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violinvic
 Post subject: Just strung it up.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 2:32 pm 
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I just finished this one. This is an OM with cherry back and sides and a redwood top. The neck is cherry and maple with a rosewood fingerboard, bridge and headplate. Binding is curly maple and bone nut, saddle and bridgepins. I enjoyed working on this one since the cherry came out of the woods on our property and the maple came from an Amish sawmill here in Reading, MI. Pals, Vic.


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Alex Kleon
 Post subject: Re: Just strung it up.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 2:47 pm 
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Very nice, Vic! The cherry and redwood look great. What is the sound like?

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Mike Baker
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Nice! I need a decent bandsaw ao I can build from local woods. Someday.
How does cherry bend? I imagine it scorches/burns easily?

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Really nice, really classy looking. Absolutely LOVE working with cherry - like butter. What's the beautiful rosette?

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Robbie_McD
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Always a magical moment when you first hear it's voice isn't it?
Very cool to be using local woods.
I wonder if poplar is a good tonewood... :-)

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Mike Baker
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Robbie_McD wrote:
I wonder if poplar is a good tonewood... :-)

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I don' know about acoustic guitars, but poplar works quite well in electric guitars. One of my favorite electric woods when using an opaque finish. And I think that's part of the reason you don't see it used in acoustics. It doesn't have a particularly attractive grain, and a lot of it is prone to green mineral streaks, which most do not like.
Add to that the fact that, although technically a hardwood, it can be rather soft, and I've run into a lot of spongey/pithy examples as well.

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Hi all, and thank you for the nice comments. I am real happy with the sound of this one. The rosette is segmented curly maple with .020" black fiber between the segments and B/W/B purfling rings. Pals, Vic.
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Very beautiful, I'm a big fan of cherry myself and it looks great writ that top
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Matt Bouchie
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Very nice!

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