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You ever rummaged through a construction dumpster looking for "Bracewood" to finish up a guitar you were working on at the time...

You have found "Brace wood Billets" on the side of the highway on the way to the dump....

You have ever Re-topped an Esteban guitar

You carry a crow bar and a stout hammer in case you happen upon a "Good" Pallet....

and yes... Just in case you were wondering....
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How did you manage to fit that in your glove box Don? :-)

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He has giant hands. . .

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If you have ever pulled a piece of the cedar paneling off of the wall of you own workshop to make a soundboard...

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1. You save the old electric organ from church just to get the wood out of it.
2. You take it apart, only to find it was veneered poplar.
3. You save the pieces anyway, figuring you may some day find a way to to make an instrument out of veneered poplar.

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Your father-in-law won't let you in the attic of his house, so you won't see the wood in the rafters.
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You've got hide glue in the fridge....

You find yourself checking out the WRC plank panels while grinding your coffee at Trader Joe's....
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You read this thread over lunch. Mmm... Salumi salami.

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You go shopping for household items with your wife and start to think about how you can use that clothes iron to remove a fingerboard, the crock pot to heat hide glue...

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you try to persuade a vicar that he doesn't need so many oak pews in the church, they'd be much better as guitars. wow7-eyes
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You pause and stare in unbelief every single time you walk past your parent's gigantic maple tree stump that they cut down before you were a luthier and marvel at the exquisite tight fiddle back around and through the entire tree (to the tune of 8 fiddles per inch) even down to the roots.

Must have been quite a fire.........ugh

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Mike Baker
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Spyder wrote:
2. You take it apart, only to find it was veneered poplar.
3. You save the pieces anyway, figuring you may some day find a way to to make an instrument out of veneered poplar.

The top on this is veneered poplar. I saved it for a year and a half.

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I think it's lovely, and will make a pretty nice guitar.

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Mike Baker wrote:
Spyder wrote:
2. You take it apart, only to find it was veneered poplar.
3. You save the pieces anyway, figuring you may some day find a way to to make an instrument out of veneered poplar.

The top on this is veneered poplar. I saved it for a year and a half.

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I think it's lovely, and will make a pretty nice guitar.


bliss JACKPOT!!!!! bliss

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Nick Royle wrote:
you try to persuade a vicar that he doesn't need so many oak pews in the church, they'd be much better as guitars. wow7-eyes



LOL My friend John Cronin has been making a series of Oak Pew Guitars

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you try to persuade a vicar that he doesn't need so many oak pews in the church, they'd be much better as guitars. wow7-eyes



LOL My friend John Cronin has been making a series of Oak Pew Guitars


I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was starting to feel guilty for staring at the pews in my church...
NOT.

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Anyone ever use driftwood? This piece just made me wonder...


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bliss JACKPOT!!!!! bliss


That's what I thought when I sanded this down...

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...and saw this.

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I've also built a guitar out of a cutting board and a P bass from an antique pine table.
I'm always looking for wood I can "repurpose". Yeah, I'm a hack guitar builder, and loving it!

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you look at the 1 3/4 inch thick door to your state senators office in the state capital building and wonder how many guitars you could build with that 140 year old mahogany?

cecil



If you look at same Door and wonder if it is REALLY Mahogany and if he is in Compliance with Cites/lacey



Oh, it's solid wood alright. Those rules are for the rest of us.

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Periodically you will go through your wood stash just for the sake of admiring the different pieces - tapping, caressing, flexing, smelling...

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If you Watch Tommy Emmanuel Play and Cant hear the music over the voice in your head screaming about how he abuses that guitar !

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klooker wrote:
Periodically you will go through your wood stash just for the sake of admiring the different pieces - tapping, caressing, flexing, smelling...

Kevin Looker


[:Y:] This - Glad I am not the one :lol:
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Mike Baker wrote:
D. Ramsey wrote:
Nick Royle wrote:
you try to persuade a vicar that he doesn't need so many oak pews in the church, they'd be much better as guitars. wow7-eyes



LOL My friend John Cronin has been making a series of Oak Pew Guitars


I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was starting to feel guilty for staring at the pews in my church...
NOT.


Haha!

Those guitars are lovely, I may just have to accidentally email them to him! :P
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Frank Cousins wrote:
klooker wrote:
Periodically you will go through your wood stash just for the sake of admiring the different pieces - tapping, caressing, flexing, smelling...

Kevin Looker


[:Y:] This - Glad I am not the one :lol:


Posts like that make me want to sing the "I don't have a wood stash blues".
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Nick Royle wrote:
Frank Cousins wrote:
klooker wrote:
Periodically you will go through your wood stash just for the sake of admiring the different pieces - tapping, caressing, flexing, smelling...

Kevin Looker


[:Y:] This - Glad I am not the one :lol:


Posts like that make me want to sing the "I don't have a wood stash blues".

Me too... :(

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Posts like that make me want to sing the "I don't have a wood stash blues".




It's been a tricky few years of collecting the odd sets and sneaking the expenditure past Mrs C.... Although about to get found out as need to add it to the insurance inventory! May have to use the old trick ' well it's worth that now, but it was soooo much cheaper when I bought it... Great investment really, honestly honey!' :D


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