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All Koa concert uke
EIR/Sitka concert uke
Zebrawood/Sitka soprano uke

Just got rid of the last commission, curly maple/adi 12 string cutaway. Now I need to finish the neck for the L-00 I was working on before the commish and get started on the next commish, which will be mac ebony B/S with an adi top. Other details haven't been settled as of yet.

Oh yeah, I also went out and cleaned up the shop a bit after the last one I finished. What a mess, gotta get one of those cyclone collectors soon.....

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

OM - Walnut/Sitka Bearclaw
OM - EIR/Engleman
Dred - Walnut/Carpathian

On my bench is my new Dozuki Noko Razor Saw and I can't stop cutting things!! My new favorite tool. By far.

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Instagram: @jfrenchluthier
Web: https://www.jfrenchguitars.com/

[QUOTE=ToddStock]...Pat - be careful! Hope you feel better...take some Vitamin M (that would be 800mg of Motrin).

Todd[/QUOTE]

Thanks, Todd!

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

01/18/07
Setup Gibson Byrdland 2 Les Pauls Ibanez 5 string bass Fender 5 string bass 2 fender strats. Long day for me
Best Evan

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http://www.NewYorkGuitarRepair.com

OK I give up, John How's the winner!

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

[QUOTE=Colin S] OK I give up, John How's the winner!

Colin[/QUOTE]

First time I met John How -- he was heading home to wet sand 9 guitars. He's slowing down

Dust.

Homeboy

Finally finishing and assembling parts for a fence for a router table that I built to house my laminite trimmer.

A totally ridiculous amount of stuff, given the rate at which I work:

EIR/spruce classical needing fretwork touchup, final fp touch up.
Going out to a friend in Florida.

EIR/WRC classical in the middle of binding, but I didn't like the color match of the back strip and bindings so it's waiting til I get the new bindings bent. Going to
a student in our lab.

two flamencos - Alaskan Yellow Cedar/Englemann and Alaskan/Sitka. Just about to close up the Englemann body. Reyes plan. One is for a friend (his choice), the other for ME!

Telecaster with an ash body/myrtle top. Needs nitro finish. For a friend (and my first Ph.D. student, way back when.)

4 string electric bass - neck through, neck is maple/bloodwood/walnut/bloodwood/maple, with 2-way truss rod and two carbon rods. Body is myrtle(top)/bloodwood/black limba. Bardolini P/J pair and preamp. Needs contouring, fingerboard, finish.
(For ME - and I'll play it in band.)

OM - claro walnut/WRC. sides sitting in mold. Got put off by requests for all the classicals.

Irish Bouzouki following MacDonald plan but flat top with
M/T neck joint as opposed to the one he uses in his book.
Also sitting in form, also put off.

OM - EIR/englemann. Finished, in the white. waiting for
Z-poxy, fp finish. Sounds good. (for ME!) This is the guitar I built in Frank Finocchio's course.

Martin OM kit. Awaiting either a much higher than normal bridge or a neck reset. This was my first acoustic guitar. Not all went well. I had no clue how to set the neck at that point. (hopefully not for junk pile!)

Jim

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

[QUOTE=John How] [QUOTE=Anthony Z]
How were you other fellows able to post pictures?
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I posted my pics just like I always do but I have my own server space and do not upload to the OLF space. Maybe that's the problem. Perhaps OLF has run out of picture space. I really don't know so I'm just babbling here, actually I'm just trying to become brazilian like Serge!!![/QUOTE]

Hey John, you're almost there my friend, just a quick run in the Off topic section, making a few jokes and posting a few smileys and you're set, that's how i did it!

Anthony, I'm really looking forward to the pics. I love archtops.

[QUOTE=Anthony Z] [QUOTE=Colin S] OK I give up, John How's the winner!

Colin[/QUOTE]

First time I met John How -- he was heading home to wet sand 9 guitars. He's slowing down [/QUOTE]

Anthony, I still haven't finished all those guitars. I still have a 000 from that batch to do. I hope to finish it one of these days. But I just started a new guitar this morning, A ladder braced Grand Concert that I hope to take to the HGF this summer.

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Tickle your guitar daily, and it'll tickle you back.

One A-style mando, one guitar bouzouki, two regular guitars.

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

21" Ridgeback* cittern - madagascar rosewood, eurospruce, maple neck - bending back and sides next.

10 string Ridgeback mandolin - walnut, eurospruce, maple neck - rosette next.

8 string Ridgeback Mandolin - mahogany, engleman, cedro neck - shaping 2 point compound neck block next.

Piccolo 'Vega' Mandolute - the first of my extended family of Vega cylinder back reproductions, making the mold and bending forms for back and sides at the mo. Mahogany b/s/n and eurospruce.

7 string lute - making the mold - too much mdf shaping going on! Haven't decided on bowl woods yet.

* Ridgebacks are my induced arch, asymetrical double compound cutaway mandothings with Vega cylinderback influenced backs.

Busy Bunch

Welcome Dunbar, tried your www, where are the instruments, we want to see 'em. tia

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http://www.dickeyguitars.com

OM...EIR/Sitka...body completed...experimenting on Zpoxy coating as a finish, neck in progress.

000-12 Fret...Quilted Sapele/Adirondak...body completed, top FP'd, neck in progress

OLF-SJ...Cuban Mahogany/Lutz...body completed, top FP'd, neck in progress.

I hope to begin spraying Nitro to 2 of these (and possibly the 3rd) in a week or so.

Solid body electric...Body is a seven piece laminate with a mahogany core. Lams are complete but shape not cut yet. 24 fret neck is a 5-piece maple laminate which is glued up but not yet cut out. This is my "spare time" effort.

I've concluded that building 3 different acoustic body styles simultaneously is a PITA. Much better to keep things straight for my little mind if they were all the same shape.

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

[QUOTE=JJ Donohue]I've concluded that building 3 different acoustic body styles simultaneously is a PITA. Much better to keep things straight for my little mind if they were all the same shape. [/QUOTE]
Hey, your brain is convoluted, so why not your hobby? You've been busy! I'm looking forward to seeing the results.

[QUOTE=John How] [QUOTE=Anthony Z] [QUOTE=Colin S] OK I give up, John How's the winner!

Colin[/QUOTE]

First time I met John How -- he was heading home to wet sand 9 guitars. He's slowing down [/QUOTE]

Anthony, I still haven't finished all those guitars. I still have a 000 from that batch to do. I hope to finish it one of these days. But I just started a new guitar this morning, A ladder braced Grand Concert that I hope to take to the HGF this summer.[/QUOTE]

So your earlier post was a misrepresentation -- you slacker

[QUOTE=Bruce Dickey]Busy Bunch

Welcome Dunbar, tried your www, where are the instruments, we want to see 'em. tia[/QUOTE]

 Thanks. I need to do some webby stuff again - that page is rather old. I'll try and do some once my bench is a little clearer.

Right now, I'm feeding my Luddism by refurbing a nice hand powered bench drill