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08-13-2010, 01:55 PM
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For anyone interested, here is a video of a 21" Larson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ieMHulNxb8 I'm curious as to whether or not the string tension can actually drive a top that big to its full potential. 
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#32
08-13-2010, 02:10 PM
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Edit: I found a picture of this monster. 
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08-13-2010, 03:21 PM
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Yup, there it is..."Big Boy".
Got some work done on the neck today. Back of the neck has ebony and holly center stripe...  Headstock overlay is African blackwood and shaped in the Prairie State style...  Neck is around 5/8" long as I haven't cut the dovetail yet... Now it's starting to look like a guitar! 
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08-18-2010, 05:49 PM
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Haans,
Your project looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing with us. Please do keep us posted on your progress. As for the Larson "Big Boy," I took that video and photo when I had the guitar in my home (and thanks to Tony Klassen for playing the guitar for me). It was, to my ears, the finest sounding guitar that I've ever had the privilege of playing. Stunningly responsive even to a light touch, loud, resonant, sustained forever. But, just too big to play comfortably. For more information about Larson guitars and my project to update Larsons' Creations with Bob Hartman, please see my Larson Guitars website. For a clip of me playing my 000 size circa 1920 Larson please see this video. For a clip of me playing my 00 size circa 1920 Larson please see this video.
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08-19-2010, 04:50 PM
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Hans: That is a sweet guitar, I Like the detail on the neck. What a nice piece of artwork.
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08-19-2010, 05:38 PM
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Sorry guys, I usually don't sell prototypes, and my wife snagged it right away. She calls it her cowboy guitar. Thinks she's Patsy Montana I guess...
Here's the neck ready to finish, dyed and holly scraped. 
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08-21-2010, 06:02 AM
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Hans,
I keep finding myself coming back to these pics. You really have Larson aesthetic down. Few modern builders get the bindings & purfings right. Very cool. Plus, I'm really intrigued by your modernized Prairie State-style graphite "tone tubes." I'd love to see/hear/play one of your guitars some day! Thanks, again, for sharing these pics with us.
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08-21-2010, 02:34 PM
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Thanks again, John. Amazing what you can do with a couple of websites and a book...
There are quite a few folks doing partial "Tone tubes" ending at the waist, but I wanted to run them all the way back. I started to do the first right down the middle like the Prairie States were, but realized in time that every repair-person in the world would hate me for that! With them splayed out like I do, you can get your hand inside the instrument. Most of my guitars are not all that dead copy Larson, but my wife liked this one as it was. I did a little engraving on the major pearl pieces, nothing fancy as nothing fancy on the original...  Today I got the top sanded and lightly toned with some amber, shot a coat of vinyl followed by two coats of lacquer...  Taped off the center seam and the end wedge and brushed on a couple of coats of lacquer...  Dyed the coco with Trans-Tint...  The messy part, paste filler...  When it's dry I'll lightly sand and shoot a coat of vinyl and then scrape the binding and purfling. It's totally boring from there, a couple of weeks to apply the lacquer, a month to dry...
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08-22-2010, 12:49 PM
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Thanks, BK. Actually, I like the parlor better. But I thought I'd make Maureen a flashy guitar...
Here's why most builders won't do dyes...scrape, scrape, scrape...   Took about 4 hours to do. Two coats of lacquer and then tomorrow I'll inspect and start drop filling...    
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dresses up real nice ...
