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Author:  SnowManSnow [ Tue Oct 15, 2019 7:43 pm ]
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Pretty little 28ish Gibson L-1 body shape.
Spruce
Sapelle
Rosewood
Sounds really nice imo and plays great for the first setup.
Tomorrow or the next day I’ll recheck and readjust things:)
My workmanship isn’t NEAR what it is with some of you guys but I hope to at least catch a glimpse of it one day:) this is #14:)
Here are some pics of course!!!
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Author:  sdsollod [ Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:07 pm ]
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Looks great Snow! Thanks for sharing.

Author:  Colin North [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 2:00 am ]
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Sweet looking guitar, nicely done.

Author:  meddlingfool [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 2:09 am ]
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You're lightyears ahead of where I was at #14 even with a daily backdrop, so just jeep plugging away...

Author:  SnowManSnow [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:35 am ]
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meddlingfool wrote:
You're lightyears ahead of where I was at #14 even with a daily backdrop, so just jeep plugging away...

I don’t know man.... guitar pics are like instagram pics... filters help haha
:)
However it does play good:) I’m finally reaching a beginners competency of setup (which I dreaded before)
I made some stupid mistakes in this one (which I can say for every one ha) but at least they weren’t the same stupid mistakes!


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Author:  meddlingfool [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:40 am ]
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If you knew the near fatal error on the redwood SJ you'd have a laugh...

Author:  SnowManSnow [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:25 am ]
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meddlingfool wrote:
If you knew the near fatal error on the redwood SJ you'd have a laugh...

Oh I’d NEVER laugh! Ha
Glad you broke out the guitar defibs


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Author:  Hesh [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:32 am ]
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Beautiful, just right on the bling while retaining the vib of a working musicians primary ax. You knocked it out of the park my friend.

Author:  Bryan Bear [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:44 am ]
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looks nice!

Author:  SnowManSnow [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:11 am ]
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Hesh wrote:
Beautiful, just right on the bling while retaining the vib of a working musicians primary ax. You knocked it out of the park my friend.

Way too kind. But thanks. Hope you’re feeling better!


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Author:  bionta [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:13 am ]
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Beautiful!

All things are relative, I guess. I’m working hard to attain something close to your level of workmanship. It looks great.

Author:  jfmckenna [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:11 am ]
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Looks good Snow. Is that some sort of optical illusion on the end graft in that pic or did you do something creative there?

Author:  SnowManSnow [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:15 am ]
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jfmckenna wrote:
Looks good Snow. Is that some sort of optical illusion on the end graft in that pic or did you do something creative there?

So the end graft is 2 wide. Rosewood on The outside and a strip of the back in the middle. The lower bout is so round that I had trouble bending a wedge to the shape so I had to create strips, like hardwood flooring, to gently follow the curve.
The reason why is because one of my sides was cut too short to carry ya the middle of the block! (Who did that?!?!), so I had to cover the gap w a wider strip:/ let’s call it a feature:)


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Author:  jfmckenna [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:27 am ]
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That's the way to pull it off ;)

Author:  Quine [ Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:03 pm ]
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Nice work. I've made a couple of that L1 shape. Very nice sounding guitars

Author:  A.Hix [ Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:56 am ]
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Very nice! That is one of my favorite body shapes, too!

Author:  SnowManSnow [ Thu Oct 17, 2019 10:41 am ]
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A.Hix wrote:
Very nice! That is one of my favorite body shapes, too!

Aaron!!!! This is one of your sets:) Actually;) fantastic wood. It can get a little tricky to work because of the grain, but overall really a great set!!!
—- I’m a neighbor over in Rome btw


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Author:  SnowManSnow [ Thu Oct 17, 2019 10:42 am ]
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Quine wrote:
Nice work. I've made a couple of that L1 shape. Very nice sounding guitars

I ended up w what I describe as a small dred sound. Interesting that it sounds as full as it does (not loud)... just nice and round. I was pleased


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