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Definitely will - I'm going to enjoy the project.

That's cool your son wants to build with you - there aren't many LP kits out there, come to think of it. I'm about 95% done building a Strat with my younger son (16 yo), I had a chambered walnut body lying around that I had made a few years ago - naturally, he wanted it painted in flat black (of course, what else?) but it does sport a diamond-plate pickguard, an inspired choice if I must say so.

I've also started a bass with my older son (17 yo), hopefully we'll finish it before he goes off to college next year.

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I spent the weekend in Connecticut. My friend put on an arts and music festival and I set up a booth on Saturday. I showed this guy, a new 14 inch shape for me:



I am very happy with the sound on this guy and I got some great feedback and got to hear some really great players go to town on it. I got to see a nice fretless bass also by my buddy Chip. It sounded great. On Sunday I met with a new customer and went over some details, looks like a Lutz/Australian Blackwood is in the works. I am excited for that. I also gave another guitar a 2 month checkup and my verdict is that I hate humidity. The guitar is fine but needed a little tweaking. All I have to say is that 80% humidity is, like, too high. Sometimes I feel like I say it, and no one really hears it.

Saturday night at the festival I got to see some awesome music. The headliner was Sam Kininger and his band. I was blown away!! They were so good. Anybody who is near Connecticut, my buddy runs Downright music in Collinsville (Canton) and there is a really cool scene going on there. They have great concerts all the time and attract a lot of amazing musicians.

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Brookline, MA.

Fillipo, No magic involved in my FP finishing schedule... nor do I have 3 arms... although sometimes I sure wish I did.. or maybe an endless supply of energy...

After the guitar has been sanded and scraped and ready for finish I begin with two sessions of pore filling w/ Z-poxy, sanding back w/ 220 and then 320 after the second pass. At least 3 bodying sessions of FP followed with a spiriting off and then leveling w/ 1500 wet-dry and olive oil using a pink pearl eraser as a sanding block. (I have always liked them because the tapered tip allows you to get in close to the bridge, fretboard and neck joint.)

Another 3 bodying sessions and another spiriting off and leveling/sanding session this time w/ 2500 wet-dry and olive oil. I prefer olive oil, it's not as viscous as mineral oil and easily carries away the removed shellac. Keep wiping the sandpaper on a rag or paper towel to keep it clean and free of any debris. I have tried using mineral spirits and also water with a bit of dish soap and I'm still partial to the olive oil for overall results, minimizing clogging and life of the wet/dry paper.

I keep up the bodying, spiriting and leveling process until I'm satisfied with the finish. Letting the finish rest for a day between sessions allows the finish to harden a bit prior to the sanding & leveling. A final session of FP after the "final" leveling to really bring up the gloss.

I use Tru-oil on the neck and it gives me a break between FP sessions on the body. At least 12 - 16 coats of Tru-oil w/ a leveling session about every 5 or 6 coats.

Lastly a polish w/ 3M Plastic Polish after the finish has rested for about 3 to 5 days.

I usually try and have some other shop work scheduled to fill in between the sessions.

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Peter

Trying something new. Here is my contribution to the weekend thread:

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

Wow, nice archtop there Steve - is that a one-piece back on it?!

I was busy all weekend with my first classical guitar build. Things went slower than I hoped, but I got the soundboard finished and the back nearly done.



Also, on Sunday, I attained the grand old age of 52, so spent some time celebrating that.

Cheers,
Dave F.

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Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

Dave - first of all, Many Happy Returns of the Day (I am 51 in a couple weeks). Your top looks lovely. The archtop rim I showed in my post in on a workboard (!) I use to keep everything flat (unlike my well-scarred bench), so no, not a one-piece back. The real back is almost done and is really curly maple.

I will watch your build with great interest!

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Wow...lets see...

Friday: (After work of course) Built a camp chair...even got my wife into helping with the sanding drum on drill press. (I'll get her past her power tool phobia some day)
-Put together shaped and finished the bridge for the cedar guitar I have been working on for a bit

Saturday: -Installed new neck on the cedar guitar...had a massive neck install fail and had to do some major rebuilding to save the wonderful red cedar body.
-Cleaned house and back yard for bbq with friends and to watch the UFC fight on the deck.

