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The devil is definitely in the details. This guitar has snakewood bindings, top and side purfling, mitered at the butt, custom maple top purflings. Right now some scraping is all that is left and the box is done.
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This is the fun part. Bringing that beauty out to be seen.
You can see it in there and it is going to be nice.
Great combo Lance!
Show us that mitered butt when its shining.

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Boy is that going to be nice!! Can't wait to see it finished. I also wondered how hard it is to bend and glue snakewood.
Can you compare it to bending and glueing ebony as that's all I've done so far.

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[QUOTE=Hesh1956] if you rub it the wrong way......
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What are you...oh heck nevermind....I'll get booted if I crack the joke on
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Nice looking lance! I actually like to miter the engraft purflings. It's not
hard to do and it really adds some class!John Mayes38685.9680439815

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Mitered purfs! Hip Hip Huray! Way to go Lance!

How bout another shot with the vac jig when it's near done?Terry Stowell38685.9847337963
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My, My, but that is a beaut. We need more pics of this one. And so hi-tech with that robotic looking thing-a-ma-jig holder.
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Looks great Lance!

We want to see more pics when it is done.

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Boy that looks good. Excellent wood combinations and from the shavings it looks like you have a seriously sharp scraper.

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Boy, that's nice. Can we see a shot of the "custom maple top purflings" too?

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dang, thats one ugly guitar Lance.
quick! shoot it and put it out of it`s misery.

Honestly, that looks awesome bud.
is this your 12 fret dred?


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[QUOTE=Hesh1956] Lance it looks great!

Two questions: 1) Is this one with the Mexican crack wood? 2) Did you fidn the snake wood hard to bend, I did and it also splinters right into your finger if you rub it the wrong way......

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Hesh, this one is made from Black Acacia that I got from Don Williams,
Here is the Mexican Crack wood



The snakewood bent very easily, it is however a dreadnough shape, suffice to say, not much of a bend.
It'll give you a sliver if you look at it wrong

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[QUOTE=old man] Boy is that going to be nice!! Can't wait to see it finished. I also wondered how hard it is to bend and glue snakewood.
Can you compare it to bending and glueing ebony as that's all I've done so far.

Ron [/QUOTE]

In my experience, Ebony is the single hardest binding to bend, but its SO So easy to work with because of the ability to hide cracks and gaps. The snakewood bent very easy using my Blues Creek bender.

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[QUOTE=Matt Gage] dang, thats one ugly guitar Lance.
quick! shoot it and put it out of it`s misery.

Honestly, that looks awesome bud.
is this your 12 fret dred? [/QUOTE]

Thanks Matt - yes this is the one I started (before) you started yours, ya know the one you already finished

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Thanks guys - Ill get some close-ups of the flamed maple purflings, BobC made them for me and he did (as usual) a fantastic job. They are b/w/b/flamed maple/b/w/b and look great. Thanks again Bob!



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[QUOTE=LanceK] Thanks guys - Ill get some close-ups of the flamed
maple purflings, BobC made them for me and he did (as usual) a fantastic
job. They are b/w/b/flamed maple/b/w/b and look great. Thanks again
Bob!


[/QUOTE]

That combo of purflings is what call Mapalone. Same config is used with
abalone but substitute flamey maple for the bling and you got Maplalone!


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Hey Bob, I'm not much into the abalone bling look for perfling. It just seems to distract to much from the rest of the guitar. Any chance you will offer Mapalone in the future?

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that is ugly. please ship it to me where i will take care of disposing of it

as always, your guitars look great! is that a abalone rosette?

mapalone...oh that crazy john!
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really! I've been using (as I'm sure lots of other shave been too) using
mapalone for some time now... here is a pic of one..you just gotta cut
the maple so that the flame shows up on the edge not the face.

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Here is the inspiration for the binding scheme I used.
Its been a while, but I (think) this is a Walker.



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