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Beautiful. Love the use of lattice bracing on steel string guitars.
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Looks like Tom is on cruise control! Fantastic!
Those ebony bevels are really going to pop under finish. I'm anxious to see the finished sound hole. It's a unique addition that should be stunning on that guitar.
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Thank you Jon and Fred! I am excited to see the finished box too but for now we have a picture of the near-finish box, view of the back:
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Tom finished up the box today and sanded it. The Ryan bevel and bevelled bindings are also completed. Here are some all around shots of the guitar:
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Close up of the cutaway, bevel and endgraft:
Next up would be work on the neck!
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It is turning out great so far. The back is going to look pretty sweet under the finish. Beautiful Brazilian grain lines.
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Build: Doerr Legacy Select - Swiss / Brazillian
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Wow....just....wow! Those bevels are really classy. And the Braz.....beautifully matched and such wonderful figuring........
There's something about Tom with his eye for elegant design and execution.....perfection. Glad to see more pics!
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Thanks guys for the kind comments I agree fully Tom has just been excellent to work with and he has a very keen eye on how to bring out the best in every piece of wood in my opinion.
We spent some time choosing out the headplate and backplates today and Tom has just been amazing in matching out headplate woods to match the fingerboard in grain and color and backplate woods of the same with the back. He drew out many templates of each, including whole and book matched pieces just to provide as many varied options as possible on what could work - something I really appreciate. He must have sent over 20 photographs, pretty intense and we're just talking about plates here. Kudos to Tom! Anyway, here's the backplate to the left and headplate to the right that we settled on, bearing in mind the grain and color of the back and fingerboard respectively: I'm convinced Tom spares no effort in making sure you are content with the end product at his considerable time expense. He definitely went over and beyond what I expected. That's is a kindness and gentleman-like quality we don't see too often in business these days. And oh, he absolutely loves wood!
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Just for fun I thought I would post a couple of the other options Tom graciously drew out. All were wonderful options and I really couldn't say one or the other was better. Headplates:
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And a small sample of the backplate options we comsidered:
This man really loves wood.
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Here's another picture of the completed box, with neck materials in tow for the next steps:
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It is looking very beautiful!
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Tom spent today working on the plates. The headplate is inlaid into ebony which would be carved out to make the binding while a micro pearl
Purfling outlines the shape. Backplates are also book matched:
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One more close up of the headplate. I really do think Tom makes one of the nicest looking headstocks. Can't wait to see this one done w the Doerr logo inlaid:
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