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Flipping heck, you lot are show offs.

What incredibly high build standards!!!!

Number 1 built in 1999/2000
walnut
sitka
ebony/mammoth ivory detail around sound hole




kevin

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] Dennis I can see why you named her Angelina........

Wow am I impressed! Beautiful shape and very contemporary and imaginative design.

How does she sound?

Thanks for showing the back, with a name like that you knew that someone would ask....... [/QUOTE]
Thanks, Hesh, I appreciate it.
How does she sound? Well, when William Cumpiano played it, he wept openly, because it was the finest sounding musical instrument he had ever had the pleasure of playing. It was at that very moment that he knew his career was over, because he knew there was no way he could ever produce an instrument that sounds as good as Angelina. William Cumpiano has destroyed all of his molds, and sold all of his wood. He is currently in Washington, D.C., looking for a job as a tobacco industry lobbyist.

(Sound files supplied upon request.)

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

From 2001:

Here is my first. Built from scratch using the Cumpiano/Natelson book. It is Cedar/Mahogany with Cocobolo Fret board and Bridge. I had many problems building it, but I am happy with how it turned out.

Graham Steward39018.721875

My first electric and my first acoustic. Electric came first when I
apprenticed with Bruce Clay of Rarebird Guitars. The Acoustic I built in
Robbie O'Brien's class.







Thanks fer lookin!

MikeSniderMike39018.746400463

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[QUOTE=kevine] Number 1 built in 1999/2000
walnut
sitka
ebony/mammoth ivory detail around sound hole




kevin[/QUOTE]

Nice looking guitar there Kevin. Nice toes and is that a bowl of CCF I see on the table?

Kevin, did you ever live in BC? I'm sure your not, but I was friends with a Kevin Epp in Abbotsford back in the 80's. I would have thought that if you were him, you would have said something as my name is... well rare to say the least.

Any by the way.....nice guitars everyone. Well done

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Rod

the toes are 9 yr. daughter
Many relatives in the valley. Never lived there in the 80's
last name suggests that I could be from Abbotsford.
What is "CCF" in the bowl?

Kevin, CCF is Serge's favourite breakfast. Canadian Corn Flakes.

You'll get to know some of the goofyness that goes on around here soon enough.

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"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

This is all I could find of #1, and it wasn't finished in these photos, a little rough around the edges, but it sure sounds good.






Greg

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My first and only to this point:



The back:



Some progress pics:





Other than putting a sharp point where your leg is when playing sitting down, rushing the finishing, putting the electronics towards the front so that the headstock always wants to dive at the floor, and cheating with a premade neck....it was a great first effort and a good birthday present for my little sister!

Andrew

Oh, and Dennis - that is without question the finest butt I've ever seen on an acoustic. harmonist3439019.3696990741

Here's my first. My stepdad and I built this together. He worked as a
pattern maker before retiring and we built it in the shop where he
worked. It's based off the Jackson Soloist model. Of course this was back
in the late 80's, long before I was completely drawn in by acoustic guitars.
Take note of the nasty seams right across the middle from joining up the
maple!

Here you can see the neck heel which has been broken at least twice that
I can remember. It has been glued and doweled. Notice my expert
placement of the dowel on the left and how I drilled the channel right
through the back! Excellent craftsmanship

However, it did sound and play great. It's been in the case for way over 10
years until I pulled it out this morning to snap the pics.

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North Muskegon, MI

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Here's my first, a mahogany dread 12 string. Nobody told me diferent, so it has herringbone on both front and back. The picture is a couple months old, but I built the guitar in 1980, literally half a lifetime ago. My buddy is still playing it. The wood came from Gurian Guitars, back when they were pretty much the only dedicated guitar supplier around, at least as far as I was aware. I built it on a card table in my bedroom. Where there's a will.....

SAM!!!! Someone put you strings on backwards!!

Seriuosly, that is wonderful!

Shane

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I only have this picure of my first, from 2000. It is a copy (sort of, the original of course was much nicer) of my wife's great grandfather's parlour guitar. Baseball bat neck, clunky detalils, but nice and funky sounding.

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[QUOTE=harmonist34] ...

Andrew

Oh, and Dennis - that is without question the finest butt I've ever seen on an acoustic. [/QUOTE]

Andrew,

Thanks!

The shape of the butt of that guitar is only part whimsy. With a 25.34" scale length, the "G" string just barely makes it from the tailpiece to its tuning machine, and wraps just a little bit of the wound portion of the string. My next one is likely to have a floating tailpiece (like an archtop), because everything about that butt (tailblock, binding, inlaying the tailpiece, finishing) was so difficult to do.

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

G'day Arnt !

      I really really like that ! What a beautiful guitar !

best regards Craig Lawrence

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