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| Author: | Louis Freilicher [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:37 am ] |
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Well she's finally done and shipped off to NOLA!!! Koa top, back, sides and neck from Bruce Creps at Notable Woods. (More on the way!) Madrose fingerboard, headplate and tailpiece from LMI. (when they could still get the good stuff) 
Pickups and knobs from the Stew Mac. 
Thanks for looking! Louis |
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| Author: | LuthierSupplier [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:40 am ] |
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Wow! Louis, that is fantastic! Great job on that. Just wish I could play it! Tracy |
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| Author: | SniderMike [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:49 am ] |
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Daaaaaaang!!! That's beautiful, Louis! I love it! |
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| Author: | Louis Freilicher [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:09 am ] |
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Hey Thanks Everybody! Hesh, you must have one powerful sniffer to detect an ex-hippie from over 1000 miles away!! 
Cheers, Louis |
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| Author: | Jim Kirby [ Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:03 pm ] |
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That's just gorgeous! What are the controls, standard 2 volume/two tone? Pictures of the insides?  
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| Author: | Dave-SKG [ Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:16 am ] |
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The guitar looks spectacular. Congrats! i am wondering why you made the sound holes so large...was it from a plan...did you tune it? Just wondering.
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| Author: | WaddyThomson [ Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:34 am ] |
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Killer looking guitar. Nice work!
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| Author: | Louis Freilicher [ Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:52 am ] |
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Thanks again guys. The controls are standard Gibson style, 2 volume and 2 tone, rearranged to put the neck pickup volume in pinky range from the bridge. The owner picked the arrangement of the knobs and decided the three-way switch could go way in the back, as he almost always sticks with the neck pickup. This is an evolution of a design that goes back a few years. The top and back plates are carved and graduated and the top is parallel braced like an acoustic arch top but the top plate was left a little thicker down the middle. The sides are bent like an acoustic but the inside of the cutaways are part of the neck block, kind of like a mandolin. The sides end and are inlayed into the neck block at the point of the cutaways. (I may have construction pics somewhere) I didn't necessarily tune the sound holes, I worked out the size and placement purely on aesthetics. The binding went on after the box was closed (never again) so they are a bindings width smaller than they were originally conceived. Jim, I didn't take any pics of the finished insides but I'll look back over my construction pics and see what I've got. Cheers, Louis |
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| Author: | Andy Zimmerman [ Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:17 am ] |
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That is one cool guitar |
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| Author: | KMartin [ Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:11 am ] |
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Sweet design.
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