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08-16-2016, 06:58 PM
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I put the strings on today and played it for an hour or so. Eric won't see it till next week, but He is going to be very happy to have this one! We intended this guitar to be drier than some of the previous 000 Schoenbergs, and have more focus, and more volume possibly, not that any of these were issues in the past, more the direction we chose to push into. I am feeling pretty good about the results of that push!
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08-16-2016, 09:42 PM
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Looks super sweet!!
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Circa OM-30/34 (Adi/Mad) | 000-12 (Ger/Maple) | OM-28 (Adi/Brz) | OM-18/21 (Adi/Hog) | OM-42 (Adi/Braz) Fairbanks SJ (Adi/Hog) | Schoenberg/Klepper 000-12c (Adi/Hog) | LeGeyt CLM (Swiss/Amzn) | LeGeyt CLM (Carp/Koa) Brondel A-2 (Carp/Mad) |
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08-16-2016, 11:19 PM
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i'z be diggin it...!
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08-17-2016, 02:42 AM
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Nice, very spicy!
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08-17-2016, 06:34 PM
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Love how the OOO turned out Bruce.
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08-17-2016, 07:49 PM
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Thanks for the attention, folks!
On to the next little thing. I buffed out the Pear 0 body today, and will get to the neck next. Here's the body not yet mishandled (I am my own worst enemy in this way):  The medulary display is unusually intense on this top:  This Pear looks far more interesting in person than the photos suggest, at least to my eye:   Did you know I soak my parchment labels in shellac and use HHG to hold them in place?   
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08-17-2016, 10:24 PM
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Man I thought that last pernambuco backed guitar you made was sexy but this pear wood has a lot of class too! Beautiful all the way around.
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08-18-2016, 10:33 AM
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As many readers will surely recall, my previous Pear guitar, a 000, got quite a lot of positive critical attention. It was named guitar of the year right here in this forum, and also got acclaim from both Acoustic Guitar Magazine and PegHead Nation. Perhaps I am a bit too close to my work to be a great judge, but to me while the guitar was a fine example of what I do and certainly unique (they all are), I missed it being 11 on a scale of 10. Still, perhaps it was, and I look forward to seeing people's reaction to this single 0 at the SBAIC event.
This morning I am headed to the phlebotomist a week before my annual physical. I expect to get to the neck this afternoon. Thanks for reading. |
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08-18-2016, 02:44 PM
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Perhaps you are interested is seeing the difference between sanded to 2000, buffed with the medium rouge, and buffed with the fine rouge? If not, don't look any further.
   Although the light is a bit different on each, what I expect you to observe is how much more detail shows up in the clearer surface. Here's the other side:    Now I will go glue the neck to the body. |
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08-19-2016, 06:05 PM
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A few people have noticed that my birds are all different, which reasonable since they are hand cut, but it has been a while since I have used an entirely new outline as my starting point. A loooong while, and I started doing the birds in the mid '70's, and except for an egret I rarely use, there has been no change I recall.
Not that there's been no change in the birds themselves, they have evolved considerably. There was a time when I cut the little birds right on the line. Here's a picture of the template and line I am referring to:  Today I have cut my first new "gull" in at least 25 years, and also 4 of my latest interpretations of the lines in the previous photo. I think of these as my contemporary equivalent of Martin's "short diamond" pattern, so they are at the 5th, 7th, and 9th frets.  The 5 bird pattern is one of my standard options, along with actual diamonds and squares, a pattern of dots in various sizes, or no inlay at all. |
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08-20-2016, 10:28 AM
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