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Beautiful work. And to date I’ve got two disks on the stack!
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...just...WOW! duff Be A Player...Not A Polisher |
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Thanks Paul, It's a fun build and this Fiddleback Tree wood is very nice mahogany to work with. It's not just all looks! Why yes you do! Maybe we'll get another little one in there if this uke building works out! Quote:
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I agree. That rosette is very tasty.
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Thanks for commenting Growler!
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Mark, what is the tube on that disk cutter? A vacuum?
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Ugh.
I just finished my first acoustic build. I am so proud of it. Then I look at what you are making............... ........so depressing. You do great work. Your guitars are an inspiration. |
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Close but, the air is going the other way. It’s attached to a little air pump and helps blow sawdust out of the way so you can see and it doesn’t build up under the cutter.
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Downstairs in the basement On the rack of shame If you’d like we could compare your guitar to that one it would likely not be so depressing! Guitars are hard to make and all you ever see are the mistakes you made while building them. You just get better at seeing your mistakes as you get better. That probably doesn’t sound encouraging. It is an addictive habit. I wish you all the best! Mark
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Im sure there would be huge interest in that post!!
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All of the the luthiers show photos of their first build, and the rest of the community tries to guess which guitar belongs to which luthier??!! We could call it the AGF Hall of Shfame!!!
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Haha, was worth a try!![emoji1787]
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Braces and More
I've selected billets, split out the wood for braces, measured, sorted, profiled, and matched the brace blanks for the guitar. Here is a picture of the back with the bracing being glued up:
On another note: For delivery next year I am building another "Tree" guitar. This is a custom order and we've been discussing which wood to use for the top. We started with Swiss Moon Spruce and have recently been discussing Redwood. Either wood can work great for making a wonderful sounding "tree" guitar. We're exploring the various looks of Redwoods to see if we can find a nice match and strong visual appeal but, too much figure in the Redwood could easily conflict with all the "tree" figure. So we're looking for the Goldielocks Redwood top. I found a well quarter sawn Redwood board that is 2" thick and big enough to cut maybe 8 top sets from. It is has some curl and one side has some wonderful black grain lines. The other side is pretty clean but, still some curl. I'm thinking we'll get quite a variety of matched tops and I'm hopeful the perfect top is in there somewhere. Here is one of the billets: I think it kind of looks like Koa: Super tight grain as well: The re-sawing went very well. The center slices are pretty moist so I'm stickering it all for a couple weeks before making any judgements: Lots and lots of sticks in this stickering process! Thanks for viewing! Mark
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Fiddleback Rosette and back
Here is a picture show the Fiddleback guitars rosette, logo, and back together:
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