--Almost --
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.
Ill get to that tomorrow
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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:34 pm ] |
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--Almost -- 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. Ill get to that tomorrow
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| Author: | BruceH [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:38 pm ] |
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Wow! Going to be a beauty. |
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| Author: | Wade Sylvester [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:19 pm ] |
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Lance, 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. Wade |
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| Author: | L. Presnall [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:39 pm ] |
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 It's gonna be SWWWEEEEETTT! 
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| Author: | old man [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:04 pm ] |
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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. Ron |
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| Author: | John Mayes [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:12 pm ] |
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[QUOTE=Hesh1956] if you rub it the wrong way...... Hesh[/QUOTE] What are you...oh heck nevermind....I'll get booted if I crack the joke on this one.... Nice looking lance! I actually like to miter the engraft purflings. It's not hard to do and it really adds some class! |
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| Author: | Terry Stowell [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:28 pm ] |
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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? |
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| Author: | Shane Neifer [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:09 pm ] |
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She's a Beaut Lance!! Shane |
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| Author: | BlueSpirit [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:14 pm ] |
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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. 
WTG Lance |
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| Author: | Josh H [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:22 pm ] |
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Looks great Lance! We want to see more pics when it is done. Josh |
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| Author: | Bobc [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:16 pm ] |
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Looking great Lance. |
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| Author: | John Kinnaird [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:37 pm ] |
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Boy that looks good. Excellent wood combinations and from the shavings it looks like you have a seriously sharp scraper. John |
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| Author: | Arnt Rian [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:32 pm ] |
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Boy, that's nice. Can we see a shot of the "custom maple top purflings" too? |
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| Author: | Matt Gage [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:09 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:50 pm ] |
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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...... Hesh[/QUOTE] 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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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:51 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:53 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | LanceK [ Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:56 pm ] |
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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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| Author: | Bobc [ Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:19 am ] |
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Lance I'm happy to hear they worked out for you. |
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| Author: | John Mayes [ Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:34 am ] |
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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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| Author: | Don A [ Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:07 am ] |
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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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| Author: | FrankC [ Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:36 am ] |
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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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| Author: | John Mayes [ Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:06 am ] |
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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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| Author: | LanceK [ Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:27 am ] |
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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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