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Lot of fun projects to look at! I just closed the box on a sinker redwood\ Indo Rosewood 12 fret 000. I am sort of stuck now as I am waiting for the delivery of bindings and a neck blank. I recently picked up the rosewood set from Lance.

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I'm building a 00-28 vs short scale slot head for my wife. I picked up the back and side set at LMI's annual garage sale 2 years ago. I didn't know what I was doing, and they were very cheap, so why not? Turns out the pre-bent side set had some issues on the ends and the back plates were short and narrow. Now, after a few builds and some education I found a use for it. I shortened the sides to remove the defects and rebent on my hot pipe. The plates fit the 00size. I'm actually not 100% sure what the wood is. It looks like older highly flamed maple, with lots of shimmer. It is darker than most maple I'm used to seeing, but sure looks like it in every other respect.
Nice tight grained spruce top. I made the neck with rock maple and wenge lay ups. I got the box closed and the neck rough fitted 2 weeks ago, then went in for some major back surgery. So now it sits on my work bench calling to me. I hope in about 2 weeks to get back to work. Hard to be patient with an obsession.


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Brad Hall
Mystic Dawg Guitars

Lots of great work here!

I just finished up this mahogany Bouzouki. Shipping to the client tomorrow.

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Josh House

Canadian Luthier Supply
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House Guitars - Custom Built Acoustic Instruments.
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Wow. Nice work all!! This 3 of the 7 I've got going.

Love these threads! Seeing all the great work being done is a good reminder of why there are new members joining the OLF, daily!

Alex

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

Cut fret slots on two finger boards, and installed my first roller nut.

Ya gots to love coco

I have a few different projects going, here are some random shots.


First, I'm restoring a 1913 Gibson jr mandolin.




Then there's a dread with madrose back and sides




I'm also making a really large ABG (19" across the lower bout), and I came up with this bracing system. We'll see if it does what I hope...

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Not much to show, busy with repairs, refrets, fret dresses and setups for over a month now.
Several people bring in 2 or 3 of their guitars, so guess I must be doing something right.
Just turned down this job though, after inspection and pricing ('62 Martin D18 in mahogany, original owner), -
Already had a (non-compression) refret with non standard wire and action's sky high,
Badly needs a neck reset, ball ends are working their way up through the plate, plastic pins are mangled, through saddle's down to the bridge. (And the case is falling apart)
Nice condition apart from the two massive pickguards......
"How much!- couldn't you just just fill in the holes and sand them down"
Divots are worse than they look in the pic, some actually go under the (wider) wire.
Amazing what even pro musicians don't realise about guitars.

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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.

Nice stuff going on! John, that indo rosewood from Lance is killer!!

I loving seeing what everyone is working on! Thanks for sharing y'all!

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"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

I hope this isn't too many pictures... I'm working on three right now.

- First attempt at an archtop type instrument in the style of a gibson cs-336.
- EIR grand auditorium with venetion cutaway and mosaic rosette.
- L-00, 12 fret. I had bought some ishpingo during a OLF swapaloosa a while back and this is what I decided to use it for. Should hamve a nice gold color. We'll see about the sound. I have a 14 fret plan and had to make bracing adjustments for 12 fret...

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Steve Sollod (pronounced sorta like "Solid")
www.swiftcreekguitars.com

This coming Saturday, I'll be taking an inlay class so I tried my hand at making an inlay with multiple parts for the first time so I can find out what's difficult to do, what I have trouble with, and what to ask about in the class. Since Kingfishers are a favorite bird of mine and there are several that live along the creek that runs near our house, I decided a Kingfisher inlay would be good to try using some random scrap wood pieces to make the parts. I converted a photo to a line drawing to make the templates on the left. Getting the fit right between the tail and body pieces was a challenge so I hope to learn a good method for doing that.

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

A friend gave me a piece of a 28" Ash tree he had to take down. Decided to try a resonator - Ash back, top, sides and neck, with a piece of Walnut that has been in the shop for about 30 years as a fretboard and veneer. Also decided that I would like to see a resonator with a rosette.

Ed

Although it isn't guitar related, I just bought 360bf of QS white oak for a kitchen job. I'm sure that I can get a few back and side sets out of the leftovers!



Alex


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Nice Alex. That's a good sized pile, gotta be a few great boards in there.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

A buddy at work is helping his daughter with their first house and dropped some trees, two happened to be White Oaks
Also doing a test run with my Luthiers Tool neck angle jig and new Bosch plunge router, Whiteside carbide bits rock.

Wet sanding today. Ugh...

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This is the first time I am trying a complicated inlay. Simple stuff I can do but this torch was challenging for me.

Nice job!

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

I've been working on a torch inlay as well - it's going on a Sitka/Ziricote 00-12 fret that I'm finally get back to. This time I used a little homemade machinists scribe to trace the inlays and higlighted the lines with white chalk - worked pretty well.

I used a scribe too and instead of chalk I used pencil. I thought black lead would fill better then white on light colored oak. Did you glue the inlay to the headplate and scribe around it then unglue the inlay to rout it out? I was afraid to do that because the inlay is so fragile. Interested to know what method you used...

So Daniel, it looks like you used glue, if so, what glue did you use and how did you get the inlay back off.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

This time I did use spots of CA glue to hold the inlay down for tracing. I then used acetone to remove the inlay pieces - a total PIA.

Next time I will use white/wood glue as I've done in the past, trace the inlay as soon as it will stay in place, and then pop them off before the glue fully cures.

Ok. I think I remember reading one article that suggested using Duco cement. I cannot remember what the solvent was in removing it but they claim that it comes off easy, I have my doubts

I just held them in place with the tip of a larger common nail but that was a PIA also. I think pearl in general is a PIA no matter which method you choose

BTW I also made sure to inlay the head plate before gluing it to the neck just in case I screw it up.

I also tried the CA route once with the same result you had. Some kind of glue would be nice. I have been using basically a small nail ( broken dental pick) to hold them on and then outlining in 0.03mm pencil; it works ok but has some drawbacks. I could do a better job if I could glue the inlay down and trace it, probably with the tip of a #5 Xacto knife, or maybe a very sharp, small scribe depending on the shape of the piece. Need an adhesive that will dissolve with Naptha - the way we do with double-stick tape.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"