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This thing is SO cool!!! I'm always inspired by your work, Dave... and this is no exception. the sound is incredible .
I'll have to follow your website to see what your doing next.

long

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Dave - Thanks, and Martha says thankyou too!!

Marin, Banjo and Bob - thank you.

Ron - Thanks. I don't know how much it weighs as I'd have to get on the scales firts to find out and that wouldn't be nice It's a lot lighter than I thought it would be - having wooden tuner buttons really helps here.

Tony - thanks, glad you like it. As for the cf rod anchors, I use 0.2" x 1/4" rods and have the 0.2" router bit. I route the channels for the rods in the neck-block and side anchor braces, epoxy the rods in and fill the gaps with hardwood pieces. Sometimes I put a veneer over the neck-bloc front afterwards. I keep meaning to make a jig - but just use the jaws of my 30 year old workmate bench to set the line I need to route vertical and build up a platform for the lam trimmer to do it as in the pics. You have to have calculated and marked the anglea well. The side brace anchors are easier. I cut hardwood blocks and notch them to fit into the top and bottom reverse kerfed linings. These blocks are wider than the final dimensions. I route the rod slots between the centre and outer edge and then angle the inside face on a belt sander until the slots are at the right angle for the rods to connect to the neck block. I then round off the back and top edges. Hope this makes sense.

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Thanks Dave . I couldnt tell .. so there are two rods per side .. it looked like only one, and thats what I was planning to do, going from the block's top area, to the waists lower area, at an angle .. thats gives me ideas anyway !!!!! More headscratching .. no emoticon for that !!!

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"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

Tony.

On the lap slide I only used the top pair. On my other instruments I use the bottom pair to stop the string pressure from pulling the lengthwise back arch flat - not really an issue on a lap slide!!. Rick Turner uses two pairs but they converge at the same place on the neck-block - like a triangualted upper pair. He uses the centre seam capped with cf to keep the longitudinal back arch.

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Hi Dave it is getting close to two weeks since Orthus first growled I am wondering what sort of impressions you have about how he's playing in. Very or slightly noticeable? I am actually interested in how all your ladder braced creations are playing in.

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Hey I must have missed this one too!

Great work as usual, Dave. I dig your stuff.

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