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Cool story and awesome tribute to your friend.
The mahogany looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing your story and your build--I'll be following along...
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Congrats Rick, I know you waited a long time for this with a wedding to handle in between. I am glad the guitar has made it to the top of the to do list.
As a pretty sappy guy myself, the story of your friend and the mahogany was worth the price of admission. I will be following along for sure. All the best.
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Cool story, cool wood, and a fun thread to follow. Enjoy the ride!!! Paul
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I'm a sucker for a good story and this is definitely a good one. Best wishes for the build, I hope its more than you hope for
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Woohoo!
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Paul - that is a great idea!
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Thicknessing continues
Dale sent me some more pictures of the mahogany being thicknessed and joined. It’s always fun to see the big machines do in moments what would take hours in a small shop. When I first met Dale, he was working out of a 20x20 garage and had everything stored neatly in every nook or crevice that could be found. What a change!
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Congratulations! I love my FB Roy Smeck. Dale is right up there with the best luthiers in the world
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Nice story to go along with this guitar build. Congratulations on coming into this set of wood, I would imagine there are not to many solid mahogany table tops out there to find, most being veneer. I love the dark color of this set. I can't wait for the final photos of this one.
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Getting Bent
I’m always amazed at how the bending process works. The first time I saw a bending machine, it was a computer controlled, thermal blanket, thermal sensored piece of custom machinery at the Guild guitar shop in New Hartford, Ct. and yet, luthiers have been bending wood over hot pipes, and in boiling water\steam for centuries.
C61D3A33-73B8-4227-BF1B-6A84D354329D.jpg From Dale - "Sometimes with salvage wood, it’ll split when bending, or other nasty surprises will pop up. This went beautifully." 6B425C49-9708-453A-9DEA-838583F8513D.jpg My comment - "phewwww!!!" This is getting very exciting. I almost want to take a trip up to Burlington and just sit and watch everything, even the glue drying!
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Rosette and Soundhole Time
Cutting the groove -interesting jig
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Great idea and great project! Dale makes amazing guitars. Based on JT’s 43! Make sure he accounts for the tone-sapping effects of John Thomas’s wet blanket personality when he voices it. It should sound a lot better that way. I had him do that with my JT 43 replica and it turned out great.
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As Juston has correctly (!) pointed out, the results are excellent.
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