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| Author: | johnparchem [ Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
I just finished this guitar today.  I want to wait a day before I string the guitar up, but not wait to show it off. I am waiting for the bridge glue to cure before I string it up. But other than that that I am ready to go. I build this guitar for a niece of mine.The headstock veneer and and rosette are cut from an amboya burl I found at Rocklers.     
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| Author: | Clinchriver [ Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Very nice guitar. Need a few more particulars....Koa? Cedar top? |
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| Author: | johnparchem [ Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Clinchriver wrote: Very nice guitar. Need a few more particulars....Koa? Cedar top? Whoops, This is Koa I bought at the GAL auction, with a cedar top. The guitar has ebony bindings and purflex purflings. I finished with Colortone Waterbased lacquer, which I think is close to in not EM6000. |
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| Author: | Matt Bouchie [ Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Wow, that is beautiful! Matt |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Pretty instrument... |
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
If that's not the definition of exquisite, I don't what is. |
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| Author: | Colin North [ Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
A well put together combo. I love parlours. How did you find the finish to use? |
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| Author: | johnparchem [ Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Thanks guy for looking and your positive comments. It was hard to go back to 1906 to make it; actually I started from the Ridgewood Designs 1906 Parlor Guitar plans form from Allied Lutherie. Although I changed the headstock on this one. Colin North wrote: A well put together combo. I love parlours. How did you find the finish to use? I really like working with the Colortone Water base and I like how it looks when I am is finished. This is my forth guitar using it. I spray the finish undiluted. I found that it easy to spray an even coat that levels nicely. On another guitar I have done repairs over it and I can sand out and buff the repairs with no witness lines between the old and the new finish. In a day I would spray 4 coats with about 90 minutes in between. I would do a light sand the next morning. I have 8 coats on the top and the neck and 16 coats on the back and sides. |
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| Author: | claire_au [ Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Nice guitar. I like that you do this around the workshop. Woohhoo! And....congratulations 
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
All you need is a Delorean, and go up to 88mph. That said, lovely guitar! Is the soundhole diameter the same as on the original 1906? It looks big. |
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| Author: | johnparchem [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Ti-Roux wrote: All you need is a Delorean, and go up to 88mph. That said, lovely guitar! Is the soundhole diameter the same as on the original 1906? It looks big.  I should of said modified 1906 (mainly I kept the brace pattern, and the shape) I did make the sound hole bigger. Rightly or wrongly I liked the look, also I have very big hands. Honestly I am not sure what it does to the sound.
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| Author: | Beth Mayer [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Very sweet! |
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| Author: | gozierdt [ Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Very nice . I built two 0-sized guitars a couple of years ago. I think they soundamazing for small guitars. Enjoy this one! |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
johnparchem wrote: Ti-Roux wrote: All you need is a Delorean, and go up to 88mph. That said, lovely guitar! Is the soundhole diameter the same as on the original 1906? It looks big. I should of said modified 1906 (mainly I kept the brace pattern, and the shape) I did make the sound hole bigger. Rightly or wrongly I liked the look, also I have very big hands. Honestly I am not sure what it does to the sound.You can't decide the soundhole dimension based on the look (well, you can, but it's maybe not the better idea) It really affects the sound. Theorically, you'll loose some bass by enlarging the soundhole. You raise up the main air resonance, in fact. That's not what you are looking for on a parlor guitar, I think. That said, I'm sure it does sound really nicely anyways. |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
On working on a size 1 model, wich is a bit smaller than a 0, and the soundhole will be 3.25''. |
