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10-04-2018, 09:31 AM
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10-04-2018, 09:34 AM
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Nope (phew) and life is good once again. We hope to share a few more pictures in the next day or so.
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10-06-2018, 08:52 AM
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Tim and Mary came over and let me play the new Slim Slope Dred yesterday. Wow what a treat the guitar is stunning. First thing I notice when I held it was a perfect neck and setup. I am extremely picky about guitar necks and setups, always seem to change them with a new guitar. This was absolutely perfect, I have never played better and I have played a lot of guitars. The guitar was clear, articulate, and rang seemingly forever. Great sustain. Whomever buys this I’m sure will be more than pleased. I acquired one of Tim’s few Slim Slope Dreds several years ago. It’s basically the only guitar I play, nothing really in my stable can compete with it.
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Glad you were able to let us have a little time with you, Steve! Thanks for hanging in there with us as we shared the details!
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10-06-2018, 08:18 PM
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 Been enjoying catching up on a few of the threads here and seeing what you guys have been up to. Beautiful work as always.Ken
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10-12-2018, 07:23 AM
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Sorry its been a while since we've last updated this thread. Here are some color coordinated side dots that turned out kind of cool IMO. Turquoise dots on the Choker:
 ... and Bloodwood dots on the Aquarius:  Plus matching dots on the ebony bridge pins: 
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10-14-2018, 12:17 PM
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Awesome stuff as usual Tim! Hope to see you in a couple!
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10-15-2018, 06:51 AM
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When the moon ...
 is in the 7th house ...  and Jupiter is aligned with Mars ... 
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Tim, Tim, Tim... if you keep executing light-in-light sound port inlays so flawlessly, you'll just encourage Mary to think up even more difficult tasks.
Wow that's some nice work. Makes ME want (not to go and do likewise) but to think up something ridiculous for you to do! Hahaha Steve
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10-18-2018, 07:24 AM
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It seems like a shame to take a sander to a newly finished, nice shiny guitar but hey its just part of the process:
 After dry sanding the final coat of finish with 600, 1000 and 1500 grit sand papers the final sanding course is done wet with 2000 grit. It gets a little sudsy as the sander works up a nice lather:   After the sanding is done then its off to the buffing wheels to buff the necks and bodies with four different grits of buffing compound:  Please don't call Marshal Dillon. I really don't rob trains or ride a horse: 
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10-18-2018, 01:05 PM
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I tend to find it harder to sleep when there is an upcoming guitar show. I awaken in the middle of the night and quickly draw what first comes to mind guitar speaking. Poor Tim wakes up to find the notes and drawings of the outer aesthetics sitting on his office desk. Long ago one of our customers called and told us what he would like to see something particular on his custom built guitar. The customer said, "Mary will design it and you're an engineer so you can do it." So that's what I repeat to Tim any time I come up with a wacky design. In this case I wanted to blend light trim on light wood to be soft on the eye and to give the eye that desire to squint to note the spacey nature of the natural Olive wood peg head. As the wife of a luthier I try not to stretch Tim too far, but when it comes to this peg head I didn't want it to be book matched. I searched high and low to discover this piece of scrap from the only electric guitar Tim made for a customer. I think this peg head is perfect for the distant look of space age without screaming a 60's vibe.
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10-21-2018, 07:40 AM
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After the boxes are all nice and shiny its time to glue the bridges on. First we remove the .001" thick Friskit film, exposing the bare wood gluing surface. This is also a way for me to monitor the finial thickness of the finish on the top. The calipers show a measurement of .003" total thickness from which we subtract .001" for the Friskit film thickness and that leaves us with a final finish thickness of .002" on the Skeeter's top.
 We repeat the same process on the Skinny Slope Dred and that reveals the same .002" final finish thickness. This final measurement process also confirms that my spray application techniques are remaining consistent from guitar to guitar.  After the glue dries overnight on the bridges and necks then its time to begin sanding fret boards. I draw registration marks on the surface of the fret board with a white pencil before sanding:  Then begin sanding with a precision ground steel sanding beam:  After a few standing strokes the white marks disappear from the high spots and white marks remain on the low spots revealing where more sanding needs to be done.  When all the beam sanding is done it looks like this but keep in mind that what you don't see is that I also sand the treble side of the FB dead flat but also sand a graduated relief from the center of the FB to the bass side of the fret board. That is where the mojo happens to provide the player the ultimate and lowest playing action possible:  Next up is fret installation using a portable fret pressing process and several brass fret cauls of multiple radii. I used to hammer the frets in but have recently switched over to the portable pressing process which provides far greater control and accuracy [for us]: 
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