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I had my 76th birthday last week, and here is some evidence:
Looks like Haasome is getting my pictures up faster than I am. Gotta love the enthusiasm. Here are a couple I didn't see last time I looked. The box was closed earlier today after I put I the marriage strip and the label and wrote a few words on the neck block. |
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Happy Birthday!
As far as the Artisan Guitar Show goes, I wish you had a left-handed guitar to bring! Whatever you bring will be amazing. |
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I have a guitar on hand that I made 25 years ago, and somehow put the tone bars in backwards, making it functionally a left hand build if I had set it up that way, which I didn’t. It sounds as good as most of my work, and is not noticeably imbalanced. My point is: with a bridge and nut change, most guitars could be transformed into lefties for a few hundred dollars. Not my JB series, of course, and there is the visual issue of the pick guard . . . If there was one. |
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That is beautiful! I know you are on the edge of your seat Haasome! Bruce, wonderfully done as always. I've been going back through your old threads of late, and I never ever get tired of the shots of the bracing before you close the box. They truly are works of art.
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I am halfway through binding this FT-15-WRX. . . actually, I am a step further, but can only show this: |
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P.S. I wouldn't expect you to build a left-handed guitar on spec for the exact reasons you explain. |
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I don't mean to make light of your request, but I have been expanding on what I saw on that OM top ever since, and you can look at my top bracing pictures here in the AGF an elsewhere and see the results. Explaining it in words is a bit like explaining any art; pretty much beside the point.
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Just saw a thread on EVO wire no longer being made, no idea if it is true but since you use it I thought I would share the post in case you need to pick up some more for the next ten years of building. Nice looking cake, the guy behind it is not looking two shabby either.
https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=667048
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Fred |
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What a difference a day makes. Here are a few selected images of Bruce’s creation. Having a front row seat has been a joy.
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Paul's guitar has gone into finish. I sealed the top with varnish so the pore filler would not stain it. The rest has sealer on it to moderate the color from the pore filler yet to come:
I am getting ready to complete the previous build. It has an interesting feature, which is that the back of the neck was stripped and an oil finish applied, much as Violin family instruments are done. |
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Love that treatment on the neck. Really classy!
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And here's that quartersawn tuc back with pore filler and its first coat of varnish:
The medullary display is easily seen as horizontal lines! |