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Louis Freilicher
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Well she's finally done and shipped off to NOLA!!!

Koa top, back, sides and neck from Bruce Creps at Notable Woods. (More on the way!)

Madrose fingerboard, headplate and tailpiece from LMI.
(when they could still get the good stuff)

Pickups and knobs from the Stew Mac.











Thanks for looking!

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Wow! Louis, that is fantastic! Great job on that. Just wish I could play it!
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Daaaaaaang!!! That's beautiful, Louis! I love it!

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Hey Thanks Everybody!

Hesh, you must have one powerful sniffer to detect an ex-hippie from over 1000 miles away!!

Cheers,

Louis

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That's just gorgeous!

What are the controls, standard 2 volume/two tone? Pictures of the insides?


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The guitar looks spectacular. Congrats! i am wondering why you made the sound holes so large...was it from a plan...did you tune it? Just wondering.

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Killer looking guitar.  Nice work!   

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Thanks again guys. The controls are standard Gibson style, 2 volume and 2 tone, rearranged to put the neck pickup volume in pinky range from the bridge. The owner picked the arrangement of the knobs and decided the three-way switch could go way in the back, as he almost always sticks with the neck pickup.

This is an evolution of a design that goes back a few years. The top and back plates are carved and graduated and the top is parallel braced like an acoustic arch top but the top plate was left a little thicker down the middle. The sides are bent like an acoustic but the inside of the cutaways are part of the neck block, kind of like a mandolin.   The sides end and are inlayed into the neck block at the point of the cutaways. (I may have construction pics somewhere)

I didn't necessarily tune the sound holes, I worked out the size and placement purely on aesthetics. The binding went on after the box was closed (never again) so they are a bindings width smaller than they were originally conceived.

Jim, I didn't take any pics of the finished insides but I'll look back over my construction pics and see what I've got.

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That is one cool guitar

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Sweet design.

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