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I build mostly electric guitars and have built over 250 electrics. I have built about 7 acoustics mostly J200 style guitars with Bigsby style necks. I see a lot of OM style guitars on here that are very nice. What do you guys build?

The dreaded, ugly, hated, and feared dreadnought. Sorry, guys, its true.

Even though my avatar is an OM....

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Wes McMillian
Santo, TX
http://www.wesmcmillian.com

Dreadnought

I'm in a bluegrass club. Bluegrass and dreadnought are like synonyms.

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Rick Hubka
Chemainus BC Canada

Deep bodied OM's, OOO, and baritones.
I have not had one request for a dread.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Dreads, dreads, dreads. My customers are mainly bluegrass players. ~5 dreads for every other style.

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I didn't mean to say it, but I meant what I said.
http://www.brackettinstruments.com/

Lots of Larsons!
Really don't have any interest in the dreaded dread.

I'd have to build the same kind of guitar more than once to really answer that question!

The only way that I could answer that would be to say Torres style classical.

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Expectation is the source of all misery; comparison the thief of joy.
http://redrivercanoe.ca/

I lead a sheltered life........what's a Larson??

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I didn't mean to say it, but I meant what I said.
http://www.brackettinstruments.com/

All of them!

At any given time, I seem to have a couple electrics, a couple dreds, a couple OMs, and most recently, a classical sitting in various stages of construction.

I seem to start a lot more than I finish.

Woody, the Larson bros started building guitars and mandolins before the turn of the century (that other one). Among the brands they built under were Stahl, Maurer, Prairie State, Stetson, Euphonon, Champion, Dyer, etc. Innovations included laminated bracing, heavily arched tops and backs (pulled down under tension), "Tone Tube" (Prairie State). They are highly regarded for their tone...fingerpickers love them.
Here's a 15" Stahl...


Here's a 12 string I built using a modified Stahl 15" body form...

Nice 12 string

Right now a Sloped Shoulder Dred Baby in the vain of the Old Work Horse, The Great Gibson J-45. I want do a L-OO and a Torres clasical too and a .....

Is there a geographical clustering of Dread builders, or is it my imagination?

I'll be starting a multiscale 8-string solidbody next week.

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The member formerly known as erikbojerik....

Kharkiv (Харків) of course! Kyiv style is just so 1970's...

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http://banduramaker.blogspot.com

Ya know, I don't remember putting the raspberry twins on my post...
Can't figure out how to edit it either.

Thanks for the kind words, guys!

Mostly Zion's (one of my designs) and SJ's some OM's. Never had a request for a Dread either...

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
http://www.cornerstoneukes.com

First was a variant of a Martin OM that started out life as a kit and grew legs...

The second is a concert jumbo ala Rick Davis/Running Dog. With a wedge, and cutaway.

The next 3 will all be dreadnoughts. I'm a dreadnought kind of guy, although I am not strictly a bluegrass player. These will be attempts to improve on my HD-28 and Collings D2-H. If I am successful, I will probably sell those beloved instruments (reluctantly) and try something new.. a parlor, and perhaps a 12 string of some kind.

I have plans for all 3 of the OLF guitars, and will probably try building one of each of those just for fun at some point.

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Jim Hansen

Really nice looking 12 string.
Chuck

I haven't built anything yet. I am just starting to build my jigs and bending machine. I have plans for the mini jumbo, O00 and an L-00. I will most likely start with the 000 as a 14 fret.
Chuck

I mostly build Karols (Signature, Solo, OM) ..... no dreads.

That is a very nice looking 12 ... but slot head string changes are an exercise in futility IMO ...not my cup of tea .... come to think of it, I dont like tea all that much either !!!!

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

Being new I didn't know there were plans for OLF guitars. Would someone please tell me what the plans are and where I can find them? It would be good to know what the cost is also.

Thanks, this forum has been really helpful to me and I appreciate everyone that has responded to my level 101 questions.
Chuck

Plans for the OLF guitars are available from Stew Mac

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Books,_plans/Plans.html


Great looking guitars Haans

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I didn't mean to say it, but I meant what I said.
http://www.brackettinstruments.com/

I have to admit, I like OMs. Deep, standard, venetian, florentine...