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It has been a long time since I have completed a guitar. This is an OLF SJ shape with redesigned bracing.
The back and sides are White Oak
The top is Engelmann spruce
The binding is manzanita
The segmented rosette is oak and manzanita.
Fretboard is ebony with MOP brances and doves
Fretboard side markers are white oak.
Headstock is manzanita.
Neck is mahogany, maple and manzanita.
The sides are "double" sides with maple as the inner laminate.
This is my first post Somogyi course guitar. It is easily my best sounding guitar, the most responsive and the most bass.

Thanks for looking.









The soundport is lined in manzanita

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That looks GREAT !   I like everything about it. The guitar I start soon will have a similar segmented rosette as well, even if it a classical. And i always thought that when I'll make a blanca, she will have red bindings - I liked working with bloodwood a lot.

Bracing pic ?  Soundclip ?

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Steve,

Lovely guitar. That white oak looks great under the finish - very deep and 3D looking. The manzanita binding goes really well with the oak and Englemann and the rosette really pulls it all together. The neck makes a lovely contrast too. Lovely workmanship

Any chance of seeing the bracing pattern you did or is it in the "if I show you I'll have to kill you" category

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Really, really nice Steve. That's got to be the coolest oak I've ever seen! And, it's nice to see your new bridge come to fruition... I like it a lot!

Sound clip???

Long

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Beautiful Guitar Steve ! I'm really interested in the sound of the Oak also. I have a ton of it and if it makes for good guitars I wont have to buy back and sides for  years

GREAT craftsmanship also!

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Ken H

Steve that is STUNNING!

Your bridge turned out fanstastic! The Oak is killer!

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Steve, this guitar is your best yet. Weight wise, it looks a lot "lighter" than your other guitars; (I've played so many guitars in the past I can guess by looking alone if the instrument is light!)

VERY beautiful indeed. I don't think I have ever seen an oak guitar with such depth of sheen.

Not only is that a great looking guitar and well executed. Those are some of the best photographs anyone has ever put up on the OLF. That is no easy feat. Congratulations Steve on your Post Somogyi box.

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Steve, that is a wonderful looking guitar. I hope we can all hear some audio...
by the way, did you build that case?
chris

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Looking good... that's some great looking oak and the bindings frame it nicely

Thank you all for the kind words. This guitar was really a joint effort with the client suggesting some of the nice touches like the segmented rosette and the fretboard inlays.
The oak is from Bob, the Engelmann from LMI, the Manzanita was from a vendor and Northern California, and some that I acquired while camping.

Oak is great. It bends easy and sounds good. It seems to me that it is a lot like walnut tone-wise.    
I'll try to get an audio clip before I ship it out. I'm not really set up for that.

Sam - It is a light weight guitar.

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[QUOTE=Bruce Dickey] Those are some of the best photographs anyone has ever put up on the OLF. That is no easy feat.[/QUOTE]
That's quite a compliment - Thank you. Guitars are very hard to photgraph.

FYI - I used all natural lighting (the sun), filtered through a window shade. No flash was used. My Nikon D50 set at ISO 200 on a tripod with a Nikon 18-200VR lens, no filter.

Photoshop was needed to correct light balance to make the black black and the white Engelmann top lighter.

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wow, that looks exactlly like the curly oak i bought on another sites auction four months ago, and still cant get.

how does it sound, im glad someone got it

mark

I was seduced into buying a white oak curly board once. It just kept calling to me as I walked around the room drooling over all the racks of wood. But this piece in Steve's guitar is one in a million board feet. Mine pales in comparison, but it's still nice.

I was just over at StewMac looking at Vintage Amber color tone tint. I can imagine some of the lighter woods like white oak and big leaf maple would be gorgeous with a dark tint in the lacquer.

This piece above though has plenty of darker coloring to be great as is.

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That's something to be proud of! Really like the bridge,neck and
fingerboard. Great job!

Steve,

VERY nice piece of work!!

One question. Could be my eyes, but it looks to me as if the saddle is perpendicular to the center line of the guitar. Is that so?

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Really nice, Steve!

Bet it wasn't easy finding pieces of Manzanita long enough, without lots of runout, for those bindings. Really a warm brick red, and a great combo with the White Oak!

Dennis
p.s. Please jump into the soundhole thread I started yesterday, and add your ideas about soundholes. The matching binding looks excellent!

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Dennis Leahy
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7th Sense Multimedia

{edit} I meant "sound port", not "soundhole"
-Dennis

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7th Sense Multimedia

[QUOTE=DennisLeahy]Bet it wasn't easy finding pieces of Manzanita long enough, without lots of runout, for those bindings.......[/QUOTE] No it wasn't. I was really please to find some.


[QUOTE=burbank] One question. Could be my eyes, but it looks to me as if the saddle is perpendicular to the center line of the guitar. Is that so? [/QUOTE] No, it is angled.

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Steve that is a great looking guitar. I especially think that the dove and olive branches add a nice touch, and of course that oak with red binding is beautiful.

John

Steve
So that's what you did with the curly oak.

Simply beautiful guitar. I really like your bridge too.

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[QUOTE=Bobc] Steve
So that's what you did with the curly oak.
[/QUOTE] Do you have any more?

[QUOTE=Bobc]
Simply beautiful guitar. I really like your bridge too.
[/QUOTE] Thank you Bob.

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Steve I will have more oak but it will be a while.

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