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Author:  cwood8656 [ Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:26 pm ]
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Hey all,

I've finished my third guitar. Still sorting out the setup, (I'm getting good at making nuts and saddles), but it's coming along well. Specs are as follows:

OOO sized
Black walnut back and sides, curly maple binding
Black/white fibre purfling
Englemann spruce tops
Sitka scalloped braces in X configuration, rosewood bridge plate
24.9" 5 pices bolt on neck from Hanelei Moon
Black pearl postion markers on the fingerboard
Black chrome Gotoh 510 tuning machines
Beautiful finish with amber burst by Joe White

Here are a few pics, we had to color correct the burst because the camera wants it to be red, but it's at least close.

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Author:  Fred Tellier [ Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:36 pm ]
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It looks real good, nice work and as always a great finish by Joe. How does she sound?

Fred
Author:  cwood8656 [ Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:39 pm ]
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Fred, so far it sounds terrific. It's been strung for about 3 days now, loads of sustain and very 'chimey'. It'll be interesting to see what happens to it as it opens up.

Chris.
Author:  Darryl Young [ Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:42 pm ]
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Very nice Chris!!! Hope she sounds as good as she looks. Beautiful flame maple and the neck maple is very similar to the body maple.......did you send the maple to Hannalei to make the neck?
Author:  cwood8656 [ Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:50 pm ]
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Darryl, I just bought curly maple binding from LMI for the body and the sides of the fingerboard. The maple in the neck lamination was picked by Chris at Hanelei Moon. The heel cap and the end graft are made out of yet another curly maple from LMI. Lucky for me, they all match pretty well under finish.

Chris.
Author:  Randolph [ Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:07 pm ]
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Chris, this is a beautiful guitar. I love maple against the walnut, especially on the neck. I love the side markers on the fretboard. I am particularly interested in the walnut Englemann sound. I want to do one myself. Great job. Congrats......... [clap] [clap] [clap]
Author:  Blain [ Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:15 pm ]
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That is one great looking guitar. Very nice!!!
That Joe does a great job on the finish too. One of these days I need to have him do one for me.
Author:  cwood8656 [ Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:43 am ]
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Thanks guys,

I highly recommend working with walnut. It's a dream. The englemann looks and sounds terrific, but beware, it's very, very soft and easy to damage during the build process.

Chris.
Author:  jackwilliams [ Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:20 am ]
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Fine looking guitar ; I like the sunburst
regards,
jack
Author:  ChuckB [ Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:00 am ]
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I like the burst too,, great job!

Chuck
Author:  SteveCourtright [ Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:21 am ]
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Nice job, Chris. I like all of your choices and the headstock shape is very cool.
Author:  WaddyThomson [ Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:45 am ]
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Very nice guitar! Great job on materials selection.
Author:  Michael Lloyd [ Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:22 pm ]
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Gotta love the maple binding on this one and everything else about this instrument! Wow!
Author:  Bill Hodge [ Thu Apr 15, 2010 1:16 pm ]
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Nice clean work Chris!
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