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I'm making an ukulele, I also happened across some 48 x 1 1/2 x 3/8 inch spruce lathe pieces that were nicely quartered. Feeling inspired by Filippo and Todd's OM in the recent challenge, I did this:
Sorry for the crappy cell phone shot.

I haven't untapped and cleaned it up yet so we will see how obvious it is, I may not use it.

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

Cool Bryan! I guess it'll all come down to runout on that. If there was a lot of runout it'll probably be pretty obvious but it may look cool that way too. Hmmm wonder what a top made of Koa, spruce, and mahogany strips would sound like.......

Wow... looks like a workbench top.

I also got a uke going with a top that was found on the side of the street... looks like cedar or cypress.

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Nah, I slip matched the pieces so the runnout will be the same. Then I resawed, so the runnout will show from left half to right half. I thought about not bookmatching so that the runnout didn't show at all, but I think runnout showing side to side will be kind of cool and take your eye away from the 8 piece top.

Tai, I can't wait to see it.

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

The project has been rather slow, and I got the top attached to the sides with the soundhole/rosette done... just didn't take any picture because this is a low priority project, due to lack of funds and other more important things to do... The top was some plank of wood lying on the side of the street, and the back is just padauk I resawn ages ago. It just so happens that they're nicely quartered and had minimal runout. It's not a bookmatch because the pieces were not thick enough, so I just cut the board in half (lengthwise) and joined it...

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

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You could just print out a conversion table for the small range of thicknesses involved and keep it beside your new bench.
Saves damaging brain cells...

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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.

I took a little break from acoustics to whip up a 35" scale length bass neck.

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Brad
Avon, OH

Sadly, no guitar work, as I'm about to build a small RH-controlled room, but am working on a jewelry box for my daughter's 18th, which, at my current pace ought to see it done by Christmas(her 18th b'day is/was Feb 24th.... )

Nick, that box is beautiful...is it snakewood?

Tiger Myrtle, looks like.

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Yummy

No guitars here either, but staying busy.

A pair of shaves to help build guitars...






Beautiful work everyone!

_Mike

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_Mike Tracz
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Tiger Myrtle it is. My wife caught sight of my small and precious stash of TM, and decided that that was just the thing for Em's jewelry box...... After several "discussions", I caved.....

Since they are guitar timbers, I lined it with WRC, so it'll smell nice, and then bound it with some Pearl Celluloid I had, and am deciding on how to treat the bottom, which has a cedar base at the moment, but may change.......

Then, finish kitting up the inside with some compartments and a lift-out, with dark blue(Em's favourite colour) velvet, and it's all done.....

Like I said, Christmas, probably.....

Thanks for the kind words.....

Love the shaves....

What I like about those is that they would work for me too! Just turn 'em upside down!

Awesome guitar Filippo!

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Aviation stuff and shop planning. I have enough room to can make a proper station for every guitar building operation but double or triple duty stations will allow for more storage. Thinking....thinking.

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StuMusic

Hi All

I know I'm a week late - just delivered a slope shouldered Dred: Myrtle wood (B&S), curly Redwood top.

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Beautiful, Michael! Very pretty rosette and bound sound hole, and I like the way the wooden pick guard ties the top and back/sides together. How about a picture of the headstock?

Thanks Beth, Picture of headstock below:

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Just working on the design of an 'Art Deco' trimmed Mid-jumbo. Now that I have the design elements all drawn up am not so sure that it's not to much of a good thing.

I have designed a rosette and head stock inlays to go along with it but I'm not sure if I should go for it. It will be a lot of work and maybe not look as good as I hoped, as in overdone.

Any opinions?

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Joe Beaver
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I like #1 for Art Deco.

Alex

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Thanks Alex. It should look nice with the right material

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Joe Beaver
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Joe, are you thinking about inlaying each of those as shown? If so, it seems to mix different styles and I agree with your thinking that it might be too much. If you're going to pick just one, I agree with Alex that the image on first position looks the most "Art Deco".

And Michael, the headstock is very smooth and professional looking. Thanks for adding the picture!

So how do you do such complex inlay and have it look perfect? I can see how easy it is to do it CNC but doing it with manual routers that can ruin things in seconds...

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Cat-gut strings are made from kitten guts, stretched out to near breaking point and then hardened with grue saliva. As a result these give a feeling of Pain and anguish whenever played, and often end up playing themselves backwards as part of satanic rituals.

Typhoon Guitars
http://www.typhoon-guitars.com

mtracz are you making those shaves? they are a work of art!!

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Beth, You might be right. I'll have to really give it some consideration before I commit to it.

Fu, it is slow but if you are carefull, not all that difficult, if you are installing it in ebony. Light wood is much more trying. You just have to carefully cut the pieces, assemble them and then slowly route it out.

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Joe Beaver
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