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Great Job!!!!

It looks great and like other have said you should be proud.

Josh

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Josh House

Canadian Luthier Supply
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House Guitars - Custom Built Acoustic Instruments.
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Very nice!!!

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

Congrats Ron! What a great accomplishment huh? I'll bet it was a great feeling playing it for the first time!
Very nice job.   

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

Fantastic Ron! I remember stringing my first up, I kept squinting as I strung it up expecting something to come flying off. Glad it held up, and a big congrats!
Tracy

Ron,

You should be proud of this guitar and it is a testament to your careful but dedicated effort. The fact that you are planning numbers 2 and 3 so quickly tells a lot about your learning curve and comfort level. This forum is full of support and good advice and helps the neophyte builder to quickly become competent enough to make not just acceptable instruments but quite nice instruments. I look forward to the day that I can post my first guitar. My problems are no time, no money, no space, no tools, no skill, and my Wife who always has a long honey do list. None the less, I have learned so much about building a guitar at this forum that I know if I take my time, like you did, that I will do just fine. I also know that if I have issue while building that there are numerous poster here that will come to my aid with help and understanding.

Philip

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aka konacat

If you think my playing is bad you should hear me sing!
Practice breeds confidence and confidence breeds competence. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in practice.

Ron,

Fantastic job - you must be really proud. Nothing beats the sound of your first one when you string it up.

The start of a very slippery slope. Just keep those guitars slipping out and show us all the pics

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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

WTG Ron. I am so impressed. Just goes to show what we grey beards can do when we set our minds to it.

Excellent job Ron! That cherry looks sweeeeet!

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

My congrats to you, Ron! My first wasn't that good.
It's great to see another fan of cherry here, too. I love that stuff and use it a lot.

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Mark Swanson
Swanson Guitars
http://www.MarkSwansonMusic.com

Great effort. As great as you felt finishing the first it gets even better with each one completed. I also love Cherry ...great choice.

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

Beautiful...an awesome 1st effort.
I love the shape of your bridge.
You should be very proud
Andy

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Andy Z.
http://www.lazydogguitars.com

Ron, congratulations to you sir, very nicely done. I love your logo and the notation of Serial No. 01 (you might want to change that to Serial No. 001). Can we get a close up shot of your headstock?

I note in the last pic she's sitting prominently on your bed, does that mean someone has been displaced Anthony Z38729.8252199074

Great work Ron. That rosette is very clean as is interior construction. I like the back and side wood. Cherry no?

Well done. I wish my first had looked that good.

John

Nice clean work Ron. Well done!!

How did you apply the tru oil and what do you think of it for a instrument finish?

Great Job!! I wish my first one looked that good.

Beautiful! I love dreads and this is a nice looking one. Simpily beautiful.

Congratz

Good grief...how do you first timers keep turning out these great guitars? I think maybe I'll just have Williams make one for me and put my name on the headstock. Hmmmm...

Great job man, beautiful axe.

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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Very Nice!

Nice work, Ron. It doesn't look at all like a first effort. Everything is nicely
aligned.

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Howard Klepper
http://www.klepperguitars.com

When all else fails, clean the shop.

Thanks again to everyone. I'm overwhelmed.

Roy, I wiped with a lint free cloth, let each thin coat dry
overnight and used steel wool between coats, and topped the final coat with lemon oil.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Wow! If I ever build a guitar I hope it comes out 1/2 that great. Great job. Keep going.
Evan

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http://www.NewYorkGuitarRepair.com

Anthony, the displacement is only temporary. It was so overcast here today that I couldn't get a good headstock shot without glare. I'll try again tomorrow. There is a picture in an early post when I first did the inlay, but I have no idea where it's buried. Maybe tomorrow.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Very Nice!! You did a first class job on it.

That is one nice guitar. I especially like the tail of this one, very cool grain set coming together. Congratulations, Woooo Pigggggg Sooooie, Arkansas! Twang!