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Finally wired and put together a temperature controller with a fancy rosewood enclosure. I should have bought or built one of these years ago.

Me too! I've had the parts sitting in the shop for about two years now, same controller too. But I don't think I can spring for the rosewood enclosure.

Nothing guitar related going on here, but I am working on a pinewood derby car with my son. It is going to be the coolest car at the event, in my humble opinion.

The painting is a bit sloppy but the kid is 6. Give him a break, ok?

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Ha, the cheapest I could find a good metal/plastic enclosure was about $30 so I made it with scraps. Plus it saved a step... with wood there's no need to ground the case!

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Nice one, Todd, Otis is one heck of an Artist!!!

I wouldn't mind one as well! Thanks. He is pretty proud of it. I am more proud of it. Obviously, I did the major shaping since 6 year olds and dremels don't mix well. The cowl is made of quarter sawn cedar from Mario DaCosta. It was an off cut from a larger block. The rest of the wood is pine. It taps at a G# right now, but it still needs to be hollowed out a bit as it is currently over the 5 oz limit. We went with TiteBond original to glue on the fenders and cowl because my son was not comfortable with the short open time of HHG, but didn't want to wait 24 hours for fish glue to set up before he could work on it.

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Watching paint dry.......Had a run of really nice weather, and had these three ready.
1. One of my builds from the new builder challenge
2. Mango Dread w/cut away
3. Tele style thinline for me

Also started this one for a mate 12-string round shoulder dread in Lutz and Bubinga....

Saaaweeet!

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Nice work everyone. Tons of good stuff going on in this thread.

Tony I'm sure your son cant wait till race day. That is a beauty.

I've been trying to tolex a couple of Champ amp cabinets I built. This is my first time working with tolex and it is going well, but the entire time I'm doing it, I feel like I'm going to goof up the look of the whole thing. It sort of reminds me of finishing my first guitar.





I didn't get as much done as I had hoped. It always takes me longer than I plan to pull something off. I still have the tops and the back panels to cover. They are almost done. I'm going in for ear surgery on Thursday, so I'm not sure how long it will be before I can put the respirator back on to work with the glue again. We'll see how that goes. I'll may have to shift gears and start working on a different project for a while.

Amazing work everyone!
I am making progress on my Ziricote/Lutz project:

I don't want to start a big glue debate here, but I explained all of the pros and cons of HHG vs Titebond to my son, but he simply stared at me with a blank expression and then told me that farting was funny but smelly. Which I of course, took to mean that he was not comfortable with the shorter open time of HHG.
Thanks for the compliments. Next to all of the killer guitars in this thread, my little pinewood derby car seems like child's play...which I suppose it actually is.

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Slow and steady progress on a Padauk and Carolina Red Spruce fanned-fret baritone. Solid linings are so much more work than kerfed, but I feel it's worth the effort in the added rigidity, strength, and responsiveness. Side reinforcements extend the width of the sides and are locked in place by the inner lamination.


Ken Jones
Mountain Song Guitars

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