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Looks great Alain, I have to agree with what everyone else has said.

Cheers

Kim

Absolutely stunning! great job!

The EIR / koa combo is one of my favorites as well. The FP looks great so far, this will be a great looking guitar!

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Thanks for all your kind words, guys!

I've got a few more sessions on there now... I should be stringing her up soon! Hooray!

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

Wow!! That looks great!!
I would like to see the finished french polish job also. Did you leave it right off the pad or have you done some hand buffing with a glaze of some kind??

Hi Hesh... She's not quite done yet... I'll try laying down as many coats as I can untill next Monday... You know me and my compulsive behavior!!!

I'll try to get some good outside pics for sure!

Colby, these pics were taken when I was just starting to FP. Straight off the pad no buffing done yet. I found that EIR takes to FP like mad...

On my first I hand buffed with a silicone free compound (the name escapes me at the moment). I was very very pleased with the results...

Thanks again...

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[QUOTE=Hesh1956] Al if you want I can take some shots of your baby under the big light next Saturday? That goes for every one going to the Fort Erie bash too.[/QUOTE]

Sounds good to me, my friend! I'll have a fresh pair of batteries in my camera too!

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

Thanks Hesh, really kind of you!

Al, could ya FP my guitar by next monday dude? I'm scared of showin' my finish to Hesh's camera!

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] Al if you want I can take some shots of your baby under the big light next Saturday? That goes for every one going to the Fort Erie bash too.[/QUOTE]
Great idea, Hesh! Get someone to snap a group photo of everyone holding his own guitar. Uncle Bob can, appropriately, hold some zoot.

Beautiful work, Alain,

I don't care how many guitars I've seen built with EIR over the last 30-odd years, I still love it. The FP and koa really set it off nicely. Great piece of work and nice photos too!

Hesh, I'm very curious about your place of birth....
"on the nut house grounds in Traverse City" ?

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

[quote]In fact my earliest friends were all insane...... [/quote]

You had friends??

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Hesh, I'm proud to say i'm mentally challenged and your friend BTSW!

Then you should see me driving in the country side, it's pretty hard to stay on the road when seeing so many beautiful trees! I guess that's why my wife tells me i drive like a maniac!

[QUOTE=Hesh1956]
This is why I feel right at home here with the OLF....    [/QUOTE]

Hesh, that's great. Probably true, too!

I lived across the road from Napa State Hospital in the early 70s. Nice rural setting. The drug rehab ward was in a separate building off by itself, coupla hundred yards from my house. We used to hear great music from there wafting off the hills Sunday afternoons. The next year the governor yanked the rug out from under mental health care. That was the beginning of the "homeless problem" in the area.burbank38920.5069444444

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

[quote=Blind Lemon Hesh]This morning I woke up staring at the horizontal blinds
Thinking that it was a pile of stickered zoot.[/quote]

What song was THAT?    


[quote]Yes! And they were all nuts too my friend[/quote]
Touche!   

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)