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No guitar building, "on Vacation". I went swimming in Little River in the Smokies, went to a Jam night and open mike at Music Row in Maryville Tn. and did a little Guitar picking with my mother in law's step son up at his Lake house. I took my last 2 guitars to the jam and they were played by a bunch of good pickers, and I got to play a prewar Brazilian and red spruce D28. It was a little strange jamming some acoustic blues on such an old guitar with a 18 year old kid on my 000 who blew me away with his skills and speed. I guess I'm just too old to learn.

Back home to Canada tomorrow.

Fred

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This weekend, I drew a straight line on a block of wood and marked three spots on the line spaced 35 mm apart. If I get really motivated, I might go downstairs and drill a hole at each of those marks.

For shaping your headstock, Robbie O'Brien has a template method that works well using your drill press instead of a router. It feels safer to me than using a router. This should link http://tinyurl.com/lpwhcw to his youtube video about it.

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Mike Lindstrom

Looking good Filippo,

I fixed my Performax 16/32 (same problem that Brock had) and then made the purfling for #10. It's a herringbone theme that will match the rosette. Pics in a month or so.

Oh, and not to forget, glued the bridges on 8&9. should have pics of those soon also.

Steve

I have a commission for a 000-12 fret . I have the Madagascar Rosewood rim made up , adi top and back braced , kering and blocks in. Tomorrow I will have the body done. A few inlays on the fretboard and I will have a neck by Tues and the guitar ready for spray wed.

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Got my dehumidifier set up and connected to drain outside. Built a tool to set the bridge location. Dropped the bridge and split it a bit on the end. Made another bridge. I'll get it glued on eventually; hopefully sooner rather than later.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Hey Filippo, the Hauser is looking great!
I used a template/router for the headstock on this one - scary but it worked..- I have since picked up the Ridgid oscillating sander and will probably try the next as you have done...

This weekend I have managed to finish carving the neck, final sanding, pore fill, and shot the first round of EM6000.
This build is Englemann and Ovankol, Hauser profile, Ramirez 6-fan bracing:

Got a commission to build a multi-scale 8-string chambered electric - laminated curly maple & walnut 5-piece neck, black walnut body core, figured claro walnut top & back with wenge accent layers - so I went wood shopping!!

To me, the wood shopping part is the most optimistic part of building an instrument - all the possibilities are before you, and you haven't made any mistakes yet!

Here's the top:

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The member formerly known as erikbojerik....

Well not really related to guitar building, but I knocked together a shaving horse for a friend of mine. It's a back-woods foot operated vise to hold a piece of wood while you shape it with a drawknife or spokeshave. The beauty of the device is it's instant clamping and release for turning and holding the wood as you shape it. Chair rungs, tool handles etc.





Pretty handy around the homestead,
Joe

Worked on helping my new dog (rescued from a shelter this week) get used to his new home. He was in serious need of a bath, among other things.



Joe

(not related to guitar building, either, except insofar as dogwalking cuts into building time!)

Nice dog. You can see the happy look on his face.

We went out looking for a house.
This is our 1st time... living in an apartment for years...

It was an adventure... So many messed up houses on the market...
So many expensive houses on the market....

Thanks

John

Built my own "Luthier's Friend" ish clamp set up for my OSS. It works well. Setting up my maple build has been a bear. Making ANOTHER saddle tomorrow. Two nuts as well.

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Been working on this one a while. My first build strictly from scratch.




Haven't technically worked on this this weekend, unless you count calculating the neck angle I'll need.
Neck is walnut from the middle leaf of an old antique table my mother-in-law gave me. It was about a half inch thick and flatsawn, so I cut it into 14/16" wide stripes, flipped them 90 degrees and laminated them together, per advice from Zeigenfuss(spl?) when I first started. Thanks, Z. Body is poplar. It used to be a cutting board. Now it's gonna be a guitar. I started this build many many months ago(actually started the body 20 years ago and gave up when I realised I didn't have enough knowledge to pull it off). It's gone(and is still going) slow, since I'm using mostly hand tools(back saw to cut the scarf joint, jig saw, sanding blocks, surform and rasps), but I'm enjoying seeing it come along.

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Mike

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Looks great! Now I am looking at my maple cutting board......

Mr Boone,
Haven't seen many pix of late.....inquiring minds must know....?

Bought my first Lutherie related tool ... Ryobi 16/32 Drum Sander

I'll pick it up tomorrow. Hmmm guess I'm really going to do this building thing

Took a rest at the weekend..I'd just finished building a thicknesser /sander. Did a trial run with some scrap and it works a treat. However, I got a bit ambitious at one point when I set the table a wee bit too tight. The wood came shooting out the other end like an arrow. Good job it it was a scrap piece!

Now I have to clear a space for it coz there ain't much room in my 8'x 10' workshed.

Bill S.

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Did you mean the sander grabbed the piece and pulled it away from where you inserted it? In that case, your drum is rotating the wrong direction, you are supposed to push it against the direction of the spin of the drum. If not, your sander will be very difficult, if not impossible, to control. Scary, too.

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No, it runs in the right direction...spinning toward me, (Clockwise), I think it hit the tail end of the test piece as it passed through, I must have pushed it back slightly as it left the drum.

Bill

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I spent all day Saturday cleaning up my garage. Yesterday, after making runs to a local thrift center, recycling facility and the city dump, I went to the lumber yard and purchased the materials needed to build the drawers for my workbench. Then I proceeded to make my garage a mess again. :-) However, I should have all the drawers put together in the next couple of evenings. At that point I can re-organize my work area and start my next guitar project. Good times!

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George :-)

Ah yes, drawers, I admire that you are getting done. I have set up benches and carts for about 28 drawers in my shop which will help a lot with the clutter but I still have to build the drawers.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

I took two acoustic blues workshops from Kenny Sultan at Dusty Strings in Seattle. Great stuff and a small size classes. There were about 8 folks total and we spent about 4 hours with him. It was very low key but he sure was a good instructor and I learned a great deal.
Chuck

I french polished all saturday, and then my arm fell off. You've seen it?

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Stopped futzing with the finish on this one (Tru-oil) and decided to move on. I glued the bridge on Saturday night.

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French polishing, Tru-Oil, French polishing, Tru-oil, French polishing, Tru-oil...... etc, etc, etc.

Two just about ready to go out......

Aussie Blackwood w/ Coco bindings


Sisters...

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Peter