at the moment too...small world!

The big thing that happened in my workshop this weekend was the arrival of my new ShopBot machine:



I have to rearrange the workshop to make proper space for it, plus I've got a LOT of learning ahead of me.....should all be fun though!

Cheers,
Dave F.

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Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

Was my birthday .. So .. i was enjoying my family and friends..

Regards!!

jorge

Happy Belated Birthday, Jorge!

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com