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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:26 pm 
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So I've decided to build a black walnut/? 000-12 fret. The walnut is an ugly flat sawn set I bought for under $5. I'm not sure what to do for the top, I'm thinking maybe an unbookmatched adirondack top. For the neck I'm going to use maple, for the fingerboard and bridge I want to use persimmon (if I can find some).

Here's all I have done so far.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:56 pm 
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There is nothing ugly about that walnut. Did you join the back without tape or anything?

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:07 pm 
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I second that. I love walnut no matter how it's sawn.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:46 pm 
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Nah, its pretty ugly. I'm using the tape method, but the tape is on the other side of the back. This was the first back I have joined with my new veritas low angle smoothing plane and wow, what a difference. I didn't even need to sand the joint before gluing (btw, I used fish glue)


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oval soundhole wrote:
The walnut is an ugly flat sawn set I bought for under $5.



Where do you buy something like that?
Thanks.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:23 pm 
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Florentin wrote:
oval soundhole wrote:
The walnut is an ugly flat sawn set I bought for under $5.



Where do you buy something like that?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:25 pm 
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I love walnut as well , love the smell of it ...

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:36 pm 
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If I told you I'd have to kill you laughing6-hehe


come on... gaah

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florentin,

Almost any hardwood dealer will have stuff like this fairly cheap. It might not be in guitar set form.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:23 am 
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you've got to be kidding me!!!!

is this a hardwood dealer???

please say yes!!!

I'll tell you why afterwards...

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probably not though :roll:

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No, it was from a guitar place


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Brian,
You`re too concerned with it being ugly flat-sawn, dude.
Wait until you see it under a coat of shellac.
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There's no such thing as ugly walnut. The side set (what I can see of it) looks very nice, too. Your flat sawn set will be slightly more prone to expansion and contraction along its width than quarter sawn material, so be sure you do your cross grain gluing when the shop humidity is right. ...and if it were mine, I'd save the maple for another project and scrounge some more walnut for the neck. Keep us posted. I love walnut guitars.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:29 pm 
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Well I had a change of plans. I've decided to make a Pine/Walnut 0-14 fret instead of a 000-12 fret. This pine isn't just any pine though, I got it from Tom Theil, who got it from a really old carriage factory. This pine is many hundreds of years old, and Tom said Al Carruth had tested this wood and it's stiffness was comparable to some of the stiffer spruces he's tested. It has a great ring and should make a nice guitar.

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Cool looking pine Brian. If you hadn't said anything, I would have thought it was spruce.

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Did some more work last night and today:
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