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05-16-2018, 02:26 AM
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new member
Hello everybody - I hope I post this at the right place.
My name is as appears (Manos), architect, amateur luthier, Greece. As a bouzouki player (I don't play the guitar) I started building (Greek) bouzouki's family instruments - but the spark to get into making at the first place was a little vintage parlor guitar I bought a few years ago (in order to learn to play - never did, the making got me tight). Last year I started to build guitars, a certain type of folk guitar ("laiki" in Greek, means "folk", used in Rembetiko music; based mostly on European romantic and parlor guitars, developed in Greece during 1920's - 60's). Steel strings, ladder bracing, neck joint at the 12th fret. Smaller body size, 62-64 cm scale (24-25"). Here is my latest construction I joined the forum (that I often visit) just a few hours ago. By the way, congratulations to everybody for the quality / information of the discussions. My current project is an acoustic lap steel guitar : not a "full sized" Hawaiian, just a box-shaped trapezoid body. I have so many questions for this one, and I figured that this is the right place to get some answers. I have searched the forum, but didn't find a discussion that could follow. Should I open a new thread for a lap steel construction ? if that's all right, would "Build and Repair" be the right place to do so ? Thank you in advance. Last edited by Manos Tourpalis; 05-16-2018 at 02:32 AM. 
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05-16-2018, 04:11 AM
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Welcome Manos. I am actually getting ready to walk out the door to and drive to a nearby town in Ohio called Xenia (E,evia) which supposedly translates to “hospitality/friendship” in your language. I think you will find both of those attributes in this forum!
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05-16-2018, 04:42 AM
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Hello Manos, welcome to AGF. You might want to checkout the Custom Shop sub forum where other builders show and discuss their projects — here https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...splay.php?f=38
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05-16-2018, 05:24 AM
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Manos, Welcome to the AGF.
The Build and Repair sub-forum is the place for your questions thread. https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...splay.php?f=44
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#6
05-16-2018, 07:49 AM
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Nice introduction. Welcome!
Last edited by Dirk Hofman; 05-17-2018 at 06:16 AM. Reason: Spelling
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#7
05-16-2018, 09:41 PM
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Hi Manos,
Do you ever get to Limnos? A friend here has a house on the island that he spends about half the year at.
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#8
05-17-2018, 05:37 AM
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thanks for the welcoming (and the suggestions)!
I'll open a thread at Build and Repair @ Jeff I visited Limnos once - I don't know, maybe 18-19 years ago.. beautiful island (aren't all?) ... I envy your friend
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05-17-2018, 05:30 PM
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My friend's family is from there although he was born and raised in the US. I have never been there but he keeps threatening me
 to go as I'd have a place to stay, not to mention he has a darkroom there for me to print my old black & white negatives.
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