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I working on my next build... Keeping it simple.

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Steve Sollod (pronounced sorta like "Solid")
www.swiftcreekguitars.com

It's time to carve the neck on the latest:

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

I've got a neck to buff out tomorrow at which point I can do final setup on the last guitar on the shelf of ufo's. After that I get to build what ever I want for the next couple. Yay me!

Additional: I forgot about yesterday. Guitar body octave mando neck carve...

What's that material in the rosette? I like it!

Ditto!

Looks like palm wood

Fixing sunbursts - !953 Guild X-175 getting frets, 1961 Gibson J-45 needs a bridge, an Epi AJ with a broken head, an Epi LP with a broken head, and a funkly 1938 or 9 Regal "cowboy" guitar that needs..... a lot of love.



Also building a tele clone, but nothing special about that

So not much happening then?!

Sweet looking clone!

Getting some tooling ordered for my first build. Selecting woods and such (maple or sapele?). Also getting my setlist polished up to open a concert for Phil Keaggy tomorrow.

Also got a few interesting repairs going at work, nothing crazy. Just a guy that decided to level his own frets with a mill file. He failed, fun times haha!

Wow. Cool to open for Phil Keaggy. You must be very good.

The rosette above is end grain of black palm. I tried to arrange the pieces to make it denser dots on one side and a little sparser on the other.

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Steve Sollod (pronounced sorta like "Solid")
www.swiftcreekguitars.com

I usually have a couple guitars in for fret level and setup, but now I've got eight! I just got ultra low action on a larrivee. I thought it was because of the compound radius, but I just got the same on a Gibson with 12", so I must be doing something right. As soon as I get these done I can start on a commissioned concert Uke.

Dan, good call. It's always best to play BEFORE Phil Keaggy!

Steve, slick black palm. Actually I sensed the shading but my eyes just told me it was the lighting. Good work!

New username, same ole Pat Macaluso!

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Pat

Adi & Honduran rosewood dred ready for finish. Based on a bracing plan of a '37 D (28?) from John Arnold.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

I've been busy devising the super-ultimate adjustable workboard:



And foraging for mushrooms in our local forests:

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George :-)

Chanterelles!! Yum!!

Wow it's way to late in the season now here in Virginia for chantrelles. I love them though!

Been thinking about the same thing recently.
Please let us know how that goes - maybe a tutorial?

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

I'm just doing my 3rd fret job and setup this week.
First a Martin D-1GT, then an Epiphone LP, now a sweet little Martin 00-18 SH, #231 of 250.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

I have a BZ/Adi dred and double side Mahogany/Sitka OM going. BZ/Adi 000 12F should be back from finish next week. Couple of repairs waiting.

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It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you do know that's wrong.

I FINALLY delivered this guitar today to a young musician and great guitarist.

I finished the top with post catalyzed Royal Lac sprayed on top of a shellac wash coat. It took a bit as I did not like how the first top was reacting to the load and retopped it.











On my bench is a pair of soprano ukuleles that I am making for a couple of very young identical twins, commissioned by their parents. These ukuleles are made from tops and components I grabbed from the classified section on this site.

Here are the kitted parts. They both will have figured Koa bindings.



I am ready to close them up but I want to glue in the label first and need to ask the parents if they have a preference about who gets what.

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Looks like a bunch of nice traditionals. Terry, looks like the BRW bent well...
John, nice lookin' 9 string...back is?
I have been doing my usual drooling, wishing, remembering and got a steroid shot in the adz today so I could breathe easier.

Thanks It is an 8 string crossover! The back and side are bocote also bought on this site. The fretboard is rocklite sundari. I really liked this product.

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It bent just fine Hans. It will be beautiful. Would have preferred using it on a smaller instrument but couldn’t talk the customer out of a dred

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It's not what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you do know that's wrong.

Thumbing through some real nice BRW sets for a couple up coming projects.

Not seeing that well anymore...counted 7 the first time...should have just counted tuners.

Sitting in a hotel room in Reno, evacuated from our place because of the Camp Fire. The whole town of Paradise on the next ridge over is gone. We held out for a time but was running out of gas for the generator so we put 5 of the guitars in the van, some clothes and vital papers and left.

The perimeter is about 3 miles away from the place and the wind is blowing toward the fire, so we're hoping for the best. Had to buy a new computer to get back online.