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Bob, close to exactly 3 7/8 x 4 3/4. The wedge is 7/32 at the extreme of the lower bout.
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I like the subtle taper in the backstrip. Very much like entasis in a column...
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Just to be clear - Bruce bends to patterns fairly closely, 'cause if you stray too far from the standards, it becomes a real problem to get a case. But his style does allow for so much more flexibility and creativity in any particular build - and it's why he can build asymmetrically so well. But the real advantage I've found with his guitars is the lack of internal stresses in the box, making the entire unit both more resonant, but also allowing the plates and bracing to be shaped thinner and lighter as they aren't fighting to just stay together. They sound like the finest vintage guitars even when new, and then only get better -
Got a quick look at this one before the back went on, and it is some incredible material - can't wait to see it under finish!
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Less stress is one of the reasons I tried building like Bruce rather than forcing a pair of sides into a form. That and I have not really bothered to conform to a standard size or shape yet and building a form for a single guitar seems like a lot of work.
Looking good as always Bruce. Like that subtle back strip.
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While I do generally try to avoid the work bench on Sundays, mostly to keep things in perspective, this guitar will not make it to completion by SBAIC if I dally at all. Most of the top binding went on yesterday, but this morning I fit and installed the last bit that goes in the cutaway. Not only is it not my habitual cutaway geometry, it is also not my habitual purfling package; it has an extra .032" of black/red/black to tie it into the back and side purfling scheme. I mention this to give you some perspective on my "show off" photo, the close up of the miter at the cutaway point, which came out better than I had any right to hope for.
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Yep, that's purdy purfect purfling. I've got a feeling this is going to be the dread-to-die-for: unfortunately the dread I have now is already killing me. Time to start shopping for a nice single 0 -- or maybe a Schoenberg/Sexauer!
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I realize I live an off-center world where my guitar do not actually seem expensive, and they-re arguably not where value vs cost is concerned, but even though the Pear 0 is well under $10k, that's a good size stack of twenties! $20 a week for 45 weeks! A person would have to WANT to!
I digress. I want to talk about the binding on this guitar. I have no idea whatsoever what kind of wood it is. And I'd bet dollars to donuts no one else does either. No one. I got it from a guy called "Toy Boy" (honest) who had acquired 400,000 4 x 4 x 46" that were cut in central America for the purpose of shoring cargo in coastal freighters around 100 years ago, so he told me. They put a crew ashore and started cutting tree w/o regard for species, they were after serious hardwood, and that's what they got. TB was on a road trip trying to find buyers for his wood and had come up short, so short he didn't have gas to get back to LA. He showed up at my door just before dusk and begged me to look through his 53 misc pieces in the back of his truck and then buy several for $6 apiece. I only found 3 that seemed like a good bet, not enough for his purpose. So I offered him $100 for the lot and he took it. I have been using these timbers for a variety of projects ever since. My dining room table has legs made from TB timber. That purple wood I call D. camatillo that so many of my Pernambuco guitars are bound with came from this score. And this stuff I am using on he Mod-D came for TB. This wood is mildly pinkish, and looks like a great match to the P IMO. It seems to have no meaningful open pores, or rather, what would be pores seem to be pre-filled with a creamy white substance. Sort of like Ivoroid with the colors reversed. It is as hard as any wood I use, possibly harder. Here's a picture as it looks today: |
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Bruce, I will give you $20.00 a week for 45 weeks for the Pear, to me that calculates to $900.00. Not sure that is what you meant though haha.
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Wow, to realize that it is actually $200 a week for 45 weeks makes me see that a, I am bad at arithmetic, and b, it is a huge pile of twenties.
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So we don't have a deal at $900.00? Dang it! One could do the 20 a week for 450 weeks which would only be 8.6 years....I really hope to play some at Woodstock!!!
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The body is done except for a bit of "finessing", and after my root canal tomorrow, it's on to the neck.
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