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Takin a break to go "plugged"

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Greg
http://garibaldiinstruments.com/

One of those pics shows Todd holding a ruler....what kind of ruler is that?

I am seriously thinking of donning the all black nite gear and taking a trip to Todd's shop....so that I can 'shop' for some planes!....I love hand planes!

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There is no difference between the man that thinks he can....and the man that thinks he cannot.

Greg, those are sweeeet!

Ok, so I've been suffering lackofmotivationitis lately, but I got the neck for the baritone Uke all glued up this week and plan to get that thing and the explorer I've been working on for months ready for finish by Memorial Day........

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Rob

Nice guitar Filippo!

Continuing work on an EIR OM. Body is all ready but for pore filling and routing out the pocket for my f/b bolt down setup. Love the OTT lights as well. Got one over my very unorganized bench.


Ken

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@ Filippo
Nice Lie-Nielsen collection going on there! I've got a long ways to go to catch up. Beautiful guitar too. Like the sapwood in the sides.

Buttoning up a GC red/IRW 6, Larson X bracing...



The rest of it...3 red/white oak parlors, 2 red/white oak 12's, and a red/Honduras 12 box. IRW back on rt...



Taking the day off to visit Bill Hinkley of Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson fame. Bill is in hospice at Vet's Hospital in Mpls and his days are very numbered. He has had a stream of visitors from Garrison Keillor to Peter Ostroushko, and we have all been playing music for him daily.
Here's a short bio...

http://mnfolkarts.org/bill_judy/bill_judy.html

Great looking binding and butt wedge Ken. I just bent the Curly maple binding and purfling for the Dread I am working on. I sure don't get much done this time of year. I will have some photos next time we do a what's happening in your shops thread.

Fred

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Fred Tellier
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Actually Filippo I have that centerline finder. The ruler he's holding in his hand....it looks like it's graduated in thou's.....can't really see though.

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There is no difference between the man that thinks he can....and the man that thinks he cannot.

Got me notes.....thanks a bunch

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There is no difference between the man that thinks he can....and the man that thinks he cannot.

Put in a 100 amp subpanel with 8 new 20 amp GFI outlets and 1 220v 20 amp outlet in the garage/shop. Had to make the prerequisite 3 trips to the hardware store to finish getting the 220v installed. Changed from a 4" box blah blah blah to a single outlet and made the 3rd trip my last. Unpacked my new 18" Rikon and attempted to get it set up (going to have to read Todd's instructions again!) as it came partially assembled from the store but way out of whack along with some extra pieces (where the hell do these go?). Was able to get it running fairly accurately and cut some 7/16" brace sitka brace stock and ran thru my drum sander to clean it up. Next project is to call Lou Iturra and get a 1/4" blade for detail work and see if I can keep from messing up these 2 beautiful mahogany blocks as I cut out my first 4 necks! Oh and kiss my wife's beautiful behind all weekend for letting me purchase this kick ass saw along with the 16/32 drum sander I got 2 weeks ago!

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Bobby Masten

Great looking stuff....everybody.
I'm a day late so I guess my post is "What's happening in your shops May 22nd?" LOL

I finished pore filling an all Koa "Mini Dread". I'll start spraying it sometime next week.

I removed the clamps and started fretting this "Little Jumbo"

And I sprayed the first coats on this Tacoma I'm re finishing.

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I didn't mean to say it, but I meant what I said.
http://www.brackettinstruments.com/

Lacewood. Yeah, it's odd looking no doubt. A pattern similar to quartersawn oak, only much more pronounced. The wood is also referred as silky oak.

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Finished this 14 fret 0 size yesterday. Pictures could be better.

Eastern larch top (tamarack) from a tree on my property
White oak B&S and neck from Rockler
Sitka bracing
Walnut binding

Thanks for looking, Chuck

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For those of you interested in ukuleles, I just finished this all koa concert uke with plumeria flowers inlaid with gold and white MOP and paua. Thanks to Steve Courtright for help in thicknessing the body woods.

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Kevin Mason
Mason Guitars and Ukuleles on Facebook
http://masonguitars.net

All right Chuck!
What is the larch like?

Spend the time at the local hardware shop buying springs, bolts, nuts etc. to build my bender with.
Chuck

Todd, my only experience with Larch may or may not apply. I've used it for making traditional arrows. At the time I could use PO Cedar, Sitka or Larch. I really didn't like Cedar, it was too soft and fragile. I think the desert air dried it out too much, making it too delicate for a budding archer. Between Sitka and Larch, I preferred the Larch. Didn't seem to dent as easily and had a bit more heft to it than the Sitka. I would have continue using it, but my supplier closed up shop for personal reasons. My experience with Larch is limited to making and using 4 dozen arrows from shafts bought at the same time. From what I remember of it, I would give it a go for a top. IIRC, I had Western Larch.

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Aoibeann

Thanks guys for all the kind words. This is my second white oak gtar (built an OM 2 yrs. ago).

Filippo & Haans, this guitar sounded great right off the bench. For a small body gtar it has a strong bass and well balanced throughout the mid and high range. This has surpassed my expectations, I was taking a chance using eastern larch since all other larch users that I could find were of the western variety...Just started another 0 size larch/white oak.

Haans & Todd, eastern larch, aka tamarack, is a rather nice softwood to work with. It is at least as dent resistant as sitka (as has been said), and very stiff like adi. What's the catch?,, it is very dense, so I am not sure how it would work on a larger body. The final thickness of this top is .095 at the soundhole and .090ish at lower bout perimeter. The billets that I have, have too much runout to risk trying on a larger body...And the growth riings are rather far apart, 4/inch or a little less in some places.

I am planning to attend John Halls open house in July, I'll bring it along so you all can have a listen.

Thanks for looking, Chuck

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Lot's of fine work going on out there!
This weekend I installed the neck on my newest build.
I also made a couple of jigs, the Bridge Locator and the W-K Precision Router Base to go with my shiny new trim router:

The coco / Adi dread is bound (with tortoise) and cleaned up somewhat








Neck getting there, too








Here's a madrose 000 that I'm finally getting around to finishing up. Should have strings on shortly.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Lot's of nice work going on here; Arnt, I really like that mad rose

I 'm getting ready to bind a walnut 13-fret 000 and put the top/back braces on a 12-fret size 0. I'm also working on a repair job to make a new neck for 12-string electric.

I've got photos but the camera is in the shop

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Kevin, that's stunning--how's it sound?

Let's see, I got the headstock roughed out on my Coco Classical (#5).

Next, I put together then glued up a Rosette for #5.
Bread boarding to fit up.


Transferring to top.

Flooding with Fish Glue.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Then I roughed out the fan braces and cut the top brace blanks.

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Waddy

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Looks like there has been a lot of beautiful work going on this weekend. Very cool Waddy.

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Tim