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With summer behind me and the garden nearly completely wrapped up it suddenly feels like NAMM isn’t that far away.
For this years show I’ll be bringing two instruments, both with euro maple back and sides and Italian spruce soundboards. Here’s the material! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Wow! Can't wait to follow this thread! Not sure where you're sourcing your Euro maple but all of your maple instruments have been stunning!
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My No. 4 in birdseye maple is a fabulous guitar. Dion, what model will you build with the birdseye maple above?
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Thanks!! I bought this wood from Bachman tonewoods in Italy.
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Glad to hear you’re loving your guitar, I’m thrilled you’ve got it! Both of these are going to be in the same model as yours. I’m just stuck on it, I like the lines so much.
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![]() ![]() My aesthetic sense is to always restrain myself from ornamentation. So much so that I spent most of the day agonizing over weather this .5mm back strip was too much.
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Looks very tasteful to me!
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2 more than I really need. |
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Best, Jayne |
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I feel the same, it’s nice to hear it from others. Thanks for the reply, let me know how you like it as it comes together!
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Progress! I seem to only take photos when the sun shines , I hear that’s the time to make hay.
Blocks are in, rims joined up. Rosettes inlaid, heading towards soundboard bracing. Here are a few photos of the week thus far. Structured side before it meets its mate. ![]() One of the rims about to be joined. ![]() Blocks shaped and shellacked. ![]() Heal block for #35, plus part of my thumb. [emoji51] ![]() Cleaning up one of the rosettes ![]() Soundboards with rosettes, not soundhole. ![]() Close up of one of the rosettes. ![]()
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It’s been cloudy, making for less desirable photo conditions. Here’s a quick shot of part of the bracing, nearly fully cleaned.
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Beautiful work!
I don't generally like backstrips but prefer them on curly wood in that the curl never entirely lines up. |
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Beautiful Maple! Woohoo
I like the slim backstrip too. Looking FINE Paul
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FOR SALE: 2014 Taylor Custom 516e figured Mahogany/BC Sitka FOR SALE: 1996 Taylor K15c All Koa Jumbo Cut 2 John Kinnaird Customs + #5 coming... R.T 2c 12 fret Custom A few 90s Taylors ![]() Still Too many, but "OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER, TOO YOUNG TO CARE!" |
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Thanks! Same here. These ones felt right, the strip complimented the wood rather than distracting from it.
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