The Acoustic Guitar Forum

Go Back   The Acoustic Guitar Forum > General Acoustic Guitar and Amplification Discussion > Custom Shop

Closed Thread
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 04-03-2016, 09:51 AM
Mark Hatcher's Avatar
Mark Hatcher Mark Hatcher is offline
AGF Sponsor
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Green Mountains
Posts: 4,848
Default Hatcher Studio '16 #2

This is a continuation of Hatcher Studio '16; http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/f...411876&page=21

I have four guitars that I have been building as my "Show Spec Series". My first two are sold and the third one is a small jumbo Josie model with a highly quilted maple back and side set, it is currently at the finisher. That leaves my fourth guitar which will be a Penelope Black Ebony guitar with lots of abalone and an elevated fretboard. The back and side set comes from this group of sets all cut from the same billet;



But this is where a guitar really starts;



I bring this up because I've recently had an epiphany that I'd like to share.
I've felt guilty because technology has been advancing for quite awhile for drafting plan layouts. There's CAD, Sketch-Up, Illustrator, all kinds of great ways to draw up designs and here I am like an old Luddite sitting at a drafting table. When my brother needs to do a quick sketch he reaches for his laptop not a pencil.
So here's my epiphany; Guitars aren't large, I can draw an entire guitar on this table full scale. I'm going to build it full scale so it's better to draw it full scale. So lets say I'm designing a bridge like so;



Once drawn I can look at it this way and that until I'm happy with it's lines and size. After that it get's drawn on the wood blank and cut out;



See anything familiar? It's the same pencil drawing and now I'm going to use the band saw and follow those curves again. But it's going to be easier because I've already followed those curves by hand a couple times while drawing them full scale.

I think as builders we all need to be the gate keepers for what and how we let technology in and not just reach for the next new shiny thing.

And we're off!



Thanks for getting through all that!
Mark
__________________
Mark Hatcher
www.hatcherguitars.com


“Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”. Andrew Fletcher
  #2  
Old 04-03-2016, 09:58 AM
lizzard lizzard is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Woodstock, Illinois
Posts: 1,419
Default

"...the degree of attentiveness that we bring to an occasion ennobles or demeans it."
Frank Bruni NY Times


Amen, Bro.

Now back to the hot female divorce lawyers......

unabashedly - Chris
__________________
The Electrics check

The Acoustics

Tom Doerr - Trinity. Flamed Maple under Swiss
Tom Doerr - M/D. Braz under Red
  #3  
Old 04-03-2016, 12:11 PM
lizzard lizzard is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Woodstock, Illinois
Posts: 1,419
Default

oh, and... "Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water"
__________________
The Electrics check

The Acoustics

Tom Doerr - Trinity. Flamed Maple under Swiss
Tom Doerr - M/D. Braz under Red
  #4  
Old 04-05-2016, 04:15 PM
ukejon ukejon is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Milwaukee
Posts: 6,603
Default

Quote:
I think as builders we all need to be the gate keepers for what and how we let technology in and not just reach for the next new shiny thing.
Amen to that, Brother Hatcher. One need not be a Luddite to believe in the merits of what your are saying.
__________________
My YouTube Page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ukejon



2014 Pono N30 DC EIR/Spruce crossover
2009 Pono koa parlor (NAMM prototype)
2018 Maton EBG808TEC
2014 Hatcher Greta 13 fret cutaway in EIR/cedar
2017 Hatcher Josie fan fret mahogany
1973 Sigma GCR7 (OM model) rosewood and spruce
2014 Rainsong OM1000N2
....and about 5 really nice tenor ukuleles at any given moment
  #5  
Old 04-07-2016, 01:24 PM
Mark Hatcher's Avatar
Mark Hatcher Mark Hatcher is offline
AGF Sponsor
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Green Mountains
Posts: 4,848
Default

Here is an update on the show spec guitars. The BRW Greta model is back from the finisher and I am French polishing the top. Not much to see in that process but, there is enough on there that we can now see the color of the cedar top;



I'm happy with how well the color goes with the sapwood on the sides;



My Penelope model is coming along. I finished the rosette today and am including another picture to show how I am handling the back strip:





The top is Swiss moon spruce.

Thanks for viewing!
Mark
__________________
Mark Hatcher
www.hatcherguitars.com


“Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”. Andrew Fletcher
  #6  
Old 04-07-2016, 02:15 PM
ross748 ross748 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Northeast
Posts: 232
Default

Love Ebony with Koa and abalone 👍
  #7  
Old 04-07-2016, 02:19 PM
Nemoman Nemoman is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: N. California
Posts: 3,136
Default

That ebony is some striking wood.....looks very elegant with the narrow abalone.
__________________
2013 Stehr Auditorium (Carpathian/Myrtle)
2015 Stehr Auditorium (Adi/BRW)
2020 Baranik Meridian (Blue Spruce/Manchinga)
2020 Wilborn Arum (Tunnel 14/Coco)
2021 Kinnaird Graybeard (BC Cedar/Bog Oak)
2022 Kinnaird CS Student Build (Adi/Padauk)
2023 Kinnaird FS (Italian/Koa)
  #8  
Old 04-07-2016, 03:35 PM
lizzard lizzard is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Woodstock, Illinois
Posts: 1,419
Default

