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Ziegenfuss
PostPosted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:38 am 
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I finally got this guitar done - ready to go out the door this weekend. It really is a very nice sounding guitar. I am very proud of it - as it presented many challenges along the way toward completion.

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Eric Hoffer
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Absolutely beautiful guitar! What is the nut made out of?
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Darryl Young
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Beautiful! The nut stood out to me as well.......so look forward to reading what it is made from.

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Bill Greene
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Drop dead gorgeous...now that is art. Just exquisite. [:Y:]

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Mark A Thorpe
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Good job! Very nice.
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Great looking guitar, Stephen. That's fine work. Did you do the inlay too?

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Thanks guys.

I bought the inlay from Andy - it is a peg head inlay that just used on the FB.

When I first started building guitars, I bought about 9" of fossilized walrus oosik for a great deal, and have gotten a great number of nuts out of that stock...so you are looking at a little piece of fossilized walrus penis. All jokes aside, it is a beautiful material.

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Tim L
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Stephen,

I still have some Oosik laying around also, although there were no nuts with it. laughing6-hehe

Nice looking guitar. Is the binding Bloodwood, or offcuts from the sides?

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Wow, that is just beautiful! Thanks for sharing. What an inspiration!

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Very nice Stephen .. a real looker ....

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Three comments:
You have every reason to be proud of this instrument!
A lot of us have every reason to be envious!
The new owner has every reason to be ecstatic!

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Steve Kinnaird
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Beautiful work. What's the finish?

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Mike Collins
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NICE WORK
Looks killer!
Nice design work also.
I love the color match !
Mike [:Y:]

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Very nice workmanship, very artistic, I like it very much, good choice of materials.
It may be just the way it shows in the picture but it looks as though that beatiful nut could use the top filed down, some of the strings look a little deep.
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That's great. Lots of detail but it all seems to flow/belong. Lots of wow factor without being too much/too busy. The walrus oosik is very cool.

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Wow, now that is a truly beautiful and very esthetic guitar. Congratulations. [clap]

Great, now I have to find a way to get some walrus oosik,,, 8-)
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Christoph wrote:
Wow, now that is a truly beautiful and very esthetic guitar. Congratulations. [clap]

Great, now I have to find a way to get some walrus oosik,,, 8-)


Google it. First thing that popped up for me was a Canadian website that sells it.

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Beautiful contemporary guitar Stephen! [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [:Y:]
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Simply lovely, the harmony in the color palette makes it for me. Subtle yet makes yours eyes looking for more. Bravo. T
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That really is beautiful. Really nice choices of materials. Gotta get some of that nut material.

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Thanks guys:

Sometimes it has been said that the "pat on your back" side of this forum is what makes it unprofessional. But having been a part of this forum for my massive 3 year building career - each time I get something done and can post it, I am always encouraged to get closer to the final vision with the next build - always encouraged to build, period. That is the type of community I love being a part of - so thank you guys.

After looking at the nut slot, it is normally close to what I do, where the 3 large diameter strings are 0.5-0.75 deep in the nut, and the the thinner diameter strings are 100% covered. If this is not optimum, I would love to hear what I should be doing, because that is just what I have always done?

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Stephen, you have been busy! Very fine looking instrument.

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Mark Groza
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Real Nice looking guitar! Very good color matches as well. As far as the string dept in the nut, I usually put all the strings half way down but what you did should be ok too.Great Job! [:Y:]
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All the elements really do work very nicely together. Very Sweeeeeeeeet [clap]

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dayum ... that is 1 nice looking guitar.

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