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| Author: | johnparchem [ Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Ti-Roux wrote: On working on a size 1 model, wich is a bit smaller than a 0, and the soundhole will be 3.25''. The plans I have called out a 3.7" sound hole, mine is 3.9" The guitar sounds good and the bass sounds balanced with the treble strings but maybe not as good as it can sound. On my first parlor the sound hole was 3.75" but it also had a sound port. I really like how it sounded. This guitar does not have a sound port. The sound port on my other guitar had an area of about 2 sq inches. I added a about 1sq inches to the sound hole. My theory, flawed as it maybe, is that adding a sound port lowers the overall air resistance more than the change I made to the sound hole. I know that with sound there are other factors but this was the theory that I had that allowed me to give it a try. Now I am also able to get my hand in if I need to do repairs. |
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| Author: | Freeman [ Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
What plans? What bracing? How did you pore fill the koa? And obviously you can't answer (yet) but how does it sound? |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
johnparchem wrote: Ti-Roux wrote: On working on a size 1 model, wich is a bit smaller than a 0, and the soundhole will be 3.25''. The plans I have called out a 3.7" sound hole, mine is 3.9" The guitar sounds good and the bass sounds balanced with the treble strings but maybe not as good as it can sound. On my first parlor the sound hole was 3.75" but it also had a sound port. I really like how it sounded. This guitar does not have a sound port. The sound port on my other guitar had an area of about 2 sq inches. I added a about 1sq inches to the sound hole. My theory, flawed as it maybe, is that adding a sound port lowers the overall air resistance more than the change I made to the sound hole. I know that with sound there are other factors but this was the theory that I had that allowed me to give it a try. Now I am also able to get my hand in if I need to do repairs. I was not blaming you at all, and I hope it didn't look this I was. All I was saying is that everyone should think or investigate on the effects of a possible change. Ti-Roux wrote: My theory, flawed as it maybe, is that adding a sound port lowers the overall air resistance more than the change I made to the sound hole. In fact= The larger the soundhole, the higher the air frequency. Adding a soundport, like you said, is pretty like enlarging the soundhole. |
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| Author: | johnparchem [ Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Ti-Roux wrote: I was not blaming you at all, and I hope it didn't look this I was. All I was saying is that everyone should think or investigate on the effects of a possible change. I took your comments in a very positive way; actually I appreciated your time to comment on my work and I also thought about the size of the sound hole throughout the time I have been construction the guitar. This is only my eighth guitar; still learning but time to start experimenting. To all thanks for the feedback on my work. |
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| Author: | Ti-Roux [ Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
johnparchem wrote: This is only my eighth guitar; still learning but time to start experimenting. That is funny. I've built only 3 acoustic guitars yet, but since I was in a 3years guitarmaking program, we did so much more research, experimenting, analyses and theorization than real lutherie work. It's time to start real work for me 
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| Author: | GHatcher [ Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
I will agree with everyone that this is a beautiful guitar. Where did you find the peghead inlay? I have been wanting something similar. Greg |
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| Author: | johnparchem [ Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
GHatcher wrote: I will agree with everyone that this is a beautiful guitar. Where did you find the peghead inlay? I have been wanting something similar. Greg Thanks, The peghead inlay is my logo. I saw a photo in the newspaper after one harvest moon of a hawk in front of the full moon. So I based my logo on that photo. |
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| Author: | Jim Watts [ Thu Apr 05, 2012 12:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
wow, so many beautiful guitar showing up all fo sudden, Great job John, thanks for sharing. |
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| Author: | johnparchem [ Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Just Completed Martin 0 sized 1906 Parlor Guitar. |
Freeman wrote: What plans? What bracing? How did you pore fill the koa? And obviously you can't answer (yet) but how does it sound? I used the plans from Allied Lutherie for the 1906 Parlor. I followed the plans bracing pattern. It is a short scale neck. I changed from slot head to peg head. I pore fill with Zpoxy, I sprayed the Colortone WB (EM6000) right on the zpoxy. I have strings on the guitar now. It plays really well, I got the geometry correct so I was able to set it up properly. It is the best sounding of the three parlor guitars I have made. I really like the sound. I had a couple of good players play it for me so that I could hear it. The guitar is very responsive and the harmonics really ring clean. Overall I am really happy with this guitar. Thanks all for the comments. |
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