Inspiration sometime comes in unusual ways

[jklotz]

I liked it better when I thought it was honeycomb cereal.

[cigarfan]

Love okra. Special ingredient in my Brunswick stew. Gonna be a tasty inlay.

[Mary]

This is an organic okra guitar. I imagine it would taste about the same!

[SongwriterFan]

Originally Posted by Mary

I would think it could be tolerable IF it had an inch of a good beer batter surrounding it to dodge the flavor of the okra.

Nope, nope, nope. One RUINS okra by covering it completely in batter. Which, unfortunately, just about how everybody seems to make it.

The secret is to use just SOME corn meal. You don't want to cover it completely. That's the way my grandmothers made it.

BTW, as an Okie, I can tell this joke:

Q: Why is Oklahoma OK?
A: Because Oklahoman can't spell mediocre.

When somebody first told me that (a year ago), I replied that of course we know how to spell it . . . medi-okra!


Here ya go . . . this is what is should look like . . . NOT covered in batter:

https://addapinch.com/fried-okra-recipe/

[Tim McKnight]

Man oh man, you guys sure know how to make a guy hungry. So... back on topic here is some progression on the rosette.

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[Guitars44me]

Originally Posted by SongwriterFan

Nope, nope, nope. One RUINS okra by covering it completely in batter. Which, unfortunately, just about how everybody seems to make it.

The secret is to use just SOME corn meal. You don't want to cover it completely. That's the way my grandmothers made it.

BTW, as an Okie, I can tell this joke:

Q: Why is Oklahoma OK?
A: Because Oklahoman can't spell mediocre.

When somebody first told me that (a year ago), I replied that of course we know how to spell it . . . medi-okra!


Here ya go . . . this is what is should look like . . . NOT covered in batter:

https://addapinch.com/fried-okra-recipe/

I bet this is YUMMY. And the guitar will be Yummy for sure

Paul

[Tim McKnight]

Well I managed to get the rosette into the Torrefied Adirondack Spruce top over the last two days. The Okra segments (of green poplar and sugar maple) were tacked into the routed cavity with CA glue while I ground some banded malachite stone into fine dust to fill in the void between the segments.

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[SJ VanSandt]

Originally Posted by Mary

Eww... Okra - I had never heard of this until just a few years ago. I would think it could be tolerable IF it had an inch of a good beer batter surrounding it to dodge the flavor of the okra.

Pickled okra is also good. Cuts the slime.

[CarolD]

Originally Posted by Tim McKnight

WINNER(s) Winner(s) Chicken Dinner(s) You can expect your prize in the mail most any day now and thanks for playing along!

Long story short, we went out to dinner and they were all raving about Okra but I have to admit its certainly an acquired taste which we've not yet acquired None the less it was a source of inspiration for us to incorporate an unusual natural design into a guitar in some way.

Yay us! Funny we both posted at exactly the same time. And I have always LOVED okra! We eat it with onions cooked in tomato sauce, or put it in some spicy hot chili!

And that rosette is BEAUTIFUL!

[joe white]

I posted this in another thread Tim but I'll also ask here. Will the body shape for this okra guitar be a grand okra-stra? (Ducking my head now) LOL

[FLRon]

I was raised on fried okra. Still love it.

[j. Kinnaird]

Mmmm okra. Good stuff.
If you let those pods dry out they get hard and you can inlay them directly into a fretboard.

And Ryan file is added to any gumbo as a thickener. Its ground up sassafras leaves you know. I have made my own file for gumbo when the stores were out of the stuff.

[j. Kinnaird]

Originally Posted by Tim McKnight

Well I managed to get the rosette into the Torrefied Adirondack Spruce top over the last two days. The Okra segments (of green poplar and sugar maple) were tacked into the routed cavity with CA glue while I ground some banded malachite stone into fine dust to fill in the void between the segments.

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Tum that is beyond clever. Did you use the CNC to cut those segments?

[Tim McKnight]

Originally Posted by CarolD

And that rosette is BEAUTIFUL!

Thanks Carol.

Originally Posted by joe white

I posted this in another thread Tim but I'll also ask here. Will the body shape for this okra guitar be a grand okra-stra? (Ducking my head now) LOL

Now that’s funny Joe!

Originally Posted by j. Kinnaird

Tum that is beyond clever. Did you use the CNC to cut those segments?

I did. Still have a lot of hand work to go.

[Tim McKnight]

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Mixed Malachite dust with epoxy resin and pored it over the Okra segments.





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Force the green slime into all the nooks and crannies.





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The top goes into the vacuum clamp to pull the resin down and remove the air bubbles.