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05-27-2018, 10:21 AM
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The recent article has been picked by the Press Democrat, the bigger local newspaper. Probably won’t make it to the Times, but you never know. 
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05-31-2018, 12:01 PM
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There's been some shuffling and re-prioritization since my last post. And I have hardly done any guitar making for the past three weeks, which is a long time for me.
Tom B'sox visit was shorter than I expected, but we got the work done, and that is a good thing because the guy in line before him is not ready to go, and Tom is, so as soon as I am done with Ben McKee's guitar, that's what is going to happen. Or at least that's how it looks at the moment. My daughter, Laurelyn Maude, is planning on building a guitar here in the shop this summer, and has a fairly fixed window within which that can happen (summer), so that may happen in the middle of Tom's guitar, between the body and the neck, I'd guess. I plan to build a guitar along side her, which will clearly illustrate the moves she will emulate, and then I will try not to mess up my relationship with her while doing a certain amount of "quality control" on her guitar. It is our plan to sell this guitar, a true Sexauer, for enough to pay her relatively modest costs through the building period, that being how I price my own work. You will hear more about that later, as this will be a Very Good Deal for some forward thinking customer, and the earlier someone steps up, the more control they will have over the outcome. 0/00/000/OM is so far undecided, for instance. Inquiring minds will want to know about the bottom line; some where under half my retail in the answer. Tim Porter has received his guitar. He hasn't said too much about it, but did use the word "Fantastic" in a positive way. And he paid me. Here is my start on Ben's neck:   
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#110
06-01-2018, 04:13 PM
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Imagine this!
  Flying alligator? It'll do the job. It is much smaller than it appears on my screen.  For those who may not have been following the story, this Is Ben McKee's new guitar, and his day job is the alt-pop band "Imagine Dragons". See, it all makes sense now! Last edited by Bruce Sexauer; 06-01-2018 at 04:20 PM.
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06-01-2018, 07:29 PM
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I finished sanding the neck, still working on the body. Here's the headstock with sealer:
 Although the body is BRW, the headplates are Cocobolo. My logo is snail, in this case. When I put truss rod access on the headstock, I treat the cover as a graphic element. If the Dragon looks imbalanced toward the top of the field to your eye, as it currently does to mine, this should be resolved when I'm done.
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06-02-2018, 04:24 AM
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06-02-2018, 06:24 AM
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Cute little dragon bruce. I didn’t think to talk to you about visual art the wood type except the Sexauer birds, which i get a kick out of.
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Multiple guitars including a 1979 Fender that needs a neck re-set
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06-02-2018, 10:01 AM
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06-02-2018, 10:06 AM
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06-03-2018, 12:49 PM
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This BRW looks SO delicious to me with it's first coat of varnish now dry and ready to abrade.
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06-05-2018, 05:35 PM
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Today I applied the 4th coat of oil varnish to Ben's JB-15, so we're about half way. I had hoped to capture the color of the mahogany as it appears to me, but I don't see in in the photos. What a great color it is in reality. The BRW is easy, by comparison.
   
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