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That just awesome Filippo!! It's great that you are working with your son and he is very lucky to have you teaching him these skills. Nothing better than a father and son spending time together and building a guitar is about as good as it gets.

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Formerly known as Adaboy.......

That is great. Some of my best memories are from when my son and I worked together. He's grown now so we don't get to do that as often.

Great guitar choice; an O16NY was my first real acoustic and I love it. Bought this one new in '67 or '68. I've got it in the shop for a refret, probably a neck reset, and to get a couple of cracks fixed.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

It's so great to see you getting your son involved Filippo! My 16-year old son Harry is just starting to show interest in my laser and woodworking tools, so there's hope yet. I caught him playing my piano the other day too - ores mirabile!! I think I"ll show him your posting and see if that spurs him into action - I'd LOVE to do a guitar buildalong with him. Please keep the thread updated with more pictures and words as the build progresses. Oh, and your workshop is way too clean and tidy - have you been reading Hesh's postings again?

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"

I think it is wonderful . A great way for you and your son to be connected for life. Keep in interested in things like this and he won't be looking for other forms of "entertainment". Keep us informed of his progress .

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John Hall
blues creek guitars
Authorized CF Martin Repair
Co President of ASIA
You Don't know what you don't know until you know it

Way cool!

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Laurent Brondel
West Paris, Maine - USA
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Very cool! Keep us posted...

I hope to do the same with my son in about 10 years (he's only 1.5 yrs right now)

Trev

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Great stuff Filippo. Regardless how the guitar turns out, he'll remember the experience for ever!

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Dave
Milton, ON

Beautiful thread Filippo!
Lucky kid and dad!

Joe

Hi Filippo,
This is a great thing! I built my first guitar when I was 14 years old,so I know how exciting it can be.

Please make sure your son is very familair with all the safety rules-I noticed he is wearing a long floppy sweatshirt while using the Performax-This a a no-no in my book.

Regards,
Brad

Really cool! It's always a great thing to share a common interest with your son.We need more of this in our world for sure.

That's an inspiration Filippo!

I've got to get in the shop with my sons and daughter. too!

I bet you both have a great time

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Say what you do, Do what you say.

You are right on one of my primary guitar building goals. I would like to have parent child teams in the shop to build together, I would prefer to stick with instruments, but if some one wanted to build a dresser, I would be ok with that.

I would love to read your "teaching notes" on the build, what concepts did you think were hard and he picks up right away, and what you think is easy but turns out hard. How many hours do you feel it is effective to work together, do you notice any grouchiness after 4,5,or 6 hours. Of course every learner is different, but we all know teaching is very different skill then doing. Is this your first teaching build? What teaching techniques come into play, how will your experiences learning with Todd help you teach?

Hope my questions are not too general, but the "How to build with a teen ager" topic is a big one in my personal building goals. Lucky me, a charter high school just moved into our building and the teacher is a guitar player who I have performed with, and 2500 sq. ft. of shop space is open below the school, almost seems like some stars are aligning.
Great for you Filippo, as John pointed out with, "entertainment" in quotes, this is quality parenting and I hope your project inspires your son's friends and families to do similar activities.
Rob

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the top-tapping shot is priceless! can I get on his wait list?

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"...you have to get over your strict adherence to your largely imagined notion of absolute perfection..."

That is so cool to see a young one have that level of intensity to detail and learning...you done good dad!

Right on! Pretty snazzy first guitar. Lucky pair!

It's a great thing you are doing, Filippo!

Just think, in a couple of years, you'll be fighting them for shop time!

Are you making them buy their own Zoot stash?

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

What fun! I love making instruments with my kids too. My daughter (11 yo) is building a 00-12 fretter now, and we are both learning a lot. One thing I have to learn is to stay away and allow her actually do it...

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Its great that you kids want to come in and build with you. My kids don't have much interest in what I do in the shop - its too ordinary for them. Their friends think that what I do is cool, so not all is lost.

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Expectation is the source of all misery; comparison the thief of joy.
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I love the photo of the young man with the blue sweatshirt putting tape on the sides of the guitar neck...he has his tongue in the correct position! Got to be a "natural"!

A couple of my grandchildren are making noises about a guitar...like "pappa, can you build me one"? When they get really serious, I think I'll propose they come to the shop and we'll do it together.

I've mentored 8 high school seniors who built guitars for their Senior Projects. It's a year long process and they come out of it with a first rate acoustic guitar. One young man received the top award at his school for taking on the most challenging/time consuming project. The summer after graduation he was sitting out one evening at a local Starbuck's, picking the guitar with a couple of friends and another customer, listening to the guitar, offered him $3,000 for it. Needless to say, he passed on the offer...but he gave the guy my name!!

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Hank Mauel

Awesome! What a nice project to share.
But I am just gunna go back into my cave with my sandpaper jointer....

I hope your son knows how lucky he is to have you helping him. It's a great thing you are doing - he will have a nice sense of accomplishment after he strings it up for the first time.

These guitars are going to be really pretty - I love smaller guitars. The back and sides are kind of opposites - the light mahogany with the darker center and the dark Brazilian with the sapwood. They will look great next to each other.

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John Lewis
Wannabe builder owned by 2 crazy dachshunds

At that age, just tell him the chicks really dig luthiers.

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If you can't do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly.

So Filippo...what's up with the shop with hardwood floors, base AND crown molding? I just got off the concrete slab floor about 10 years ago and I'm lucky at that!
Next I suppose you're going to show us the leather recliner, wet bar and mega big flat panel tv.

Is that a "man cave" or what????? Ain't like no shop I ever saw.

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Hank Mauel

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Hank Mauel