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Got the top on today and am hurrying a couple of pics. Please excuse the pimples and stains as I know you are all capable of. Pretty pleased so far.

A little deeper than I had envisioned - 3 5/8 and 4 5/8 because I didn't make as many mistakes that usually make the guitar shallower as I sand and shave to make things right. So the sound as usual will be a surprise with the deeper body.

The sound hole is slightly over sized and the rosette, which looks very rough but should clean OK great is blood wood and abalone with w/b/w detail.

The binding will be a simple blood wood with w/b/w/ purfling and the finger board, bridge, and head plate are all blood wood as well with a little more w/b/w/ detail.

Cut a sound port as you can see - a little cliche design wise but it works. Laminated w/b/w veneer inside the sound port because I didn't trust the blood wood to stay together and it carries the w/b/w blood wood theme.

Just remembered - did not spray the inside as planned

First time with radius dishes and that made such a huge difference. Also used a go-bar deck for the first time and that was also a huge help.

Thanks as always to everyone here, that's HUGE help as well.

Larry

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Looking good Larry. I really like your soundport design.

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Very Nice!

Mike

Larry, that is looking excellent...I am with Bob -- cool soundport!

Just had a second look -- is that bloodwood side reinforcements and a bloodwood cap on the back X brace! That's a nice touch.

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Very nice Larry! I like the soundport too. Kind of reminds me of the yin yang thing. Very cool!

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[QUOTE=Anthony Z] Larry, that is looking excellent...I am with Bob -- cool soundport!

Just had a second look -- is that bloodwood side reinforcements and a bloodwood cap on the back X brace! That's a nice touch.

Anthony[/QUOTE]

Yeah Anthony, I killed my first head plate w/b/w lamination and used it for the side braces, The w/b/w is still there and it's a pretty cool touch. And yes redwood back braces and a blood wood cap.

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Larry-
Soundport looks good! Big improvement on the round cutouts.

Did you cut it- with a coping saw or use some other method?

John

[QUOTE=Dave Rector] Very nice Larry! I like the soundport too. Kind of reminds me of the yin yang thing. Very cool![/QUOTE]

I actually took the yin yang symbol and elongated it on Corel Draw. Printed it ,cut out the drawing, stuck it on the guitar and that's where the fun a started. It was not easy getting those small points cut in.

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[QUOTE=JohnAbercrombie] Larry-
Soundport looks good! Big improvement on the round cutouts.

Did you cut it- with a coping saw or use some other method?

John[/QUOTE]

John, see the post above as far as getting the design onto the guitar, I then drilled a small hole which was reamed as far as my reamer would go, took a Dremel with smoke pouring from all orifices and ground out what I could. Then on to one of those mini hack saw blades, razor knife, rat tail files, super small jeweler's files more razor knife, sandpaper, razor knife to finish the smallest portions, sandpaper - you get the idea. Tedious and thought I had bitten off too much but it came out pretty much how I figured it could.

This pic shows the w/b/w lamination done with epoxy to add strength to that thin little piece of sound port. I hope I can get the w/b/w detail to show after finishing.

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Very nice work Larry! Love your soundport too, looks very nice!

Wow,
Nice attention to detail on that soundport.
I also really like the redwood w/bloodwood/abalone combo on th rosette.

Admittedly, I'm a sucker for a redwood topped guitar

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Great looking guitar Larry! I LOVE the sound port!

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