Just finished - Baritone - Figure redwood double top. (pics)

Steve Saville · **Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:03 pm

peterm wrote:

......I'll try! When is it?

August 1 at the Ramsey Compound. Have you been there?
Look in the Gatherings and Get-Together section.
Let me know what time you'll be there so I can schedule accordingly.

Steve Saville · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:54 pm

One more thing. For the bindings, instead of making butt joints, I made scarf joints about an inch off center. The grain on the koa showed about a 25 degree angle, so I sanded one side to match that angle and just let the other side rest against it during glue up. I also moved the BW purfling off center.
It worked. I can't find the joints.
Who else has done that?

Chris Paulick · **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:33 pm

Todd Lunneborg will will make a long taper maybe an inch on one binding and glue the other binding on top of the taper so that the square binding hangs out and comes back with a router flush trim bit and routes it flush. He calls it an invisible seam.
http://www.luthiercom.org/phpBB3/viewto ... a&start=25

Steve Saville · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:09 pm

Chris - Thanks.
That's pretty much what I did - except I just chiseled and sanded it instead of using the router. I liked it so well that I'll probably do it on all my builds.

Paul Micheletti · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:34 pm

That is an awesome and inspirational guitar. I just finished my #1 (classical) and I'm looking for design ideas for #2 (my first Steel String). The OLF SJ is now at the top of the list after looking at this beauty. Mine won't look as awesome as yours, but I gotta learn to crawl before I can run!

Bill Hodge · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:26 pm

Haven't been able to spend much time on line and just ran across this. It's an absolute beauty Steve, thanks for posting it.

rich altieri · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:44 pm

Awesome

Steve Saville · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:09 pm

This one goes to the owner tomorrow. I'm going to miss her.
Kind of scary - it will be at a guitar players gathering with out 30 people present when I hand it over. I hope he likes it.
Well - maybe I hope he doesn't and I get to keep it.

Thank you for all the kind comments.

Steve Saville · **Posted:** Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:36 pm

He liked it!
I just bought a Canon SX110. It has video capability. I just did a 10 second test to see how it worked. Except for the background noise, I think it worked well. I be doing more video clips for sure.

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