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I finished stringing up my 12th instrument a 00 sized cutaway with arm bevel. This is my first instrument with an arm bevel and a cutaway. A lot of interesting challenges for both. I will post a sound clip before the weekend is up. The guitar sounds pretty good. I still need to do a bit of setup work but I wanted it to sit for a couple of days.
Thanks for looking and also thanks for all of the positive comment throughout the build of this guitar.

Western Red Cedar Top
Koa Back and Sides
Ebony Bindings, are bevel veneer, and bridge.
Brazilian Redwood fret board.
Amboyna burl headstock veneer and rosette
Mahogany neck.

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Nice!

Sure is a pretty thing!

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Nicely done, John! Is this one for yourself?

Alex

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Very nice.

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Nick

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Very Nice! What finish did you use?
Steve

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Thanks for the kind comments. The guitar does have a couple cosmetic flaws, that I did my best to minimize on the guitar but over all I am very happy with the way it turned out. I was playing it for about an hour today and it does sound really good.

For now this guitar is for me, I do not have a steel string. The finish for this guitar is water base lacquer EM6000 over zpoxy on the back, sides and neck. Over a blond shellac wash coat on the top.

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What a lovely 00!
Looks like the kind off guitar to lay back on the couch and just wail away!

Absolutely stunning and what a warm looking set of colors too - very, very well done!!!

Really pretty guitar! Nice combination of woods.

Elegant instrument- very nice work!

Nice John! I love Koa. That's a tidy little bevel on there. It would appear you didn't lose much real estate on the top. It looks to be the perfect size for the guitar. I'm just about to start spraying a larger Koa guitar with a bevel myself. How about a close up of the rosette.? It looks cool.

Best of the Season,
Danny

I think it's excellent!
Patrick

Nice. I am working on my first cutaway and it is a challenge. Any advice around the neck joint on the cutaway side? I have my mortice and tenon rough cut but need to get this all lined up with the side. Looks like you did a good job with this

Thanks again to everyone for the kind comments.

Rob,

The neck block need to be trimmed on the cutaway side. On the top of the neck block measure from the center of the neck block and mark half the fretboard body/neck joint width. Extend the taper of the fretboard to the interior face edge of the neck block. Create a parallel line to the line formed by the two marked points above and mark in a smidge little less that the thickness of the sides. Cut the block on that line.

Basically what you want is the block + the rim to match the fret board on the cutaway side. I keep the block a smidge thick because I would rather sand the rims a bit to match the fret board; sanding the fret board to match the sides would be bad.

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Finally a video of it being play. This is a work buddy of mine. He has asked me to build a guitar so I had over to try this one. He has played all of the others as well. This was recorded with my little point and shoot so the audio loses a little. I was really happy with the guitar's sound.

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John, That is a beautiful guitar and it really has a nice sound.




Bob

I really like your guitar. Congratulations!

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Thank You Bob and Stephen for your comments.

Stephen throughout the build you planes are always on my bench. I am amazed at how many times they are the perfect tool to pick up.

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Beautiful guitar

As with several of the others, I really like the combination of colors. Everything
works really well as part of the whole.

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Gene

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Wow...total beauty. How about a close up of the rosette?

Aye, I'd like to see that rosette, too!

Lovely guitar! Big and clear and rich sound!

A close up? then you see the flaws, like obviously not sealing enough before using CA. I padded on shellac three times. I decided the streaks added character and it least it was not green, which happened to me with spruce. The rosette is made with book matched slices from a block that I think was Amboyna burl. On the face of the block that I did not use it had the typical Amboyna burl pattern that one sees so often. I found the bock labeled "misc" at Rockler Woodworking. I used a double strip of fiber purfling for the black lines. I really wanted the line to read, especially with the ebony bindings.

So here is the close up

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Gorgeous!

The guitar is lovely. I think you did a great job!

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Mike

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