Wren Guitar Works : Sitka / Madagascar MS-1 Build Thread - Page 9

RGPGuitars · #**121** 05-21-2018, 02:26 PM

Another stunner Dave. And the French Polish is amazing. I know, and appreciate all the advice you gave me on FP, but after 8 guitars I gave up. And I'm a persistent sob. Lol. Russ

David Wren · #**122** 05-22-2018, 06:47 AM

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Another stunner Dave. And the French Polish is amazing. I know, and appreciate all the advice you gave me on FP, but after 8 guitars I gave up. And I'm a persistent sob. Lol. Russ

Hey Russ ... thanks!

David Wren · #**123** 05-22-2018, 06:50 AM

Should hopefully start having some finished shots of the guitar tomorrow.

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David Wren · #**124** 05-23-2018, 03:54 PM

Here's the first shot of the finished instrument. The sides are gorgeous, but the grain didn't match up at all at either end. The end graft helped tie things together, and it ended up having a sort of "impending prairie storm skyskape" sort of look in the end!

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Zandit75 · #**125** 05-23-2018, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by David Wren

Here's the first shot of the finished instrument. The sides are gorgeous, but the grain didn't match up at all at either end. The end graft helped tie things together, and it ended up having a sort of "impending prairie storm skyskape" sort of look in the end!

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I still can't get over how you pulled that off, looks fantastic!

RGPGuitars · #**126** 05-24-2018, 05:03 AM

Well Dave, I don't see where the end grain doesn't match up. If anyone else can I would be surprised. Looks like the sides are all one piece not two, with the inlay done just for the beauty of it, not to join 2 pieces of wood !!! Lucky for you I live an hour and a bit away or I'd be bugging you to work with you again . Lol

David Wren · #**127** 05-24-2018, 05:41 AM

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I still can't get over how you pulled that off, looks fantastic!

Hi Zandit ... thanks for the kind words ... I'm happy with the way it turned out!

David Wren · #**128** 05-24-2018, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by RGPGuitars

Well Dave, I don't see where the end grain doesn't match up. If anyone else can I would be surprised. Looks like the sides are all one piece not two, with the inlay done just for the beauty of it, not to join 2 pieces of wood !!! Lucky for you I live an hour and a bit away or I'd be bugging you to work with you again . Lol

Thanks Russ! I'm going to do a time lapse video of the end graft going together, in conjunction with the audio file, for the last post on this thread. You'll see the mismatch and then the hoops I jumped through to try to pull it together. Lots of fun!

David Wren · #**129** 05-24-2018, 05:45 AM

Steve Kinnaird · #**130** 05-24-2018, 09:26 AM

Beautiful...just beautiful!

Steve

JDaniel · #**131** 05-24-2018, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by David Wren

...The sides are gorgeous, but the grain didn't match up at all at either end. The end graft helped tie things together, and it ended up having a sort of "impending prairie storm skyskape" sort of look in the end!

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The sides actually look like a single continuous piece of wood. Very impressive technical wizardry matched with pure artistic & design mastery!

David Wren · #**132** 05-24-2018, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve Kinnaird

Beautiful...just beautiful!

Steve

Hey Steve ... thanks ... much appreciated!

David Wren · #**133** 05-24-2018, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by JDaniel

The sides actually look like a single continuous piece of wood. Very impressive technical wizardry matched with pure artistic & design mastery!

Hi J ... thanks for the kind words ... much appreciated for sure!

David Wren · #**134** 05-24-2018, 11:26 AM

David Wren · #**135** 05-25-2018, 06:28 AM