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I was playing my 1st built guitar this morning and thought about what I had learned the last 6 years and 10 guitars. I still love my 1st and play it as much as any other I have. I think a great thread would be showing off where we started.

Here are some pictures of #1 a Martin OM cutaway kit, lets see some other members 1st guitars.











Fred

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Ohmygosh Fred. Even your first was beautiful!
I don't have any of my old work to show, but it wasn't as nice as that!

I love this thread already.

I don't have pictures currently of my very first (maybe I can dig some up later). But here is my second: An all walnut ES cutaway with maple binding and ziricote appointments. I built this one under the watchful eye of Sergei de Jonge.

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Classical:

650 Scale
Zebrawood/German Spruce
HOG neck
BRW fingerboard
BRW bridge
BRW bindings

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

My first? Heck, I sold that back in the late 70's.....
Don't even have any pictures of it anymore.

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"Act your age, not your shoe size" - Prince

Here is mine, Italian spruce/cypress, Torres style, 2007.

Far from being a show piece, and made on a haste (less than 2months) but the important things like good playing setup and decent sound are all there so I very much love it and play it very often. Here is a clip of it (that's not me playing) in the white, carbon strings.

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Build log

You can say it......I haven't changed a bit!....................................(NOT)

I found the pics of my first. It may be compare to "the log"- heavy, bulky... But hey, I built with no help, after reading Benedetto's book, and I was 18, what more can I say.

It had about as many beginner mistakes as you can pack into a build, but I learned a ton. So it wasn't a complete waste.

Maple back/side (maple back is a laminate that I got from stew mac)
2x10 pine from home depot
maple neck
Wenge headstock back/front
Macassar ebony bridge, tailpiece, pickguard
I didn't understand fretting and couldn't get the rid of the buzzes, so I pulled the frets and inlayed maple lines. So, yes, it is a fretlesss archtop.

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This is my first - a sweet little spruce-top classical:

Well I'm working on my first.....but Chris I'm glad to say that I have your number 008....you've come along way fast my friend...I'm loving her more every day.

Marc

This is the only one I have finished so far but Im very happy with it. Needs a new saddle as the intonation on both E's sometimes annoys me but pretty close...

cocobolo
red spruce
koa bindings
madagascar bridge
padauk and crushed turquoise rosette

A parlor anno 2000, and yup, its a real clunker.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

A Triple 000 with a spanish heel construction in 1997. Besides playing it also protects against burglars.




Best regards,


Edzard