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I thought I'd post some recent progress...

#4 guitar - Jumbo based on Gibson SJ-300. Still under construction


#2 Tenor Uke. French polishing

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

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Wow... no comments? I hope I didn't mess up somewhere.

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

Looks great to me. At first I thought you had put the wrong picture up last, but then I saw it only had 4 tuning peg holes. For some reason it looks like a full size guitar!

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"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso

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Very nice, Tai! The uke is looking really good! Are the back and sides padauk?

Alex

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"Indecision is the key to flexibility" .... Bumper sticker

Nice looking work Tai. Nice inlay on the uke headstock too! Are the potholders for bending?

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PMoMC

i think it looks great! You're really making progress on these...

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Phil

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"Those who tilt at windmills are only considered insane by those who can't see the dragon."

Potholder? Do you mean the blowtorch?

Yea the uke looks like a guitar sometimes... and I build them to give myself stuff to do between work and to hone my guitarmaking skills without costing too much...

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

Excellent work !!! I like them both. What kind of wood is the J300 Top?

Also, great back and side choices for both. (Love the EIR)

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

Top is Sitka spruce, I think. It's pretty light (color wise) but has some streaking. I plan to (assuming I get accepted to Lincoln College's guitarmaking course) keep building until my stash runs out... but I still need a bunch of expensive purfling and brace wood, not to mention tuners. No idea what to do with all the guitars left over too.

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

Tai,

I just checked out the Lincoln course. Looks very promising

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

Yea, I was kinda looking at that, someone on Taiwan's PCHome sells them at around 15 dollars a set and I'll use it if it's not going to a buyer.

I wish I have a music shop that moves high end instruments to consign stuff to in Taiwan, but I have never seen such a shop. The popular ones I've seen moves guitar shaped objects quickly but the expensive stuff never moves. I think most Asians who buys good instruments don't go to music shops.

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

Nice and clean approach, keep it up. I like the inlay on the uke!

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

In picture two, you have two colorful square cloth objects. Those are pot holders. I figured you used those to hold the wood while bending.

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PMoMC

Did it ever occur to you that on the other side of the world those could be used for something else. Um, a little political correctness my friend. Ha Ha.

Looks good Ti. I'm a long ways away but from here it looks like you could lighten up on the bracing on the jumbo. The uke looks awesome. Do you have a home for it?

Cheers,
Danny

Not really... I can't even manage to sell ONE instrument, and also the uke seems to have some knocking sound when I tap the back, and I can't trace it at all... Looked inside and there are no sign of anything loose so I don't know what it is. In any case it probably won't be sold.

As for the jumbo brace, I will tone shape it once everything is done... I do not know how jumbos are supposed to be braced so I guess I kinda kept everything large for now. I will taper the brace and shave off a considerable amount of material during the voicing process. The SJ-300 I copied this shape off of had really boomy voice that sounds way too bassy and I thought I should retain some treble to balance the instrument a bit. Do you have any suggestion as to how I should voice the instrument? I tap the heck out of it during every step of the process but I really don't know what I am looking for...

Here are more progress pics.

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com