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Greta ready for finish
I'm just wrapping up this Greta for finish. It's cedar over Black Walnut with a walnut neck and Venetian cut away. Trimmed with Black and Macassar ebony with abalone all around. The rosette and arm bevel inlays are spalted Tamarind. I made a very similar one for Cigarfan a couple years ago. I've got a little more clean up work to do and it will be ready to go Monday:
Thanks for viewing! Mark
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That is a very stunning guitar, Mark!
Love the inlays in the arm bevel and the carry-through to the soundport. Awesome! Hope you'll do a video of it when finished...
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Do something bad for a change.
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10 out of 10 on this one!
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That abalone looks great against the fingerboard, classy.
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There are some clips in this thread. Post #176
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I'm getting very excited about my guitar and look forward to its completion. Mark has been awesome to work with. |
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If you ever come visit my studio ask to see my “rack of shame”. I’ll guarantee you’ll never see it on AGF! Thanks for commenting Tom. A guitar like this might look nice in that beautiful cabinet you’re having made! Thanks Bill! I try to keep that abalone bordering black, it certainly sparkles. Quote:
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Thanks for commenting Tom. A guitar like this might look nice in that beautiful cabinet you’re having made! Haha, yes, there is no doubt about that....Walnut in Walnut, red cedar with white cedar....hmmm, I might have to give that more thought!!!!!
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That's nuts!
I've got this idea to do an all New Hampshire guitar. I have a number of local Red Spruce tops. Backs could be Black Walnut, Hard Maple, and I've got a bunch of wild Black Cherry. Cherry would make good internal parts like kerf, heel and tail blocks. Shagbark Hickory would make a decent fret board and bridge.
I just got what seems like a natural for the nut and saddle, Moose antler: The trick is whether it is strong enough and has a nice ringing ping when I tap it on my granite block: Well, this is going to be a bit. The inner core is just too porous and probably not strong enough. It pings nice. The outer layer seems great and it polished up very nicely. It's going to take a lot of antler to find outer layer material suitably large enough to get a nut and a saddle but, I don't need more than one of each to make a guitar.
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Hmm, JustStrings.com is in a little town just over the mountain. Does that count? I make my own tuner buttons but, tuners are going to be a trick. I have a friend who is a retired knife maker and I could have gotten his metal working machines which would allowed me to make tuners but, that didn’t occur to me then.
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How much of a geek am I, when the first thing I think of when I look at the shot at the top of the page is, "cool truss rod cover"?
Gorgeous instrument Mark!
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Not really a geek, just an eye for detail! Can’t build great guitars without one. Doing a quick mental inventory of all the individual pieces I come up with roughly 150 parts that a builder uses to make a guitar. The vast majority of which are fashioned on all six sides and set into place to make a guitar. Lot’s of room for the devil in all those details, so you got to keep your eye on them! Mark
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