Sunday: Started with a nice long sleep in.
-Lots of sanding on cedar guitar
-Masked off for the bridge and got the first few coats of finish on the guitar.
-Cut and fretted the fingerboard
-Installed aromatic cedar binding to fingerboard (after I realized I got the width wrong to fit the neck!)
-Semi-leveled the frets...will finish level them after installed on neck
-Started on another camp chair (finished it last night)
-Finally, had some quiet sit down time with the wife and a good meal.

Yeah...a good weekend.

I pulled the binding from the top and back, put together my tru-channel jig, and recut the channels. got the binding back on, now just waiting a couple days for the glue to cure up.

non-guitar-related, did some demolition on our back porch. Its covered and was enclosed, but the enclosure was an eye sore. so removed everyhting except the posts and roof, really opened it up so nicely! Now, just have to replace the eaten up wooden posts and give it some fresh caulk and paint and Bob's your uncle!

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Played some golf, took the wife out to dinner, and got the box closed on a commissioned Mad Rose OM. Sounds like we have similar projects going John H., but you'll beat me done



Ken

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We pitched a tent about 20 ft from this river Friday AM. Ate, read, slept. Broke camp Sunday. Drove home. Not much else. It was really fine.



Pat

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Happy Belated birthday Dave!

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Blain

http://www.ullrichguitar.com

"89.67% of all statistics are made up on the spot."

Finally got my new 12 string into finishing. Here's the first coat. Also working on 3 new mandolin necks, and cut into a snakewood log that I got.

Actually Fillipo, if you look at the binding size strip just above the clamps, sitting on the mandolin fingerboard, you will see that I tried it first thing. Bends nicely with a little spit and a heat gun, so I don't expect any problems with supersoft and bending blanket.
Sure weighs a ton though...the log was 4-1/2" x 51" and weighs 29#!

Pat Foster,
Guitars are good, but it looks like you found the higher calling, nice camping spot!

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I also finished up this build. Lutz top, Colorado maple b/s from my friend Mike Collins of Argyle New York. FP on the top and tru-oil b/s. No recordings but It is my favorite yet.

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What me do this past weekend?

Well since you ask...the Padma did the 3 day vision quest for my next build, which I posted here.

http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10101&t=23656

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Audiences and dispensations on Thursdays ~ by appointment only.


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Filippo, that made me laugh! We have a couple of trees here. There is a very large spruce looking tree near my house I have been pondering turning into a huge stash! I notice trees a lot more than I used to.



Montana is every bit as pretty as advertised. I have a series of photos I took all within about forty miles of my house that are pretty amazing. I live in the Gallatin valley. We are surrounded by four mountain ranges and very close to the headwaters of the Missouri river. That is the confluence of the Madison, Jefferson, and Gallatin rivers. Fishing, hiking, hunting, camping, skiing....all the outdoor activities are close and easy. The best part for me is that the crowds are few and a busy crowded day at the lake means there might be ten cars in the parking lot. You should come. See Yellowstone and Glacier and be amazed at the wonder of it all.

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Well, sometimes you just get sick of building guitars and mandolins!
A friend of ours is beginning his slide to eternity, and while he's still active upstairs, his ole body is starting to give out. His wife asked me to build them a pine coffin, and while at first I was kinda taken aback, I decided I'd do it.
So, this is what I've been doing the last week. Thought for a while I should just build two, but think I'd rather be in a Mason Jar!
Probably one of the strangest requests I've ever had, and it was interesting measuring him up while he cracked jokes...

Now that it's finished, I'm happy to have had the honor. Going to be an interesting delivery too.

Wow, that's pretty special Haans!
It's funny just today it crossed my mind wondering what you were up to as I hadn't seen any posts in a while.
Never thought of this though.

Seriously, I think that is pretty special!

Joe

That's great Haans! How does it sound?

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Well, it is solid wood and the top is ladder braced...
Kinda sounding though...
Think I built it too heavy...
Time to clean out the mountain of pine dust in the shop...

Haans,

Does that come with a deathtime warranty Very cool

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De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Absolutely Filippo, that's why they ring the doorbell and run like he!!...
Fedex is worse...they don't even ring the doorbell.