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These are some pictures of my first made from scratch guitar. After making 5 kit instruments, classical, steel string, electric and 2 violins I took an intermediate guitarmaking class with Rick Davis at Sound Guitar workshop. I made this is O sized parlor guitar in his class for my daughter. It has Hawaiian Koa back and sides and a western redwood top (bought from Lance on this site last year). I pore filled the back, sides and neck with zpoxy (thanks to Todd’s youtube video). And sprayed the guitar with EM6000. The fret board inlays came from Andy DePaule, I made the hawk and moon on the peghead.
I cannot say enough about the opportunity to work with a professional luthier. Working with Rick exceeded all my expectations for the class. I have two new guitars in progress at home we will see how I do.

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Simply gorgeous!

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

That is really nice!

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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.

Looks really good to me! Nice job.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Great looking! Now it makes me want to build a O.
KB

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How did you do that?

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I love it John! And it made my day to see your daughter playing it.

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Thanks for looking! I got a good start on my next guitar this weekend also I had dinner with a photographer friend last night and we took these pictures.

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Fantastic. Love the color of the top.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

John did a great job on this guitar and was fun to have in the shop while we worked on it! The 0 size is one of my personal favorites and I was happy to have a student who wanted to make one. John's build-from-scratch class was interesting: two students making very different guitars made with very similar woods. I've heard the one and look forward to having both of them together for comparison.

fabulous. That's was a big milestone for me too, but I was on my own, and made so many mistakes it became a sort of black comedy. Congratulations. I gave my third one to my 12 year old niece, who recently astonished me with a video of her playing lead guitar in a rock band. She was definitely the standout star. These things are worth hanging around to witness.

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from "Your Owner's Manual" by Burt Hotchkiss.