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Getting closer and closer all the time. Many thanks to Brad Nickerson for being a very patient and wise teacher.


three piece walnut & maple back, bearclaw spruce top


awwww yeah


bending some walnut


back all roughed out


back of the bocote pickguard


piece of bocote that i'm using for the fingerboard, pickguard, truss rod cover, and pickup mounting rings


gluing in the kerfing


top with soundholes and pickup holes routed out


the hard part of making the mounting rings... getting the pickups to fit. these aren't the pups i'm going to use, i'm waiting on some custom fralins


gluing the box together


two piece walnut neck, ready for gluing

Looks like what will be a very very cool 1st guitar. Thanks for the pics!

A friend of mine who makes wire wrap jewelry (see below) will be doing a tailpiece for my guitar. He'll be using a standard thin-body trapeze tailpiece from stew mac and working his magic with it.

Also this past thursday I did my first inlay, a 50 crown coin from the Czech Republic, where I lived for a year.

Cool guitar. I like your aesthetic sensibilities.

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George :-)

Routed the mortise and tenon joint for the neck today, as well as scraped/sanded the flamed maple binding flush with the top/sides.

Looking good! That is going to be an awesome guitar!

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Tracy
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Flamed Maple binding


Pore filler coat of epoxy


Pore filler coat of epoxy


Abalone inlays to cover up dings in the top


Side markers


bridge in the rough


bridge in the rough


bocote fretboard before


after


my cigano d-hole, which served as inspiration for my new guitar.


new bridge for the cigano d-hole. i really didn't like the sound of the stock bridge, so i made a new one out of macasser ebony. (stock front, new one back)

Oh yeah, I also strung it up for a test run before starting the finishing process. Too much fun.

Nuages - Django Reinhardt. The first thing I played on my new guitar


Sweet Georgia Brown > Limehouse Blues, w/ Django's 1937 solo from SGB.


So What - Miles Davis


Pardon all the mistakes, I was shaking with excitement.

Congratulations....looks like you're going to be a natural at building. I'm really impressed. Beth

Thanks a lot, Beth. I've been having the time of my life with this build. Brad Nickerson is an exceptional teacher, and this guitar wouldn't be $&#@ without his guidance. I see myself doing this for a very long time.

Nice job!
Great playing too!

U R too cool, Thomas!!

Nice work Thomas! Great playing too! Congrats!
Post some more vids after the finish is applied? Be cool to hear how the sound changes.

-Jake.