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Routed out for EIR & Mahogany wood rosette and installed so far today.

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Bobby Masten

Bobby : That is one piece of wild top wood....!! Where did you manage to find that..???
Tom

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A person who has never made a mistake has never made anything!!!

I'm entering the last stretch to finish the Oregon Myrtle/Sitka spruce 000 I've been working on the last couple of weeks. Scraping back binding and purfling today. Sorry for the crappy pics, seems like my old Olympus is worse every day.

Chris.

Tom,
This is one of 2 heavy bear claw tops I got several months ago from Brent at Alaska Specialty Woods. Great guy, quick shipments and obviously has some nice figure in his master tops!

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Bobby Masten

Making a rockabilly guitar!

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

I buffed this body.


And I installed the binding on this one.

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

Building 4 necks...

I'm boring, I'm just refretting existing guitars. No pictures.

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Old growth, shmold growth!

I made three bridges, but I haven't settled on a design yet. I still have a bunch of buffing to do on the finish.

I'm busy moving my whole shop to an industrial unit the other side of town. Got my two eldest boys and some friends coming over tomorrow to help me move the real heavy items (cyclone dust collector, Laguna bandsaw, Jet table saw, etc). I rented a Genie lift for the weekend - it makes lifting the stuff on and off the back of my truck real easy!! It's going to be a couple of weeks till the new shop is up and running again, but all the extra space is going to be well worth the down time. Pics tomorrow if I remember.....

Cheers,
Dave F.

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Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

[quote="Filippo Morelli"]Well I'm rounding the bend on two electric builds, before I tackle the next classical which is on the drawing board. This week I build a jig loosely based on David Myka's design which I'll use for routing neck pockets and pickup pockets. It's made from 3/4" birch ply and scraps of Black Limba, Padauk, Curly Maple and White Oak.

Filippo,
When you run out of jigs to build, just send all your future "scrap" to Columbia SC Nice Jig!

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Bobby Masten

Filippo, nice jig. Do you still use a template with it? Or is the whole purpose to easily set the neck angle?
Please be sure to post pics of it in action!

I finally got around to finishing my radius dish jig. Works pretty nicely, except its a pain spinning the dish around.

Filippo, nice job on that jig.

Edward, I've made a similar jig and found you can have the router spin your dish blank. As you start to slide your router carrier into the dish give the dish a counter clockwise spin. This will get the router into a climb cut and the dish will keep spinning. Sa you get closer to the centre you will have to adjust your feed rate.

I got this Hitachi B600 resaw moved into the back of my shop this weekend. Picked it up off a Kijiji.ca add laste weekend for $200. All it needs are the guide blocks replace and a single phase motor to replace the three phase. If anyone has a manual for this saw in .pdf I'd appreciate hearing from you.

Paul

Pulled " the blond" out of the mold,
roughed out a bridge.
can't glue today, 90 percent humidity.
Guess i'll watch u-tube videos.

Wow, nice saw is right.



I did that on my first dish, but was not satisfied with the surface it left, lots of ridges and needed sanding.
If you advance the router very slowly the surface left is much smoother, but its a lot of spinning.

Edward, this might be of interest.
I wanted a way to ensure good flatness on the back of glued archtop plates before carving. I've always had a small "buffer" in my tablesaw bench (pulls out like a drawer), & decided to use that to drive a sanding disc. (Not sure where I originally saw the concept....maybe Doolin). Anyway, with the motor in the bench legvise, just rotate the plate into the drive pulley & Robert's your father's brother!




Another recent project that might give somebody ideas.... my "no deck" gobar deck. I wanted to get my clamping speeds up for HHG plate glueing, but no room for a dedicated gobar deck. I use a leg vise held holding jig quite a bit (fully height & rotation adjustable), so I mounted a plywood plate to the ceiling directly above it. I adjust it upward for a 41" gap & use some of the endless trim moulding I've accumulated over the years, trimmed to 42" & tuned to 8lb. downforce for that gap & voila!

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Dave
Milton, ON

Managed to build yet another jig - the binding jig for my Rigid laminate trimmer - will probably use it twice and build the universal binding jig anyway.....
Got the bindings installed and sanded out my current build - an OM cutaway using Lutz, EIR and bloodwood/padauck trim.
Starting on the neck:

Still on #1, but I'm making actual progress.

I closed the body...


DSC02184 by pbr4life2002, on Flickr


DSC02180 by pbr4life2002, on Flickr

and started on this carriage. i'll have to add one more "leg" before i use this for routing the binding channel. i wish i had "scraps" like Filippo- but it's pine and mdf for my jig building.


DSC02159 by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/44579313@N04/]pbr4life2002[/ url], on Flickr

You can see the OLF SJ plans on the wall in the background. I opted for the X braced back and shifted the top braces forward.

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rono

Also buffed out a body. This one is an EIR OM with lacewood bindings and lutz top:

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Ken, the Lacewood is a handsome compliment to the rosewood.
Good call.

Here's one from our shop that is a bit different (for us anyway).
Ziricote back/sides, Sinker top, A. Blackwood bindings, Ziricote rosette bordered w/ green ab:





Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

Working on the shop. I moved to my new house about a year ago and it had a 22'x36' shop building on site. It was a disaster to start with and has been a long process due to the same issues that stall most projects; money and time.

So it's getting closer as you can see. The first picture in the series is actually after a lot of the demolition of the old innards had already taken place. New electrical, with 2 subpanels, R19 walls, R38 ceiling, drywall and soon to have 15 4 foot T8 light fixtures means it's getting close to actually doing some work IN the shop, instead of ON the shop.

Darrin

Into the final stretch
Got my shellac all prepared, and doing final sanding on everything. Hard work! Still a couple spots of scratch marks I need to hit, like on the volute...

I think I'll give it a wipe-down with water to raise the grain, one more pass of 220, then 320, and then shellac and pumice for final smoothing and filling before French polishing. Debating whether to include a tiny bit of hide glue in that water wipe-down as a sealer. Eugene Clark does it, and it does seem like it would clog the pores to keep out oil better than straight shellac since it wouldn't dissolve at all on future passes. I'm a little worried about it being sticky anywhere the finish wears through over time though. Probably not a problem, but maybe I'll skip it on this guitar anyway, just to see what the oil looks like. Then seal the next one and compare.

I'm partial to Lacewood too, and have used it with EIR and with Cocobolo. The only thing I don't like is bending it. I have thrown away as much as I've successfully bent.

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Waddy

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Worked on my niece's parlor. Pau Ferro + Lutz Spruce. Waiting around for some mo' $$$ to buy a bending blanket so I can finish these two other SJs

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-Marcus
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#6 is taking shape rapidly. Have the sides bent, and this weekend I installed the rosette and glued the braces on.

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Waddy

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