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Fully recovered, now from re-topping #5.

Installed top purflings and bindings.

Tapered my fingerboard then put in toothpick pins, then slotted them.

Checked the action to find that I needed to do some additional tapering on the board, which is what I expected, but better safe than sorry. Will taper after gluing it on.


Glued it down with epoxy.

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After (re)making my fretboard it got pinned and glued.

Believe me, i'm about as surprised as all of you that it actually starting to resembled a guitar

Thanks for the kind words, Peter. I just saw your two guitars. They are looking sweet. I look forward to hearing what they sound like.

Regards,
Max

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Nice stuff Foster, Burton, and John! I got my LP to the point of bursting and spraying. With a little luck, I'll get the burst done this week. Probably will end up applying by hand rather than spraying the burst.

Ken

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Finished up a series of vacuum plates.

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Filippo (and Joe!),

I am not sure I have ever seen that exact graft treatment but I have seen enough so much like that I see it as a style I am co-opting rather than something unique. I like it too, the plastic made it so easy. A little acetone and the joints disappear! I can't wait to see it with the color.

On the saw I am planning to give it the full treatment. At least as much as I am able to. I will have a little help, which I will need. I got the full cast iron doors with it but I may make something that will show the shape more, it would be a shame to hide it I think. I am helping a friend restore a giant 36" saw from the late 1800's and this 20" seems like a baby next to that thing! In reality the 20" saw is not too much bigger than a run of the mill delta style 14" saw, the C shape keeps it compact. It came with a Brazilian (I think) rosewood ball on the tensioner also, which I think is pretty cool. And I also think it is geeky to think that is cool, but I still do.

Max, those purfs and the rosette look great.

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Brookline, MA.

Building a new neck for a 12-string electric, the original is too twisted to play or level out. Got the fretboard bound and epoxied to the neck. First time using non-wood binding, it sure was easy to bend. Busy time of year, not getting much time in the shop

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Max, Peter and Ken I guess I need to get in touch with Paul Murphy and plan another Blue Fish get together.

Fred

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Does anyone have a preference between routing individual channels in the top and laying them in as you build the rosette, vs, the above approach of building on a separate scrap as a single piece, then just routing a single channel?

I do the first (route each channel), but the above looks tempting. I'm wondering how you keep constant inward pressure on the rosette to keep "lumps" out of the lines?

Steve ,
Might be better to start another discussion on that where more would answer. I'd be interested to hear more on Spanish Rosette construction and methods as well.

Got another Selmer-type guitar ready for the finish guy. Claro walnut body, english walnut neck, cedar top, African ebony bindings/fingerboard/headplate.

The selmer looks great PZ. It would be nice to see more of it. I've always liked Claro and can't wait to see it under finish. I take it that it will have a tail-piece and a floating bridge? (never having built one myself...)

Who does your finishing? Nitro? Waterbase?

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Here's another pic. Colors are really washed out from the sunlight but you get the idea. It will have a floating bridge and tailpeice when done. I'm having Addam Stark in Santa Cruz, CA do the finishing in Nitro. Can't wait to play it...

Regards, Peter Z

Woohoo, after a trip to the hardware store for some new drill bits, and some work on my dad's drill press since my hand drill can't take such large bits, I now have the neck attached
Also got the tuner holes drilled, headstock partially cut out, and roughed out the heel.
The neck is attached by barrel bolts, with a countersunk washer followed by regular washer, to give it a bit of springyness in variable humidity.

It's really starting to look like a guitar now, with the fingerboard pinned on too. The fingerboard extension lies almost perfectly flat on the top, way better than I was expecting to do with all my eyeballing and approximations. However, I do need to angle the neck back to get about 1/8" higher at the bridge, so then it will have a bit of a gap, but probably just about right to avoid a "ski jump" after things stretch a bit with the strings on. The important thing is that it's nicely level with the top at the neck joint.

Next up is cutting off the sides of the neck shaft, and finishing the headstock.

No pictures, but got the windows installed in the shop and the gable end vents, as well as the eave vents. Getting close to the insulation point and then drywall. It's been slow going but I can't wait.

Burton: Very cool old Crescent. I've been wanting one for a long time too, but now I have a 19" Grizzly and just couldnt justify needing another. I do have a Crescent 12" jointer that I went through a big resto on. I'm sure you arlready know all about the OWWM site. Very helpful guys there.

Darrin

I finished up a little classical loosely based on FE 17.

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Mr Boone, that is Sweet!
Love the mitered purfling treatment on the backstrip, very elegant.

Exceptional, Stephen!!

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Getting ready to bind #2. Just need to level out the sides.

Looking good James!! I can't wait to see it under finish. The figure will really pop!


Steven, Great work on the FE17 copy. Really a nice instrument! Any chance that we can hear how it sounds?

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Your build looks real nice James.

Robbie, Ken, and Peter,

Thanks a bunch for you remarks. I might get to record with it a little but the client is coming today to pick it up and I have two mini-planes to make so I just don't know. I can tell you however that it does not sound like a small guitar. I am extremely happy with the volume and tone of this instrument. Torres deserves all the accolades he gets and more.The guitar is staying here in town so I may get to record with it later. It is so much smaller than standard that I have a hard time playing it.

Thanks go out to forum members Douglas Ingram and John Abercrombie for help with information regarding the build.

There sure is a lot of nice work shown here in the forum and that is a fact. It is very inspiring.

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You got that right, Stephen. What is the purfling on that guitar that you so nicely mitered?

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Steve,

I would be most interested in hearing what others' experiences are in building rosettes "in situ" on the guitar top versus making them separately and then install them in one piece. If you don't want to start a new thread I wiil.

Stephen,

Great looking guitar! How did your flamenco turn out?

Thanks,
Max

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I build them up on a bread board, but then route the whole channel and move them piece by piece to the top. I suppose I could glue them and move them, but never even thought of it. I just like to make sure I know what I'm doing before starting on the top. Since I re-topped #5, I might have to think on that, as I moved the rosette, and that part was pretty easy.

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I just opened one so more people can find the question.