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a few more updates...
Side sound hole cut. Will round over later. Neck carbon fiber and truss rod installed.
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Bracing taking shape
Glueing x-brace Starting to shape braces. Finger braces still absent.
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More progress on the build
Head plate with abalone purfling.
Fingerboard with inlays matching rosette theme
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That is one of the most beautiful rosettes I've seen yet! I can't wait to see how it turns out with the sunburst.
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Really cool rosette!!
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+1 on that rosete. Very nice looking.
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more updates
Chladni pattern
Chladni pattern Rear headplate from section of excess back wood Interior sealed with a wash coat of shellac Rear headplate shaped Front headplate Back plate sealed
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Back and sides together!
Back and sides together. Next step - binding
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Build update
Sapele binding bent
Tail stripe Binding at the cutaway Cutting the binding and purfling channels Applying binding
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some new build pics
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Staining the top!
Finish sanded and wiped clean with naphtha
Wiping on lightly tinted alcohol. 1 drop in half a pint to begin 8 or 9 coats of alcohol on bare wood adding a drop of amber or tobacco to each coat Sprayed with a sealer coat. I(Greg) plan to add a bit more gradation later by spraying when I can scrape it back off the sealed abalone
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almost ready for finish
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This build is really coming together nicely--all the details complement each other so well. Really like the choice of wood for the endgraft--great contrast with the sapwood.....
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2013 Stehr Auditorium (Carpathian/Myrtle) 2015 Stehr Auditorium (Adi/BRW) 2020 Baranik Meridian (Blue Spruce/Manchinga) 2020 Wilborn Arum (Tunnel 14/Coco) 2021 Kinnaird Graybeard (BC Cedar/Bog Oak) 2022 Kinnaird CS Student Build (Adi/Padauk) 2023 Kinnaird FS (Italian/Koa) |
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Finished Guitar
Here are the finished pictures. I will be picking it up later this week.
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Greg German guitar demo
Ok folks, this has been a long time coming. I've been getting to know this guitar for the last 4 months and I am happy to report that it is awesome! It definitely has a unique look to it, but we all want tone with our looks right?
We'll this guitar has tone to spare. Lot's of sustain (in the demo below, at the end you can hear that when I cut it off it was still ready to keep going for some time), and some really clear powerful highs. This guitar sounds really good capo'd up, and the cut away let's you play pieces with the capo way up the neck. Being a deep body, the balance tilts toward the bass, which I like for most of my stuff. The bass notes are clear and powerful. It's a great sounding guitar with a beautiful unique look. My hats off to Greg German for making an all around outstanding guitar. Here is a demo I posted on youtube. Please excuse the mistakes, I didn't feel like doing a bunch of takes.
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