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Looking at your pictures confirmed my suspicion. I am way too far to be on the level that you guys have right now. Hopefully I'll get to the point wherein I can post things like these.

Thanks Josh, I have so many questions about tornavoz making, installation, how to glue the bridge, etc. I hope you don't regret your offer haha.



I buy it from Rivolta in Italy, this is the second guitar (both FE-13 shaped) I've made with euro Birdseye maple (I think it grew in the Balkans but don't quote me) and I've found it to be a bit less dense and much easier to work with than the North American Birdseye hard maple I've used. I think the traits are the same as any other Euro vs North American maple even though it's flat sawn, probably near identical to NA soft maple in most properties. The main advantage for me is the color, it's much more of a golden cream hue rather than either stark white or grey like much of the North American varieties are

Cleaned up my work bench so I could get a good picture.

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Student's J45 from Gore plans.
Bracings carved, tapered 6.3m x 13mm on soundboard, 20mm x 10mm back, final cleaning to finish after holidays.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.