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Old 08-16-2018, 04:17 PM
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I love this Tom! It's going to be fun to watch this thread and I'm very interested to hear what this wonderful guitar will sound like. This is like my ideal guitar- short scale, 12 fret, not too big or too small, redwood top, rosewood back and sides.... I'm living this one vicariously!

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Tom, you know I LOVE redwood, and that particular plank looks great! Very happy to follow this build along, my friend.
And me you! Wanna race?

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Well, well, well. Another in a long succession. And top-shelf with the roar of a Lion no less! Awesome guys but then we have come to expect nothing less from Ben and Tom. This is going to be loads of fun to watch! Congrats on what looks to be wonderful guitar.
I think it will be wonderful, I mean how could it not with that shelf or gazebo, or back yard fence or deck flooring hahaha! You know first hand how good it will sound!

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I love this Tom! It's going to be fun to watch this thread and I'm very interested to hear what this wonderful guitar will sound like. This is like my ideal guitar- short scale, 12 fret, not too big or too small, redwood top, rosewood back and sides.... I'm living this one vicariously!

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Thank you Beth, you have a Kinnaird and know what I like in sound. Someday I will have to get a Wilborn in your hands also haha!!!! These Lions are really comfortable to play and they sound like a big boy or girl guitar! Ben always does a great intro video at the end so you will surely be able to hear it under the hands of a great player!
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The Adams Family song just popped into my head for some reason.
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The Adams Family song just popped into my head for some reason.
Well at least no light bulbs were involved!
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No racing, Tom, Ben's a madman!
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Default The first pictures have arrived!

Ben makes his own bindings and purflings. In this case they will be snakewood bindings with maple and black veneer lines. Here are some still photos of the process. Ben sent me a really cool time lapsed video, but I can not embed it here which is too bad:

Ben uses his thickness sander to achieve the thickness he wants. In this case Sankewood binding, 3/100 of an inch of Maple, 0.02 of black and finally 0.01 of Maple again.

Sending the Maple through the sander:

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Checking final results...look how cool the handle for the depth gauge is lol!

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How they will look when glued:

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All laid out ready to be glued in the correct order hopefully!

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Old 08-18-2018, 06:48 PM
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Default And the shelf cut into a top

Well, maybe I will have to concede that Ben was right about this shelf. Looks mighty fine now!

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Very nice Tom n’ Ben... Definitely top shelf stuff!
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Well, maybe I will have to concede that Ben was right about this shelf. Looks mighty fine now!

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Tom, that’s an absolutely beautiful top!
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Really enjoying this thread, Tom. Great looks and information, and ridiculously fun!
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I love the cross-grain patterns on this top - it's going to tie in with the snakewood binding beautifully. And the grain lines themselves are beautiful - wet and dry years creating a subtle design element as well. This build thread business is just too much fun, isn't it?
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Very nice Tom n’ Ben... Definitely top shelf stuff!
Thanks Bob, so far so good, keeping to the top shelf, no generic booze for me!

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Tom, that’s an absolutely beautiful top!
Thanks Mike, hate to admit it but I guess Ben knows what he's talking about.

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Really enjoying this thread, Tom. Great looks and information, and ridiculously fun!
Yeah we can all be serious about guitars but it's fun to have someone to screw around with like Ben too.
, and still end up with a great instrument.


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I love the cross-grain patterns on this top - it's going to tie in with the snakewood binding beautifully. And the grain lines themselves are beautiful - wet and dry years creating a subtle design element as well. This build thread business is just too much fun, isn't it?
I agree, and the treatment Ben is planning on doing should accent those cross streaks even more.
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Old 08-19-2018, 04:17 PM
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Bindings and some purflings are done and they came out just great. That Snakewood is really such a cool look! Special stuff!

So here they are all glued up just waiting to be sliced!

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Ben has a mini table saw set up for cuttings bindings. I saw this in person when visiting Reno this spring. Nice to see it working for me!

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Here they are sliced and lookin good!

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Love this picture. Just look at that Snakewood grain. I think this has replaced curly Koa as my favorite bindings.

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I used to cringe at snakewood, but it’s really appealing to me now. After Laurent Brondel made a guitar with a snakewood fretboard it grew on me. Those bindings looking really outstanding.

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Old 08-19-2018, 04:31 PM
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Yes, that looks really sharp! Bridge too right?
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