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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 8:50 am 
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Finally got the shop moved to the point where i can start building again. Took over the large side of my basement from my wife! Went from 7'x10' to 13'x20". Took me a while to figure out where to put everything. Then I started running out of room...How'd I ever work in my old shop! Can you ever have enough space?

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Getting started on a build for a friend. She's fairly short and has really small hands so I'm going with short scale. She wanted a takamine shape so I found a straight on shot online, rescaled it for short scale with Big Print and made templates. It'll be my first acoustic without an actual plan. Highly confident I can pull it off successfully. It'll be a pretty simple guitar. EIR/Sitka 14 fret SJ/Grand Concert shape with venetian cutaway. Bindings will be curly maple with ebony FB and bridge. Hopefully have some in progress pics soon.


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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 12:02 pm 
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You guys are so inspiring. Thanks for the great ideas, especially on the rosettes!

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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 1:20 pm 
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verhoevenc wrote:
Not much got done on my part in the shop besides some finish sanding getting ready for the next round of coats. But I did find a rotting dead body in a lake in Laurel MD. Ruined me some cops' Sunday.
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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 2:32 pm 
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k...that's one dead body....but after the third one you're officially the kiss of death.

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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 6:38 pm 
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To Douglas Ingram:

Wow! A wineglass-shaped stern. Arguably the most beautiful of sterns on a lap strake boat. Is she a Whitehall? I am thunderstruck. I thought I might be the only one here who had ever dabbled in wooden boats. Obviously I was wrong. A lot of you guys have probably done so. And you other folks have posted plenty here that inspires me, too. I just never expected to see a laid up lap strake wooden hull in this forum.

As for me, I am making a Longworth lathe chuck, so I can spin my tenor banjo rim and true it up. I know....BANJO?!!! Yes, I am building a tenor from scratch. And I can't even play one yet. But I figure I can give it the "Chicago" tuning and use my jazz guitar chords on it, and use it on a few of the old tunes that my band always plays. It'll also be a fine instrument to practice some decorative techniques.

No pics yet, but I'll post some when she's closer.

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PostPosted: Thu May 19, 2011 3:30 pm 
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Looks like some great work out there right now. I didn't get anything done on guitars, but I did manage to make a smallish mitre plane from a sheet of metal I found.


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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2011 7:11 am 
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Amazing plane Andrew!

I've been planning one of those for years now... Did you take any photos along the way?

Thanks for sharing!!!

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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2011 10:14 am 
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Thanks Mike. I didn't get any good pics of it while I was building it. I'm planning another one soon though, so I'll post a tut when I'm building it if you'd like. It is much easier than it looks. This one was my first try at metalworking and I didn't have any plans to go by, just some pics of mitre planes that I liked. It ended up taking all of the weekend, but the next will go much faster now that I know what I'm doing.


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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2011 11:38 am 
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As always, beautiful work in progress everywhere!
I haven't made any sawdust in a month, now. My father-in-law & my mother both had major surgery last month & my wife & I needed to spend time with them during their recovery.
We made it back home yesterday & (after a bit of R&R) I'm eager to get back to work.
But first... Must get the yard work done. The lawn is looking like a hay field & the garden tractor just broke a belt. Sigh...
Wonderful to see all the great work going on here & I hope to catch up soon.
Cheers y'all!


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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2011 12:01 pm 
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I'm finally getting around to making more progress on my BRW/Adi OM. it will be my #4.

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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2011 2:41 pm 
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Really poor taste there Chris. Imagine how the relatives might feel if they see that photo online.


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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2011 6:36 pm 
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I thought it was a good pic.

Dead guy in the lake...not smiling.

Live guy smiling.

Not poor taste....life affirming.

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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2011 7:37 pm 
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Starting the nitro finish on an OLF-MJ I've been working on. Everything's done except the final finish
on body and neck, bridge, and final body tuning after assembly. Wood is Sitka and Goncalo Alves from
Bob C, with cocobolo bindings, fretboard, and bridge. Back and top tap tones are both high, but I'll be
able to bring them down where I want them that way. Doing the finish in my "big as all outdoors" spray
booth. Nice day for it- no bugs... bliss


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