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Well my bench is pretty clean this weekend having gotten some repairs out of here, finished a new guitar and sent it out for finishing, and did a fret job, made a nut, etc. on an old one of mine.

So I am going to play around with some Super Soft 2 and do what I always do when I am trying to learn something and that is do some tests on scrap. To date I have resisted using Super Soft 2 favoring to just bend with a good method like so many millions of guitars have been bent with prior. But I do see that it's cheap insurance if it works as described and does not have any unwanted side affects.

Oh yeah - for those of you who are not familiar with Everclear it is 190 proof grain alcohol aka: moonshine... and I use it to mix shellac and for french polishing. I was on Hesh's big adventure this week and traveled to Indiana and while there I picked up a bottle. My last bottle is 3 years old and still 1/2 full... but this stuff is very hygroscopic and as such it's probably time to replace it with anew bottle.

Folks who take Robbie O'Brien's French polishing class will hear Robbie describe Everclear too. It is used instead of denatured alcohol and safer that DA too provided that you don't drink it.... or have any open flames or sparks near it....

So an easy weekend here for me which is a nice change.

So my friends what's on your bench(s) this weekend?

Thanks

Right now I have a personal build IRW/ADI SJ in the paint booth getting a ..<shshshsh!> Black lacquer top finiish That all i have going right now

Likely finish pore filling the claro walnut J-185. Don't know if I'll be ready to shoot over weekend, but should at least have it ready for spraying by the end of weekend.

Ken

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I'll hopefully get the top and bottom glued on by the end of the weekend.

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Two nights ago what was on my bench was the 2 classicals that I recently assembled and am getting ready to bind. Then the rains came. Somehow California's weather made it all the way here. What is on my bench now is all the various pieces of lumber that were leaning up against the wall on the floor, since somehow the water found a way in at one corner of the floor. When the rains eventually stop, I will repair the leak, but they just don't seem to stop. And this is ARIZONA!! At least my dehumidifier is working overtime and it has not gotten any higher than 55%, and there is no bracing or assembly happening right now. Wendy

Nothing .. Its national Hesh day and I just cleaned it up

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Am about to finish this guitar stand. This was a first test run on some cheap scrap wood, to see how it looks. Perhaps I will make another one with some nice Walnut.
Guess I just like the way the Taylor one looks.
Strangly you can not buy any wooden stands in Germany; only the metal versions which I don't like.

Right Now . A Cat !! That thinks she own the place and likes to get right in and help me glue stuff , and then run around and wallow in sawdust !!!

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back and neck have been glued on and surprisingly enough haven't broken from their bonds and flew across the room. i got a headstock in need of an pearl inlay and a fret board needing to be slotted, shaped and fretted. Looks like I got another trip to Exotic on saturday morning, i love that store lol

I did a little rosette assembly over the last couple of days. Hope it will be dry when I get home tonight.

Here, assembling in a work board.


All the parts in place.


Close-up.


Last night I put it in the top for #4. Flooded with Thinned Fish Glue, per Mike Collins.

Weighted down for drying.

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I don't have a work bench right now. I just moved and need to set up my shop.

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Waiting for a certain person to give up their Band saw

Well the saw is ready to go now Mike and my new one came in this afternoon and I am going to get it tomorrow morning. Let me know when you wanna come over and talk guitars and get your saw.

One Mad Rose OM waiting for customer to approve the neck, two EIR cutaways all porefilled waiting to be used as a test run of KTM-SV. And one is a 25" scale that I actually intend to keep for myself! Huzzah!

Ah, well, it's busy. Just had a student in to thickness his replacement soundboard and ask lots of questions. Cat's in her shop rebuilding a blown Gibson. On my bench, let's see, there's the rim of a new Concert Jumbo (red spruce/koa), soundboard and back of a size 5 Sprite (red spruce/maple), the Concert I'm building for Danny O'Keefe (red spruce/koa, am I in a rut?), and a re-topped Lawrence Juber Martin. The latter two are being shipped Monday for spraying; the two new ones may or may not be done by Wintergrass but I hope so!

Rick

Sorry but no pictures. But I have three on the go right now. A Dread with Honduran Rosewood and Carpathian ,a Dread with African Mahogany with some of Shanes Lutz and a Gurian shaped one of EIRW again with Lutz. Rims are complete, backs complete,last braces went on the tops today.Taking the weekend off and next week we are into brace carving( actually have some of that done already)and voicing,then finally get the boxs together. Things seem to be going slow until this happen and then all of a sudden you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Necks and fingerboard are also well on thier way. Bridges complete. Been at this since Oct. My pace is not very fast but no hurry as long as they are finished by April. May try to work out this picture thing.A bit of a computer dummy here. Cheers.
Tom

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I have just started the varnishing stage on this one. WRC and Coco, Ebony bindings and Maple purflings. Top headplate is Coco and back headplate is Ebony.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Cheers

Pat

My daughter and I are making progress on her 12-fret ought-size koa. Dinking around with glitter and vibration modes. This is fascinating stuff. I can see how the time spent doing this could get out of hand. Um.....







Nice to see you here, Rick! I'm still sitting on one of the tops from Michael G that you handed out at the Northwest gathering coupla years ago. Good memories, great company and info. Thanks again.

Pat

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Finishing a rose for my next build.It's going on a curly maple om.

On the bench there is nothing, I like to clean it every time before I leave the shop...

...But on one repair shelf there's a peghead that needs to be reglued, a cracked soundboard / bridge reglue, mandolin neck reglue, another cracked soundboard, a refret, a pickup install and probably a couple of more that I'm forgetting. As for my own stuff, I'm finishing an OM cutaway and a 000, I'm starting a baritone and an electric, and on the side I'm building this mandola with only Norwegian woods, and I'm documenting it on MIMF and TLC, so I have pictures! Today I fitted the X-brace

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Earlier in the week, it was this:


Now, I'm back to work on a version of the Loar A5 mandolin in quilted maple and German spruce:

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I have a rosewood/ adi spruce olf s-j body and neck ready for assembly, and the mohogany laid out for another , which was going to be an s-j but now that I find the only cases available that fit are $500.00 .i might need to change my plans, I dont want to build martins , I dont have it in me to sell someone a guitar then say " oh by the way . the only case that fits that is gonna cost you $ 500.00" . jody

I'm going to buff this Parlor, and assemble it.

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Jody, what about this SJ case from Ameritage? Its still not cheap but beats $500.
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Laid down the last coat of lacquer on my "A" mando. It's going to be a long two weeks. However I have a set of OLF-OM plans that will help keep me entertained. I'm startiing an OM for my oldest friend on the planet who has helped me out a lot with house renos and framing my shop. He is in desperate need of a decent guitar. Maybe I can commission one of you guys! If you can't practice on your friends........ He did pay for the plan though.

Have a Great Weekend,
Danny