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Very attractive work and choice materials, major impressive...!
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Thank you very much! I'll be sure to post some more shop dog pics as well...
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Welcome to the forum Chris !!
Those guitars look beautiful... I look forward to watching the builds as well ! Dan |
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Here are some pictures of the tuning machines. They're handmade by Klaus Scheller in Germany and I think they are some of the most well made and smooth turning tuners on the market... although I'm sure I haven't seen them all! The lighter one has snakewood buttons and the dark one is polished black horn.
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Hi Chris, love what you're doing. The redwood, cocobolo and amboyna are gorgeous, the design is very nice, and how lucky you are to have Jeff Elliott as your mentor. I think you are going to do great things.
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Awesome Chris. Really interesting thread with lots of curious and new (to me) things. That Blackwood center lower bout, all the way thru for string anchor is quite unique. Hope you delve into that a little more.
Your rosettes are gorgeous. And the fact that both will be French polish is really nice. I'll be following.
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I think it's understandable that a classical guitar builder would tend to build a flatter fretboard since the tradition in that world is to build flat without a radius. I haven't developed a standard yet for my steel strings but in the case of these commissions I'm just building to the player desires and found out what neck shape and radius they were used to playing with. In both cases I'll be doing a 16" radius. I usually do a hybrid D/C for the neck shape. Thanks for taking a look! Best, Chris |
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Now to play catch up on the Redwood... this top takes a long time to brace but here are a few pictures early on!
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Upper harmonic bars have been installed and the opening for the blackwood insert has been routed. I use a routing template that I made just for this purpose.
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Very interesting indeed
I, too am smitten by the spalted rosettes! Man are they looking fine!!! Your service dog is a beauty too...
Please keep the pics and info coming. Thanks for sharing with us all. Cheers Pau
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Nothing to add but thanks! We see so many super-complicated, bling-y builds that it's a real pleasure to see guitars like yours that are extraordinarily detailed but in a non-ostentatious, organic and unified way. Personally, I like every one of your choices very much -- including the use of French Polish, which in my experience is the most musical and most beautiful finish. Wonderful, inspiring work!
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