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Tasty indeed!

What width blade are you using and what bandsaw?

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

Dam Hanns, you just got it down!
That is one purty rosette, and I love that wide grained top.
Gonna be one fine oak parlor!

Joe

Man I'm drooling over that purfling........SWEET!!!

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Formerly known as Adaboy.......

That rosette looks awesome!

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Thanks folks, it was an interesting mental exercise ( ) and fun except for all the heavy duty cutting, sanding and gawd, I can't remember using so much glue in ages! I think in the future, I will do another one and incorporate some green in there somewhere. Hopefully some more of you will get creative with purfling too.
JJ, the carbide Lennox I bought is a 1/2" 4TPI, but for all around work I use a Starrett bimetal, 3/16" 10 or 14 TPI, depending on what I'm doing. The bandsaw is an old Powermatic similar to the welded frame Jet saws.

Is this "old timey" or what!!

Dam! pass the either, I've got the vapors!
Definitely gonna need a bigger drool cup,

Joe

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Beautiful work.

In reading through this thread my thought process has been

WOW that's really cool purfling Haans made

Wait a minute he wants to make it

What Waddy sez. Make logs just like it talks about in the book on Torres I am reading.

WOW Haans made it that's really cool

Looks perfect on that parlor. WOW that looks REALLY REALLY COOL

I'm impressed. That's a lot of work and it looks exactly like it should. Very nice

Tim

I really got enthused both at seeing what the purfling would look like on the instrument and just what an oak guitar would sound like. This thing sounds way better than I thought it would.
Tony, I'm not sure what Larsons meant when they advertised as "tensioned tops". None of the info that I have is more specific than that. I have bent a 30' radius top over a 20' radius rim with some success, but I have so many things going on with this instrument (ladder bracing, oak, tone tubes) that I was a little nervous about bending a flat top over a radius (if that is indeed what they did). Any domed top is tensioned I guess as the spruce is bent over the bracing. This one has a 15' cylindrically braced top and rim, and the back a 10' dome radius. Here's the shot before buttoning up...



Thanks for all the kind words and support on this project, folks. Yer all a good bunch of folk!

Haans, great work. Very nice to see her guts. What thickness did you use for those bridge plates?

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Chris Oliver
Infinity Luthiers
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Just beautifull!!
You got ta'powah man!

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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.

Chris, the spruce plate is .118" and the Coco is just a 1/32" veneer.

Haans, have you done this setup in the past? How is the wear and tear on that bridge ply-plate? It's makin' me nervous.

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Chris Oliver
Infinity Luthiers
...in the shop.

live every minute...

Chris, I haven't done this before, but it's basically the same as what John How is using. Petros does it on their guitars too. Yea, I'm a little nervous too, but it seems pretty stiff and you have to remember, the guitar is only 12-1/2". It's some very hard red spruce (top and plate), and the Coco is C/A treated. Also, the bridge itself stiffens things up quite a bit and the scale is 24.9". We'll see...