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08-09-2024, 04:54 PM
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Here's what this Brazilian Rosewood looks like when the light is right:
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08-10-2024, 05:01 AM
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Not sure if I missed something in the earlier comments, but am I the only one questioning why this is called Pointless, yet it has a Florentine Cutaway.....or is that the point???!!
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08-10-2024, 09:58 AM
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08-10-2024, 03:11 PM
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Before I scuff-sanded coat #3 and sprayed on coat #4, I put "Pointless" on the porch in the sun and took a couple of pics:
 
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08-11-2024, 08:55 AM
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Wow, Bruce. Stellar!
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08-11-2024, 10:14 AM
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08-11-2024, 07:32 PM
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The back and sides on this one are truly amazing material - absolutely premium, master grade, quarter sawn, Imperial coloring - and it reallylooks amazing in person as the finish is going on. I have no doubt it will sound equally amazing, but it’ll be another month+ before I’ll get a chance to play it -
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08-15-2024, 08:48 PM
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Neck block angle
Bruce,if I could trouble you for some clarification on your process. I have been scouring your build threads and am trying to employ your in the air method on guitar #4… previous builds are all in a mold.
Do you set some sort of angled geometry on the neck block and heel block or do you glue them down 90 degrees to the top? Also, do you make them over finished depth and then sand the back radius into them before closing the box so that the whole of the bocks is glued to the back, or do you cut them 90 degrees and they are only glued to the back right long the edge of the back? Thanks in advance! I enjoy following your work. |
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08-16-2024, 10:23 AM
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I believe that the degree of perfection in the joinery of a guitar has a direct relationship with the instrument’s tone. The watchword is “integrity”, the same as with the quality of the materials used, and finally, the technique of the player. So of course the blocks are not hanging in space, but are fit to back as accurately as possible, having been cut slightly long before being glued to the top.
While I do currently place the end blocks perpendicular to the centerline and at 90 degrees to the top surface, this is because that makes it easier the get the neck geometry right, which is important. Also, it looks better, to me. Last edited by Bruce Sexauer; 08-21-2024 at 02:44 PM. |
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08-16-2024, 01:26 PM
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I got a haircut!
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08-23-2024, 11:09 AM
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I posted this in the build/repair area - but thought it might be of interest to people who appreciate the one-at-a-time custom building that Bruce does so exceptionally well - this is a demo he did for the Northern Cal Asso of Luthiers meeting at his shop back in 2017, showing how easily he can make adjustments in scale length, as well as how easily he can adjust for different scale lengths on multiscale instruments -
It’ll only waste a few minutes of your time - https://youtu.be/vedhlDZaK2I
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08-26-2024, 07:50 PM
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I am chomping at the bit to play the new guitar, so I am failing to wait the typical 4 week curing period.
   
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09-01-2024, 02:15 PM
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A decade owning and playing a Sexauer
We tend to celebrate new guitar day’s here on AGF and then they are rarely seen again. Breaking tradition in a world of buy and sell collectors of guitars, I thought celebrating the 10th anniversary of its making was in order. Some of us buy guitars to play them and we keep them. This guitar began to be built by luthier Bruce Sexauer back in August 2014, now over a decade ago. I took possession of it November 2014.
 This was the very first L00 that Bruce had built and he visited Eric Schoenberg’s shop to measure the namesake. I believe he has built about a dozen L00s since then. It was of course not a replica of the body namesake beyond the shape, but the guitar was 100% Bruce tonally and ergonomically. - The guitar has 13-frets to the body, - A 5/16” Manzer Wedge for comfort, - A 1/4” multi-scale of 25” to 25-1/4” - A 1-3/4” nut width and 2-5/16” string spacing. - A sound port - A/AA grade European Spruce top that had some compression wood - Rare & beautiful two piece, quarter sawn set of Pernambuco  This is truly a superb guitar. It was my first commission with Bruce (I now own 5) and the guitar totally disappears when you play it, allowing you to focus on the tune under hand. I have placed it in the hands of other experienced guitarists and luthiers at various guitar shows across the years and its timbre and liveliness universally floors players (it’s that good). Here is poor iPhone video at a loud party @ WILS in 2023 where NY guitarist Will Galison was taking it for a spin. Back to Bruce’s regular programing.
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