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Hey, let's not be talking about scattering your ashes just yet!!!
But is there really an El Paso, Wisconsin? That just don't sound right....

Anyway, yet another oak guitar:



We were asked to finish this one natural. At first I was skeptical, but afterwards I really came to like the look. American Holly bindings, with a shop-made marquetry as center inlay.

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

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Those cat, dog mugs are made by her friend. She works with 3 potters together. Those mugs are great we have a few of the cat ones ourselves. But to answer your question, I think she takes custom orders. She probably has some leftover from the last sale too. So just message me if interested.

You did this all wrong. You are supposed to get your guitar in the background of a pottery picture. Then float that picture around the pottery fora. You'll have more sales than you can handle

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

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

I use a lot of local scavenged woods. There are so many species of beautiful wood here in the SF Bay Area it's almost unlimited what you can scavange with a case of beer an a friendly tree service.

Black Acacia Concert


Sycamore Toped Tenor


Silver Acacia Tenor



Myrtle Tenor

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Michael F Smith
Goat Rock Ukulele
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What, Steve? You've never heard of that tune "Down in the west Wisconsin town of El Paso, I met a gal of trout fishing fame"...
Nice Larsonesque prufling BTW!

Next time for sure

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I'm loving this thread. That natural oak finish does indeed look great. Golden blonde and beautiful.

The uke's too, nice work!

Fresh off the press, here's a claro walnut & western red cedar concert:

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Nice, Chris. That one really speaks to me.


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you guys are killin' me...

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Steve Sollod (pronounced sorta like "Solid")
www.swiftcreekguitars.com

I doubt if David Newton would be surprised by this. It's a pine top from an old shelf board (from the 70% off bin @ Home Depot) with Sabine River Cypress drug out of the river by me and cedar binding from a log given to me from Sister-In-Law. A Southeast Texas redneck special. At last count I had about $100 invested but I might put a pickup in it, haven't decided that yet. It's from a plan for a Gibson L-00 I got off a website that only seems to offer plans in French with metric dimensions. It was fun building it anyway. Oh yea, I was going to ask if there's a reason you don't see guitars with tops which show runnout like I built into this one?

Must have deleted the first pic. Now you know why I don't participate more.

I'm thoroughly impressed by all the instruments posted in this thread. It appears the luthery and photography gene are closely linked in their dna. I just finished this one. It's an OM made with local redwood top tonewood from LMI, and local northern Ca. walnut back and sides sourced from Bruce Sexauers stash. Bloodwood binding and trim, inc. the rosette. My iPad is my best camera.




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Brad Hall
Mystic Dawg Guitars

Awesome! I'm making a parlor with a pine top from the 70% off bin at HD right now. It was an 8 foot 1x12 that only had enough decent wood for 1 parlor top. But, at $1.80 it was worth taking a chance on it.




BTW, nice looking guitars!

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

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

Brad, those bloodwood accents are the nicest I've seen! Is it unusually red? Or perhaps the Walnut and Redwood are a good contrast. Is there a reason you didn't follow all the way around the headstock front?

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Pat

The bloodwood is very red. Aptly named. I considered running it around the headstock, but I would have never been able to bend that tight of a radius . I had just over a 50% success rate bending the binding. It snaps very easy. Even thin strips.

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Brad Hall
Mystic Dawg Guitars

Bloodwood is a pita to bend I/ve tried it for a rosette an broke at least 3 it needs to be vy thin under 2mm 3/32 ,and lots of water and heat

Brad and Ernie - Maybe this will help if you try bending bloodwood binding in a tight radius in the future. Last week, I bent bloodwood binding for the sound hole binding of the guitar I'm building now. The binding was 0.080" thick and I bent it into a circle with a radius of 1 5/8". I sprayed it with Supersoft and let it sit overnight. It bent very easily on the hot pipe the next day. I sprayed it with water as needed while bending it.

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

I'm really enjoying all the domestic/local wood guitars guys!
This is the finished Yellow Pine Size-1 guitar.
Also the start of a 0-size of some sort of Pine or Fir that a friend gave me, a nice close-grained board, just enough for a back and sides, so I used a low-grade Red Spruce top, and a green Poplar neck. Gotta keep it in perspective.

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Put that neck out for a suntan after you carve it, it will look nice.

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

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

I try to use as much local wood as possible. Unfortunately that means I'm pretty much stuck with using koa. Maybe a little pheasant wood like the trim on this guitar. I came to Hawaii over 35 years ago with 10 nice sets of Indian, but I still have 8 of those. Local players only want local woods.

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“ The meaning of life is to find your gift and the purpose of life is to give it away” Pablo Picasso

I think there may be worse things. Beautiful guitar.

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

Oh, just rub it in why don't you ? ! ! !



Koa, my favorite wood... sure wish it was local to me!

We can't even find scraps of wood like that here on the mainland...

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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."

Poor Bob my heart goes out to you, being only stuck with Koa...

Here is one that I finished recently. All I have handy is this video I hope you can see it.
https://youtu.be/WCQiatMqrEs

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Alain
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Looks and sounds great Alain.