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Well, here's a little terz that I started last year. Put it aside for about a year, been dinkin' around on it for a month. It's koa from Doug Kleist, Madagascar RW bindings, Lutz from BobC, I think, Martin neck off ebay. That was a weird one - nearly complete, with fretboard, but no truss rod, so I ordered a TR from Martin, shortened it and tapped it in. All FP, with a lot of great advice from Michael Payne (thanks, Michael!). FB is EIR, bridge is BRW. I had a much smaller BRW bridge, but the sound was just a bit to tinkly, so I added mass with this one, sweetened it up some. This one is for the kids, or my daughter, if I ever get around to building a "boy's" guitar for my son. Prolly be my first electric!
















Thanks for looking!

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

Very nice! I love a good Terz...

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

That is a cool little Terz Pat.
Great job!

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

Just Beautiful!!!!!
Congrats!!

Pat my friend you have done it again - this is one very cool little guitar!!!

And in your usual style the attention to detail is superb.

The shine of the FP is excellent as well.

I am sure that your daughter is going to be very, very pleased and you my friend should be very, very proud!

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Ann Arbor Guitars

Nice!     

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Hey Pat,

That is a cool little guitar. I have some zircote glued up for one right now! It will be for my son. So thanks for posting so I can get a sense of scale! I love that Koa, even without flame it it looks warm and wonderful!

Shane

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Canada

Pat,

That's a lovely little guitar - the fp finish looks sumptious!

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Beautiful combination of woods and execution. the head stock inlay is great! You have really done a fine job and I don't even know for sure what a terz is.

John

Thanks for the compliments, everybody! It was really an educational and rewarding project. But then aren't they all?

John, terz is German (one of about three words I know in German) for third. It's a 21.35" scale and is tuned a minor third higher.

I chose the anthurium inlay design because they were one of my mother's favorite flowers.

My thanks again to the OLF. Looking forward to posting the next one when it's done, an EIR dread that will be donated to my daughter's school's annual fundraising auction.

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

Beautiful in spades, Pat!!! Having built 2 small ones myself, I love these little guitars. The design and execution is spot on...and I really love your FP results...nice!

Do you have any closeup shots of the top with the rosette and top purfling detail?

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

Pat, great job, nice photos too.

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JJ,

Here you go. I did this rosette a year ago. It was my first, so it's a little rough. The purfling came from LMI.

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com