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johnparchem
PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:39 pm 
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Here is a guitar I have been working on for a bit. It is my first guitar after two eye surgeries to get decent vision in one of my eyes. I took off building for nearly a year. Now my vision is pretty good and I am enjoying my time in the shop. Here is the guitar I just strung up. It has great tone. Once I tune the back down a bit I will be at 95 Hz Sound hole, 180 Hz top with the back some where between 226 and 240 Hz. I just have a to spec setup (no on guitar adjustments.} I will wait a week for the guitar to settle in and do all of the fine setup.

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Beautiful!
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Gorgeous! Looking forward to seeing it, unless it's headed off to a new home right away.

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Nice! Even though those books came out a at least a decade ago, I still haven’t had time to make one…
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Thanks guys

Here with video very short


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Hi John,

Not seeing a video link…
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johnparchem
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meddlingfool wrote:
Hi John,

Not seeing a video link…


Weird the embedded youtube feature stopped on the forum

I have also included as a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8QkoEhlm-M


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Looks and sounds great John! Nice work.

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Sounds great!
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That's great John, I have my first falcate braced guitar almost done, should have strings on it next week.
Hope it comes out half as good as yours!

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Sounds good! I built a falcate braced dred about 7 years ago and it came out good. Had a different sound than my X braced guitars, but it was a good sound. It didn’t last long and found a new owner quickly.


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She's a beaut!

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