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I'm working on my first arm bevel al la Kent Everett... so far so good.

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

Learning "Oh Lord, Search my Heart" from a Tim Sparks vid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtF8Ak0NH7w

Just got a sipo back and sides set down off the shelf for the next guitar.

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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

I am restoring a 39 and 41 martin D28 both with the same issue of no wood under the bridge. One is more severe as someone that didn't know what they were doing had worked on it and used epoxy . Took about 30 hr of work but I am ready to put in the new bridge plate.

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John Hall
blues creek guitars
Authorized CF Martin Repair
Co President of ASIA
You Don't know what you don't know until you know it

rosettes

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member of the guild of professional dilettantes

Got some really nice Peruvian Walnut - and made a vanity out of it. Some of the leftovers will make nice necks!

Alex

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

Now that, my friends, is a proper rosette.
Bravo Miguel!

This was a fun one, 1968 Gibson SG badly abused over the years, the botched Floyd Rose install was the straw that broke the gibbys back.
Routed out all the ugly wood, bad pickup routes, forstner bit abominations, glued in Honduran mahogany with HHG. Had to make custom sized Honduran mahogany dowels for the neck, and build up the neck in front of the fingerboard for a decent nut height. The new route for the neck pickup was a smidgeon stressful but it turned out

Finishing up a Starcaster caster and a Ziricote OM.

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"I've been had again"
Tim Benware
Creedmoor, NC

Delivered a double side Bird’s Eye Maple/Indian Rosewood/Lutz OM to my dealer in Minneapolis, finishing up an all laminate Maple 16” archtop.

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It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you do know that's wrong.

Back braces glued
Fret Job and new saddle on a sweet J45

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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.

Trying to decide if my private plunge pool is at exactly the right temperature for optimum morning refreshment before a beach walk, although the major activity yesterday was whether a second mango-lime margarita with the spicy salt rim was really the best idea before dinner. It was.





Sometimes you just need a break from shooting lacquer and filing frets!

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A constellation only takes shape when one maps the whole.
- Beth Brower

Wise man...

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Julie Moriarty
http://JulimorCreations.com

Wet sanding lacquer today.

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Repairing #5 of the 8 that came in two weeks ago. Also getting ready to glue on the bridge for my size 5 build that's been in work for the last year or so. Good thing I'm retiring soon, I need more time in the shop.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Aside from the 7 instruments that I've personally got underway, my student and friend, Dick was finally able to finish up his "0" guitar. It took seven months, working 2-3 days a week, 3-4 hrs a day, for him to complete the guitar due to his father passing and needing to be on point for all that follows that event. The guitar is my own design loosely based on a Marvin "0". It's braced differently, it's a 24" scale, the soundhole is farther north than a Marvin "0", and so on. He's pretty chuffed!

Staining new kitchen cabinets. You have to do that when the nest empties. At least that’s what she said. When I get done I’m definitely going to start on number 23! That’s right I say.

One of my favorite pieces of the process.
So gratifying!
This one is getting close.

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My memory is so good, sometimes I remember things that never happened.

Finally coming close to the end of the biggest batch I ever did…


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Time to carve some braces again...

Like them triangular braces and wider X!

I really like that brace layout.


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Mountain Song Guitars www.mountainsongguitars.com

Great stuff.

I’m having fun with some rosette, tops, bindings and purfling.











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Aaron Craig

Aaron - That rosette (photos 3 & 4) came out really nice. It looks great with that top and it'll be cool to see how it looks with that radial purfling installed around the top. What is the top?

Photography nerd question. How did you get the narrow horizontal in-focus band across photo #4? That's a nice effect.

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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

Thanks! I like the way it came out too. The top is some really nice sinker redwood.

As for photo number 4, the shallow depth of field stems from a combination of a large aperture, long focal length, and shot angle. I think that was taken at 70 mm and something in the 2.8f to 3.2f aperture range.


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Aaron Craig