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charlton
PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:41 am 
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Ten individuals were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to be a part of John Ressler's guitar-making class held at Lee Valley last week. It was a great learning opportunity and we all walked away with absolutely wonderful-sounding (and looking) guitars (albeit unfinished at this point). John was a wonderful instructor (patient, I might add) and we all had a fun time (except when sanding).

I thought I'd share a couple of photos.

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joe white
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Nice photo Charlton. Looks like John didn't get too far with his guitar. laughing6-hehe

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Looks like your butterfly inlay turned out just fine .. did the pattern work out as you and I discussed it ??? .. looks great !!!!

With strings on, who's sounded the best ???

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Not just because he posted this, but Charlton's was really sweet sounding. Ara would take 2nd! There were no disappointments on any of them. They all sounded good and looked great. This was a great class and everyone worked hard to make it happen

Tony - thanks for the glue and for stopping in at the class. And thanks for letting me visit your shop Sun evening. I always learn a lot when I visit another builder and you sure have some gorgeous looking guitars! The butterfly inlay was perfect!

Joe - I was the slow one in the class - give me a break!

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charlton
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TonyKarol wrote:
Looks like your butterfly inlay turned out just fine .. did the pattern work out as you and I discussed it ??? .. looks great !!!!

With strings on, who's sounded the best ???


The butterfly actually turned out awesome (in not so modest terms). Thanks for your input on this (sent you an email separately---not sure if you got it or not)...I certainly wouldn't have thought about gluing the pieces together and the chatoyance on my piece of MOP fits the butterfly perfectly.

I can't say who's sounded the best but I'll be honest...mine sounds pretty darn good. I actually think it sounds better than my Larrivee. :-o
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joe white wrote:
Nice photo Charlton. Looks like John didn't get too far with his guitar. laughing6-hehe


John was too busy kicking our hinds to meet the schedule. :) Unlike my day job, this is one time when I actually enjoyed because under the schedule gun.
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Never got the email Charlton ... sent to my web site email ????

try tony dot karol at rogers dot com

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TonyKarol wrote:
Never got the email Charlton ... sent to my web site email ????

try tony dot karol at rogers dot com


Oops. I sent it to the one from your website: ajk@karol-guitars.com. I'll resend to you at this one.
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yeah .. the site is down for an update right now ...

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