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Andy, thanks a whole bunch. Interesting bracing pattern...if it sounds half as good as its going to look -- you're going to have a winner.

Thanks for the pics, guys!
Very inspiring... about as good a motivator
as a stout cup of coffee.

Steve

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

I didn't mention it in my post, but the plane in my picture is the Spiers infill plane that I got as a gift to myself last Christmas. It really shines with tough woods like this; the extra mass, the thick iron, the tight mouth and the mass placement all contribute to the pleasant planing experience. Can you tell that I am really fond of this plane…

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Your welcome! It looks great. I love the look of ziricote

itook some time away from studying and stumbled across this great thread!
beautiful work, all of you guys!
i aint home so i cant take decent pics but i do have some recently taken pics here with me so basically its a camatillo rswd/carpathain flamenca negra & an italian spruce/IER dread but all i have showing of that one is the currently in production Hond.mahagony neck with its slotted headstock and V joint.
might be able to take some more recent pics during the weekend.

take care ya'll!
Udi.

Left to right:
1)Engelmann and ziricote classical
2)WRC and ziricote classical
3)Blonde WRC and cocobolo SJ
4)Carpathian and koa SJ

Garey, those are beautiful! Can you tell us a bit more about them, for starters what finish is that?

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

Hey Toddstock, what ever happened to the Khaya
Weissenborn you were building? I've been waiting
for an update. As a newbie I'm presently learning to
do some repairs by restoring a Pre War Parlor.
When i finish, I will attempt to build a Weissenborn.

All are finished with French polished shellac. The SJ's will be completed in a few weeks, sadly right before I have to close up the workshop, move to another state, and set up again. This is my first attempt at steel string guitars and they were based on the OLF SJ. More pictures to come when they are done. The classicals will have to wait until I re-build a new shop before they are finished. They are based on the Rodriquez pattern, will have elevated fingerboards and fitted with Rodgers tuners.

What is on my workbench?

Well, I have several workbenches, 4 to be exact. And all of them have so much clutter on them that you can hardly see the bench surface.
Yes, I know that's pathetic, but I'm in the middle of rehabbing my shop for the second time in a few years.
I've removed several walls to eliminate a spray room and extend the workshop space.
In the process, I've made room for a small cnc and a new sander (if I get one),
and am removing the overhead wood storage rack and putting up a wall-mounted wood rack.
I'm also making space for more shelving for wood that I'm stickering and selling.
I have way more wood than I realized!   Perhaps when it's done I'll post a pic of the final product.
Still nothing in the process as far as guitars go.
One of these days I'll have something going once I'm done with this project.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Gary L
I have always LOVED your classical rosettes.
How about a close up of the 2 on the bench!!!

Also your french polish is flawless!!!

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Andy Z.
http://www.lazydogguitars.com

This is sort of an introduction, combined with a "what's on my bench ". I've been lurking here for about 6 weeks or so, but haven't posted yet (I don't think). I built my first guitar, a knock off of a Taylor-style flat-top, back in 1995. Built two D-hole Maccaferri-style guitars in 1998, and haven't done squat since. Started a mandolin project about three years ago or so. Built a prototype of of cheapo Home Depot woods. The prototype was a success, so began working on three similar mandos out of good woods, but I lost the drive and let them sit for about three years.

I accepted a VERY early retirement offer from Ford about three weeks ago, and have been back in the shop full-time since then. The mandos are below; they're based on Bendetto's guitar blueprint, but with F-5 style bracing. Tomorrow I'll rout the dovetail mortises, and begin the necks. I've got woods for two archtop guitars sitting on the shelf; when the mandos are done, the guitars come next.

Nice to finally "meet" all of you - the quality of work here is stunning.

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Rick Jones
Rochester Hills, MI
http://home.comcast.net/~rajones19

OK .... anybody know why the text in my note above didn't wrap? Is that a Firefox thing, a Forum thing, or pilot error?

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Rick Jones
Rochester Hills, MI
http://home.comcast.net/~rajones19

Rick, your text didn't wrap because the page is sized to the width of the widest picture in the thread.

Great work, everyone!

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John Watkins
CNC Guitar Parts

Rick, you can simply add hard returns <Enter> at the end of a line, to get the text to be more manageable.

If folks could size their images more carefully (Doctors! ) this wouldn't be such a problem.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Wow, NICE work everybody! What wood is the back of the redwood top guitar Andy?

My workbench is not that full at the moment, Im in the final year of my school, and making the journeymans letter, which is the traditional way of getting a craftsmans certificate in sweden.

The test is, to make a technical drawing, build a guitar following it, and have two guitarmakers come and gradit between 0.0 and 5.0... then two guitarists come and grade it too.

My guitar is a small guitar made with fingerstyle players in mind. Its 15 " LB, 25.5" scale. Top is Carpathian with red spruce braces, HHG. Back is Brazilian, and the rims are laminated. Binding is koa. The fingerbard inlays are inspired by the Somogyi style inlay, with strips as position markers.

Where is the edit button???

[QUOTE=Lars Rasmussen] Where is the edit button???[/QUOTE]
Heh! It's a bit of a controversy here. Brock removed it because some people were deleting whole posts from threads, thus making some of the threads incomprehensible.

Your guitar looks outstanding, Lars! Good luck with your evaluations.

Lars.
The redwood topped guitar has cocobolo B % S

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Andy Z.
http://www.lazydogguitars.com

Andy,
   Thank you for such kind words. Here you go:

Great work Gary. All are very nice. I really think that your rosette is stunning. A real eye-catcher.

Thanks for sharing.


Regards,

Pete

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Peter

This is whats on my unfiinshed bench


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Zac

Anchorage Alaska

Finshed my 1st! See #1 here

ok lets try this again

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Zac

Anchorage Alaska

Finshed my 1st! See #1 here

lots of McPherson guitars....

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com