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Author:  martinedwards [ Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:20 am ]
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So, I mentioned this in the "on your bench" thread.

this guitar is a pay it forward project as a thank you to all those folks who have given me free wood & stuff over the last year.

the recipient will be a young worship leader who needs a decent guitar.......

OK, NEARLY done.

still have to fit the under saddle piezo and strap button/jack socket.

Then fine tune the set-up, lower the nut a hair and the saddle about 2mm.

I'm REALLY pleased with this one!!

OK, summing up,

Body Walnut
top Sitka Spruce
Neck Mahogany
fretboard rosewood
binding & tail wedge mahogany
bridge rosewood
saddle & nut Bone
rosette leopardwood.












Author:  KenH [ Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:30 am ]
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Nice lookin guitar you got there !


I notice you have a pickup and equalizer installed there, what kind is it?
Author:  jhowell [ Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:47 am ]
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Martin--

Great looking guitar and a fine way to put some positive energy into the world. Kudos!!
Author:  WaddyThomson [ Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:16 pm ]
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Nice guitar Martin.  Beautiful wood too.  A star for your kindness and thoughtfulness.

Author:  martinedwards [ Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:53 pm ]
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[QUOTE=Hodges_Guitars]

I notice you have a pickup and equalizer installed there, what kind is it?

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it's an Artec eT-4 it put the et-5 in a previous build and it's pretty good (brilliant considering how cheap!!)

it has a built in tuner which is fun too.

BTW, all the wood excepth the fretboard and top were free. the walnut & mahogany came freom the shopfitter's skip and the rosewood bridge used to be a coffee table!!
Author:  martinedwards [ Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:29 am ]
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oops edit from, not freom

anyone notice the little blooper whenre the back joins the neck?

I was routing the binding channel and had cut out the sides from the neck pocket and the cutter dropped into the hole making a groove into the back.

I marked a balanced curve then cut it to 1/3 depthe of the back with a dremel in a mini router stand & glued in a patch. once the glue was dry I planed it flat with the back.

I really reckon that tas the skill increases the means of covering our mistakes increases too!!
Author:  WaddyThomson [ Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:42 am ]
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Very neat job there Martin. 
Author:  Chris Cordle [ Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:58 am ]
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Wonderful guitar and a very kind and generous deed.
Author:  Scooter B [ Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:58 pm ]
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[QUOTE=martinedwards] BTW, all the wood excepth the fretboard and top were free. the walnut & mahogany came freom the shopfitter's skip and the rosewood bridge used to be a coffee table!![/QUOTE]

One coffee table to one bridge?

Sounds like my kind of wood working....90% dust and cut offs due to goofs and 10% wood left in the final product

I'm sure you came up with a few bridges out of that coffee table.
Author:  martinedwards [ Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:14 pm ]
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OK, OK, the bridge used to be PART of a coffee table
Author:  Dave White [ Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:24 pm ]
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Martin,

That looks good - they are getting better with each one. It's nice to be able to put them in the hands of people that will love, use and cherish them to death.

I think we need to start "Luthiers Scrapheap Challenge" - two builders, two dumpsters and 2 days to design, make and play an instrument - what larks
Author:  martinedwards [ Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:35 pm ]
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2 days!!!!

as long as that!!!!

I reckon we should have a "how fast can you build a playable instrument" thread (and no a bin lid gong doesn't count!!(
Author:  Dave Anderson [ Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:57 am ]
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Nice guitar Martin and very nice thing to do!
Another star ....
Author:  Sam Price [ Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:13 am ]
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Martin and David...

Give us more than two days!! I've got at least FIVE different hats to wear in the course of the day.....

..and anyway I need to buy some duct tape and a tack gun.....

Oh yeah, Martin, although this is the third thread I have commented on...

here's some more stars....



Author:  martinedwards [ Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:54 am ]
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here's a wee soundclick.........
Author:  WaddyThomson [ Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:59 am ]
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Sounds really good Martin.  Great job.   
Author:  Steve Kinnaird [ Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:57 pm ]
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Nice guitar, Martin! I love the scavenger approach to wood collecting, & I'd say you did pretty well in the hunt.
And mercy, those are some tight bends in your cutaway. Impresive!

Steve
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