__________________
The Electrics check

The Acoustics

Tom Doerr - Trinity. Flamed Maple under Swiss
Tom Doerr - M/D. Braz under Red
  #9  
Old 04-08-2016, 04:01 AM
Mark Hatcher's Avatar
Mark Hatcher Mark Hatcher is offline
AGF Sponsor
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Green Mountains
Posts: 4,848
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ross748 View Post
Love Ebony with Koa and abalone ��
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemoman View Post
That ebony is some striking wood.....looks very elegant with the narrow abalone.
Thanks. There is such an elegance in Black Ebony and it sure makes a little abalone shine! Of the four specs in this series this is the one that's getting the whole abalone treatment. The black ebony just seems to add some dignity to all that sparkle.

Quote:
Originally Posted by lizzard View Post
Glad you like what you see there!

Mark
__________________
Mark Hatcher
www.hatcherguitars.com


“Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”. Andrew Fletcher
  #10  
Old 04-08-2016, 04:34 AM
dlowry dlowry is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Lille, France
Posts: 160
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Hatcher View Post




Mark
Nice rosette! I have a weakness for slim abalone rings to accentuate a wood rosette without being over-blingy. Is that 1.2mm ZipFlex?

Drew
  #11  
Old 04-08-2016, 10:01 AM
lizzard lizzard is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Woodstock, Illinois
Posts: 1,419
Default

Mark,

If you can just sell the others, You bonus yourself the exhibit and travel expenses.

I'm doing MY part!



Chris
__________________
The Electrics check

The Acoustics

Tom Doerr - Trinity. Flamed Maple under Swiss
Tom Doerr - M/D. Braz under Red
  #12  
Old 04-08-2016, 10:55 AM
Steve Kinnaird's Avatar
Steve Kinnaird Steve Kinnaird is offline
AGF Sponsor
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Nacogdoches, TX
Posts: 3,598
Default

Lovely work as usual, Mark. Especially like this shot:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Hatcher View Post


Steve
__________________
www.stephenkinnaird.com

Crafted in the Piney Woods
  #13  
Old 04-08-2016, 02:50 PM
Mark Hatcher's Avatar
Mark Hatcher Mark Hatcher is offline
AGF Sponsor
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Green Mountains
Posts: 4,848
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by dlowry View Post
Nice rosette! I have a weakness for slim abalone rings to accentuate a wood rosette without being over-blingy. Is that 1.2mm ZipFlex?

Drew
Hi Drew,

Yes it is. I'll be using it throughout the guitar along with other abalone fpr inlays on the fretboard and end graft. It just take a thin line to really shine on that black background.

Quote:
Originally Posted by lizzard View Post
Mark,

If you can just sell the others, You bonus yourself the exhibit and travel expenses.

I'm doing MY part!



Chris
Well you won't hear me complain about selling these! It will be awhile before I do my first show so I already am putting together my ideas on how and what to replace these with. And I appreciate the part your doing!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Kinnaird View Post
Lovely work as usual, Mark. Especially like this shot:
Steve
Thanks Steve! I haven't done any French polish in a while. It's great to get back into the groove.

Thank you everyone!
Mark
__________________
Mark Hatcher
www.hatcherguitars.com


“Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”. Andrew Fletcher
  #14  
Old 04-11-2016, 12:28 PM
Mark Hatcher's Avatar
Mark Hatcher Mark Hatcher is offline
AGF Sponsor
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Green Mountains
Posts: 4,848
Default Show Spec second round ​Piña

My ideas are coming together for spec guitars to replace the show specs that have sold. With spec guitars I like to use wood sets that I have more of in case someone says they want one that looks like that but, in a different model or modification of the same.

I am going to start a replacement for my ​Piña on May first. Here is my plan;
I have a couple sets of this beautiful bacon figured Padauk and have been wanting to build with it because it has such a promising tap tone;



So here goes. Here is the back set;



With master grade Swiss Moon Spruce;



Black Ebony trim and fretboard, black Schertler tuners for open headstock, flamed Hard Maple neck, and gold MOP;



I'm not sure where or exactly how but this gold MOP has got to go in here somewhere. Look at all that iridescent green in there against that red;



I'm working on ideas to replace the Greta and will have those up soon!

Thanks for checking this out,
Mark
__________________
Mark Hatcher
www.hatcherguitars.com


“Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.”. Andrew Fletcher
  #15  
Old 04-11-2016, 12:36 PM
LouieAtienza LouieAtienza is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 4,617
Default

Mmmmm, bacon! Some beautiful Padauk there, always loved the look of ebony against it. Though I still call it vermillion.
Closed Thread

  The Acoustic Guitar Forum > General Acoustic Guitar and Amplification Discussion > Custom Shop

Thread Tools





All times are GMT -6. The time now is 01:00 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Copyright ©2000 - 2022, The Acoustic Guitar Forum
vB Ad Management by =RedTyger=