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Author:  Colin S [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:11 am ]
Post subject:  Window Frame Mahogany 00-13
Well, this one's finished and ready and ready to go to its new owner.

The wood to make this guitar came from my neighbour's old window frames, and that's who this guitar is going to.

The mahogany top is superb wood, perfectly on quarter, and came from the window sills, and was wide enough for a two piece top (with a few more sets left over), the neck sides and three piece back, from the widow uprights.

So, the components were:

Back Sides and Top and Neck, mahogany.
Fingerboard, bridge and binding, Madagascan rosewood.
Headplate, ebony.
Purflings, rosette etc Black/white/black and rope.

I make my small bodied steel strings using the same plantilla as my classicals, the Torres 1864 FE19, who am I to argue with the master.

Tonewise it's what you'd expect from mahogany, real growl, but full and even across the board, this is the perfect little blues guitar, and will get better and better over the next months and years.

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Author:  Darryl Young [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:23 am ]
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The mahogany is beautiful! I like your brace design.......how does it sound?
Author:  jonsse [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:57 am ]
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Really nice Colin. I love recyling materials, the amount of good moggy being thrown away in the UK is unreal. UPVC.... gaah
Author:  Link Van Cleave [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:58 am ]
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Very nice !! [:Y:]

L.
Author:  Chris Pile [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:12 pm ]
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Boy! I like that one A LOT!
Author:  NWflyonly [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:21 pm ]
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Colin awesome git what was the thickness of the top, back and sides? I'd like to build a small body all mahogany git for my next project! bliss
Author:  Dave Rickard [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:29 pm ]
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Very nice.
I'm surprised you haven’t signed, or at least put “your mark” on it
Author:  Colin S [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Window Frame Mahogany 00-13
NWflyonly wrote:
Colin awesome git what was the thickness of the top, back and sides? I'd like to build a small body all mahogany git for my next project! bliss


Before final sanding the various thicknesses were:

Sides, 0.085"
Back, 0.095"
Top, 0.100"

Top thickness as always is down to the individual piece of wood.

Colin
Author:  Colin S [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Window Frame Mahogany 00-13
Dave Rickard wrote:
Very nice.
I'm surprised you haven’t signed, or at least put “your mark” on it


I don't particularly like headstock inlays, I guess it's my European classical guitar influence, nor am I keen on labels directly under the soundhole. But all of my guitars have small 1" x 2" violin style labels up against the bass side lining.

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Author:  Steve Kinnaird [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Window Frame Mahogany 00-13
Let me beat Don to it: *dang*.
Really sweet Colin... you did it again.
When we tear out windows here, all we get is rotten yellow pine.
You are so lucky.

Steve
Author:  Quine [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:22 pm ]
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Very nice. I'm doing an all-mahogany OM size right now. I hope it matches your sound description
Author:  Colin S [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Window Frame Mahogany 00-13
Steve Kinnaird wrote:
Let me beat Don to it: *dang*.
Really sweet Colin... you did it again.
When we tear out windows here, all we get is rotten yellow pine.
You are so lucky.

Steve


Thanks Steve, yours (or Don's) "dang" is the highest praise I can be given!

Before uPVC windows became popular, it was quite common here to have aluminium window frames set in hardwood surrounds. It's sometimes hard to spot what wood it is, as with these frames they are often covered in nasty brown varnish

Colin
Author:  Darryl Young [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:42 pm ]
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Quine wrote:
Very nice. I'm doing an all-mahogany OM size right now. I hope it matches your sound description


Now how did I miss the tone description??? Just went back and found it......
Author:  jfmckenna [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Window Frame Mahogany 00-13
That's awesome! I hope your neighbor doesn't freeze this winter without his windows though :D
Author:  Joe Sallis [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:40 pm ]
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It's a beautiful guitar, Colin.
Did you brace the back like that because it's a 3 piece or is that your normal way? I've never seen that before and I really like it.
Whereabouts in England do you live?
Do you have a website?
Author:  Clinchriver [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:36 pm ]
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Nice little guitar.
Author:  CharlieT [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:44 pm ]
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Beautiful guitar, Colin! I love wood with a story behind it.
Author:  Don Williams [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:29 pm ]
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<sigh> Steve beat me to it...

Gorgeous instrument, and I also share the view that we are sorely challenged here for old window material being that nice...
Author:  Shaw [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:46 am ]
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Gee most of my neighbors windows are vinyl....Mike
Author:  Colin S [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:54 am ]
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Joe Sallis wrote:
It's a beautiful guitar, Colin.
Did you brace the back like that because it's a 3 piece or is that your normal way? I've never seen that before and I really like it.
Whereabouts in England do you live?
Do you have a website?


Joe, I always use an X braced back of some description, sometimes just a single one in the lower bout, with a transverse brace in the upper bout, or like this with two X braces. I like to build with a stiff back, and find that the Xs do this and stiffen the back.

I'm down in Kent, but spent several years living in Durham when I taught at the University there. I don't have a website I'm afraid.

Colin
Author:  Colin S [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Window Frame Mahogany 00-13
Don Williams wrote:
<sigh> Steve beat me to it...

Gorgeous instrument, and I also share the view that we are sorely challenged here for old window material being that nice...


Thanks Don, If you and Steve like it, then I'm content. Having just duff uPVC window frame material in the US didn't stop Ovation using it for their backs. ;)

Colin
Author:  Terence Kennedy [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:48 am ]
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Awesome Colin!
Author:  douglas ingram [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:51 am ]
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She's awesome, Colin.

After seeing one of your earlier FE19 based steel strings, and after working away on my first non-Selmer steel string (a L-00 a "classic"al steel string) I am very tempted to use the FE19 plantilla in the future...that's assuming that I build more steel string guitars rather than nylon...
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