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Author:  Matt Shumway [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:14 pm ]
Post subject:  #2 (almost) done, a few pics
Thought I would post a few pictures of the guitar which you all were helping me diagnose the fret problems. I am going to be getting some free help/advice from Stephen Boone this weekend, and hopefully after that I will be totally done.

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Author:  Dave Livermore [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:22 pm ]
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Looks great Matt. Especially the rosette.
How did you make that?

Dave
Author:  Matt Shumway [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:35 pm ]
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Dave Livermore wrote:
Looks great Matt. Especially the rosette.
How did you make that?

Dave


thank you

The entire build thread is over at luthiercom.org here:
http://www.luthiercom.org/phpBB3/viewto ... &sk=t&sd=a

But basically I just sawed off a bunch of wedge shaped pieces from some cocobolo (the orange and white) and some rosewood (the brown), fit them all together with some purfling inbetween on some double stick tape. Then I slathered it with some thinned fish glue and once dry, routed out the middle for a snakewood circle I got from LMI. Then I routed the outside and plopped the whole thing into my channel I routed on the top.
Author:  Robbie_McD [ Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:03 pm ]
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Looks sweet!
Great job of the slotted headstock - deceptively difficult to get just right....

Rob
Author:  Colin North [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:18 am ]
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Hi Matt, thanks for posting, the guitar looks fine, and I'm sure you enjoyed the process, but just one critique - the saddle looks to be compensated the "wrong" way for a RH guitar, more compensation on the higher strings than the bass ones,
Maybe it's just the photo?
Author:  WaddyThomson [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:28 am ]
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Looks really nice, Matt! Stephen will get you over the hump, I bet.
Author:  senunkan [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:29 am ]
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Nice work Matt. [:Y:]
I like the rosette. It sort of reminds me of a railway track :lol:
Author:  Alexandru Marian [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:35 am ]
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I really like the slim and upside-down back wedge! But you can go much lighter on the internal patch next time.
Author:  Matt Shumway [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:33 pm ]
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Colin North wrote:
Hi Matt, thanks for posting, the guitar looks fine, and I'm sure you enjoyed the process, but just one critique - the saddle looks to be compensated the "wrong" way for a RH guitar, more compensation on the higher strings than the bass ones,
Maybe it's just the photo?



Hah I didn't notice that in the photo but yeah, that's just the photo. There is no compensation at all actually in the saddle.

Alexandru Marian wrote:
I really like the slim and upside-down back wedge! But you can go much lighter on the internal patch next time.


You aren't supposed to look in there!!! I forgot to add that stipulation. laughing6-hehe
(its ugly, I need to come up with a label of my own to start adding, and for this guitar, it would improve the looks by hiding the ugliness inside hehe)
Author:  jfmckenna [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:49 am ]
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Beautiful I really like the Rosette as well.
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