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Wes McMillian

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:48 am

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Lance, does this one qualify for the newbie giveaway status?

Hopefully this one won't give it away too quick. This NTB may be too easy for some of y'all.

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Wes McMillian

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:49 am

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DAAAANG, they didn't show up that big on my computer?

Oh, well, sorry!

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RWGoodman

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:06 am

Walnut

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I never usually have a chance guessing these but I think Mario Proulx uses the twisted bindings.

Warren.

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RWGoodman

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:07 am

Walnut

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Purflings...

Warren.

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TommyC

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:07 am

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Is it Tony Karol?

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Hesh

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:09 am

Old Growth Brazilian Rosewood

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Walker

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davidmor

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:14 am

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I don't know who built it but I love those perflings. If it is someone on these forums, any chance of a tutorial on how to make them?

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Don Williams

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:14 am

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Not Kim Walker...nope. No way.

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Alexandru Marian

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:30 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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David, I would imagine you need a bunch of thin veneer, arrange strips in a "domino effect", glue up then plane. basically a half herringbone. I hope i am not way off on this one. I was just thinking a couple hours ago to try and do such purflings for my current project....

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Dave Higham

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:35 am

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Grumpy!

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Hesh

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:36 am

Old Growth Brazilian Rosewood

Don I didn't mean Kim Walker - I meant that guy that uses a walker, Elmer something......

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Dave Higham

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:39 am

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In fact that's quite a coincidence. About 5 minutes ago I was thinking it would be nice if he would tell us how he does that superb bevel.

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leerobs42

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:48 am

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Brock??

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Wes McMillian

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:50 am

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Yep, Warren nailed it right off the bat. It's our very own Grumpy!

I figured the purfling and the bevel would be a dead giveaway. After all, he did post a pic of the bevel here a while back. I knew he was doing soundports, but I hadn't seen one yet. I really like it.

It tickles me sometimes the guys who believe you can't be innovative and build for bluegrassers at the same time. The days of the old Martin stigma are, for the most part, gone these days with many great builders coming out. (Don't get me wrong, I'm still a die-hard Martin fan myself.) I, personally, love Mario's style. Very innovative, yet very traditional at the same time. I've only heard one and it was a pure cannon! I knew that was the tone I was looking for as soon as I heard it.

Mario may not peek at these NTB threads too much, I don't know. We may have to flush him out in another thread.

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Wes McMillian

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:55 am

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A couple more:

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Alexandru Marian

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:18 pm

Brazilian Rosewood

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Thats one tiny bridge, seems to be even narrower than a classical bridge. I suppose heavy gouges are not a good ideea?

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Matt Gage

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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:41 pm

Koa

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Are those back braces cedar?

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LanceK

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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:46 am

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[QUOTE=Matt Gage] Are those back braces cedar?

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I was wondering the same thing Matt!

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AndrewGribble

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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:19 am

To my eye they look a bit like Black walnut?

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WaddyThomson

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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:38 am

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WaddyThomson

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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:39 am

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Operator Head Space, again!

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grumpy

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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:41 am

Koa

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Aye! My ears were ringing.....

back braces: Western Red Cedar

Bridge? I've made smaller ones. All strung 13-56.... Hide glue, planed surfaces, and solid pins. In fact, my bridge is larger than on the 30's and 40's Gibsons...

The Bevel is the one that Lance McCollum showed us in November...

The purflings are my take on some I'd seen on a Roy Noble guitar years ago. Took me several more years, maybe a decade, to figure out how he did it. I want to do them in black and white fiber soon....

We don't find red spruce like that at WalMart, now, do we? <g>

Thanks for the good words, everyone. Kinda shocking to look-in and see those pics.

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Alexandru Marian

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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:59 am

Brazilian Rosewood

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WRC back braces make sense. They are very light and not overly stiff. I've tried nomal sized spruce on my latest and i think it's a bad ideea. Too stiff, too light. Makes for a high pitched and at the same time dead tap tone. Today shaving their centers a lot and the back slowly comes back alive.

... is it lightly braced as well? Otherwise it would lack bass?

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Wes McMillian

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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:13 am

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OK, forgive me but some of us are more simple minded than others. Planed surfaces? I mean, I know the reasons WHY, just questioning how with the radius. Is this just to mean you sand the radius and hit with a scraper, I assume? I'm also shooting for planed joints wherever possible, but didn't see how here. Guess that method makes the most sense.

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