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Hello everyone!

First time I post here, but I've lurked here a lot in the past few months...
Wanted to drop by to show off my last project. I present this guitar with a huge amount of humility, just figured it might tickle your curiosity.


The body is from an old Harmony Bobcat from 1964, poplar. I chambered it quite a lot.
The neck and top are from a 4/4 plank of Khaya Mahogany I bought and resawed some.
The fretboard is from LMI, 20 inch radius, 650 mm scale length, gold evo fretwire.
The bridge is rosewood.
Pick up system is the DTAR Multisource, and it sounds pretty good. It's their wavelength UST with a condenser mic and 18V preamp.
Tuners are Gotoh, side dots are gold MOP.
The finish is brushed on golden shellac. I added black pigment to the mix for the back and sides.

The whole build thread can be found at:
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/sho ... ?t=2643586

Here are some pics of the finished thing:








Overall, I like it a lot!
And thanks again for the incredible amount of knowledge you guys are willing to share.

beautifull looking guitar , i would love to hear a clip of it played

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Its very stylish and i really like it.
Body fret at #16 = truss rod for me.
I too would love to hear it!

Thanks for the comments, it's really appreciated coming from you guys.

The truss rod seemed necessary due to the thin profile I gave to the neck, that with a smaller nut width (about 46mm) than the traditionnal 2" for the classical guitar. The neck/body joint location was also a concern.
Furthermore, I thought that if I grew tired of the nylon string sound, nothing stops me from going steel string...

The guitar is obviously not really loud. The multi-source system, with the internal mic, attracted me as a way of having a greater tonal control, and I like the fact that it just picks up the surronding noises and such. It's a great tool to make ambient stuff, and besides, it does sound really really good as a guitar.

I built this guitar for live purposes, with my band, and I think it'll do just great.

I'll set up something to have it recorded in the near future.

Thanks again!

Simply beautiful. And unusual. Would love to hear it.

very very nice!
use that peghead as a default,
very nice!

Very Cool! Love the peghead. Nice finish too.
I'm impressed! Bet it's fun to play.

Great looking work guitar. Good job.

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(Godin) La Patrie uses truss rods on all of their guitars (all are classical). I own one and the appeal for me is that the neck can be adjusted if need be as opposed to a neck reset. I realize the value of tradition, but if a truss rod improves the integrity of the instrument, why not?

Had to wait till I came home to see the pictures. Glad I came back to the thread. Very nice. I really like the headstock.

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Nice and clean; both from a design as well as a workmanship perspective.
For the next one you might want to refine the peghead layout so that the strings have clear travel from the nut to the tuners.

Congrats!

Yep, PG and here are the two places where I gathered most of the knowledge I needed for this.
Thanks! This is the body as I got it.


After stripping and the first round of routing the chambers. It got a little more refined along the way.




I'll make sure to post a clip, I've had a lot of requests so I'll do it as soon as I get my recording stuff back (currently at our practice room)
FWIW, I really like the sounds I can get from this thing! Do it!



Thanks! Good eye on the string travel, I thought it would be enough, and it almost was, but that truss rod cover came in the way...

And thanks everyone, I wasn't expecting such a welcome, and I appreciate it.

Hey!

I finally recorded a short video of the thing.
Sorry for the bad quality, could not plug it into an amp to record due to the proximity of the neighbors...

So it's all via my Vox Tonelab SE, then directly on the soundcard of my laptop.
The strings are Savarez high tension.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlnT_vpfR64

Hope you guys enjoy!

Very nice sound and tone you are getting - nice work !

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Hey, nice one, looks and sounds!
So, has the building bug bit you?

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