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That's really beautiful John!

Do you mind sharing what make of tuning machines you used? I don't recognize them.

Leo

Thanks!

They are Gilbert tuning machines. I bought this set a bunch of years ago when I had him build an 8 course set for me.

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Guess this is more of what is happening to my shop than what's happening in my shop, but since I moved from Tennessee to the mountains of North Carolina, the size of my shop was cut in less than one half. We moved from a 3500 square foot house with a pretty good sized shop to a 950 square foot house with a very small shop space. Downsizing was a great thing, and even in the downsized shop, it became the most efficient shop space I've ever had. But it is cramped.

My wife's sewing room was way too small, so we decided to double its size. The bonus was underneath her sewing room is my shop! The addition adds about 1/3 to the size of my shop. Mainly gives me some elbow room along with space for a part time spray booth, a luxury I've never had before. Woo Hoo!

I think I'm finished with my fretting hammers.



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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.

Finished my first lattice braced guitar, I used an all wood lattice without plywood or carbon fiber in the style of my mentor Stephen Hill who has become quite well known for this model of guitar over the last 25 year. Cedar top, Honduran rosewood back/sides/bridge/fretboard/head veneer (all flitch matched), book matched Spanish cedar neck with center laminations of Brazilian Rosewood and satinwood with a matte oil varnish inspired by the English luthier Kevin Aram. Took some shots at the local brewery because the lighting was great and the beer excellent too.

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Are you using IMGUR?

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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.

Huh that's strange, I've always used Imgur in the past and can't recall this being a problem before

shows up fine for me.
Very nice Brian.

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Wake up and smell the rosewood!

Very nice guitar Brian.


The background is a little fuzzy, but do have nine beers on tap at your home?

Checked and apparently regulators plans to "fine Imgur after probing its approach to age checks and use of children's personal data"
Must be easier to just not give UK access....

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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.

Here ya go Colin, and anyone else who perhaps cannot see the images.

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Wake up and smell the rosewood!

There's actually 12 taps in that photo, 3 are smaller handles with different spouts (nitro beers). Not my house (would be nice though) but rather the local brewery tasting room. My friend takes their promotional photos so we killed two birds with one stone by photographing the guitar at the bar. Had some beers too.

Gregor, thanks for that, I can see I was missing out.
Brian, what a beautiful build. Lattice top, Cedar, Honduran RW everywhere, that must absolutely sing!

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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.

A guitar I made about 12 yrs ago. I applied the Royal Lac incorrectly and it crazed. I'm finally striping it to refinish. I'm not in a hurry so I'm just using a scraper - I prefer that to a sander till I get down to bare wood so I don't thin out the wood too much. This one will get a new top too, I don't like how the top is voiced and I think the rosette is ugly

Edit: I forgot to note that I discussed this with Vijay when this occurred and he said I would need to strip it mechanically so that means scraper or sanding. That's also why it sat in the shop so long.

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