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Old 12-28-2010, 10:07 PM
Howard Klepper Howard Klepper is offline
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Originally Posted by riorider View Post
Excellent, Kent. I'm continually excited at your shapes (the revised dread is my favorite dread), and this one also avoids all the elongation and mis-shapen bouts of many parlours.

Very nice job!

Thanks for sharing.

Phil
Those elongated and "mis-shapen" bouts are what makes a guitar a parlor style in many people's opinion. What you see as a design mistake was the fashion in the 19th century.
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