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Chris, here's my take on the backstrap volute, albeit hard to see. This is for a ziricote and alpine spruce Odalisque that I'm finishing with Sutherland Welles U500 on the back, sides, and neck, and I'll be using their polymerized tung oil on the top. So far I'm loving the U500, with a detailed description of my experience and observations forthcoming in a separate thread.

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Going to spray the finish on my 00 sized guitar. The body in the pictures has 2 coats of zpoxy sanded back with a diluted coat wiped on. I will be spraying with EM6000.

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installed the rosette on one guitar, cut the neck joint on my commission build, and bent some sides. working on joining up a back right now. maybe even bend another set of sides today.

I love that rosette.

Bob

Prepping my OM body for my day long french polishing class with Joshia de Jonge on Thursday.

Dear lord.
Some of you guys are just doing gorgeous work.

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

Have new shop almost set up. I need to organize it this week end. Hoping to get my inlay cut out for my 2013 challenge build and installed. Tearing apart another piano. " Which I am starting to get down. It's takes me about 2 hours." I'm doing a open mic tonight and tomorrow night.

Had a bit of luck today, seems that witness lines when sanding through Enduro-Var gloss layers will buff out.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Ya...that's a NICE idea.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

+1 on the rosette, Micah.

Also working on a backstrap. Cut and bound the profile this evening. Need to get it glued on yet. NCAA's getting in the way, so this will be the only progress this evening.

Ken

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Lots of repair work. A nasty finish repair on a dark green bust LP That I came in Thursday night at about 10 and has to be back Monday, Pick up install first up in the morning for a customer who will wait on it, A Gibson with a bad split down just the treble side of the top at the FB extension, a Bridge re-glue, Oh and yes that's right, trying to keep my two builds on track.

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Brian

You never know what you are capable of until you actually try.

https://www.howardguitarsdelaware.com/

If you haven't been checking out the restoration & repair section - I finished reducing the sound hole size on my OLF challenge dred from 4 1/4" to 4". First time I've tried that and I'm pretty happy with the result.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Chris, Ken J and Ken C: all three of those back strap treatments are REALLY nice looking. I'd like to try each of them!

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sweat the small stuff.

I am working on a couple of builds with falcate bracing...bridges are padauk with carbon fiber , bridge plate is also padauck with carbon fiber..

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MK5acoustics.com

Today I resanded the sides of my Bubinga - am I ever glad I did! No more minute scratches. I also did a dry run, fitting my neck to the body and it turned out to be a great fit. Tomorrow I'll glue on the neck, make a bridge, work the frets and...... let it sit - I forgot to buy a saddle and bridge pins. Lmao.

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Rob Flindall
Flindall Guitars
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Cut sound hole in #1 (1st guitar I've done myself - have done 3 in before in classes) and laying out and cutting brace stock........

Made a $41 workbench from 99% reclaimed timbers from my days as a builder. $41 plywood top, but changes to come......

Finished my mandocello. Went to a recording session in a silo next to Seabiscuit's last barn.

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Ken Franklin
clumsy yet persistent
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Done up the bracing for my latest guitar and cut the sound port on my #3.

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Claro Walnut/Redwood. Ready for pore fill.

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Cheers
Pete

Love that Mando !

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nice end graft! Is the walnut and redwood as similar in color as it appears in the pictures? I like it.

Pete, I really like that end graft, simple yet modern. Good on ya!

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Ken Franklin
clumsy yet persistent
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Wow! Nice work out there! I'll be running around to local nurseries all weekend, buying plants, shrubs and trees, then plugging them in the ground. My back hurts just thinking about it. Luckily the weather is absolutely wonderful here right now, so it'll be nice working outside.

Thanks for sharing the photos!

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George :-)

Well looking out the shop window Luthier convention?
Oh and waiting for them down on the south 40.