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Wow Hesh, So sorry to hear about this. What a horrible experience. Hope you recover from this and get one with the packing and moving.

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Tracy
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Flipped burgers, fried up a ton of seafood and onion rings and only made it to the shop to fill the humidifiers.

Gary

I've been on the road since Thursday night and haven't gotten anything done guitar-wise this weekend. A lot of prep stuff as been happening the past two weeks as I have put a 10" bandsaw into place and also a Grizzley radial arm drill press. The bandsaw is the two wheeled Sears and Sawbuck number and works like a charm after a careful setup. Its only drawback is that it uses 70 1/2" blades that aren't that common. I've obtained a couple of Olsen 72" blades, lopped out an inch and a half and brazed the joint to good success. Using a homemade jig and Woodcraft solder/flux for this. The useful trick is in using the right solder as plumber's silver solder is generally not good enough. The drill press now has an additional wood table attached with fence to facilitate using the Wagner Safe T Planer. The table is shimmed to make it perpendicular to the quill. Also sketching up my ideas for a lap steel and I have decided to do it in white oak a la Stickley in the Arts and Crafts movement. This will be a fun one.

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Jim Howell
Charlotte, NC

Forgive me if I screw up the picture posting here. I finished scraping the glue off the body from the binding glue up.


Then I went to preparing my top for the Everett class. So I made some bracing blanks and made a deflection jig.
I also tuned up my Delta drum sander and thicknessed a Sitka top.

P.S. - Hesh - That sounds like a pretty stunning experience to come face to face with death like that. I can imagine it'd rattle most anyone's nerves. Hope you're OK.

Wow, Hesh. That'll take some time to process. I've been present at the deaths of relatives, but what you saw was a while different thing.

I worked on my table saw too. Three years after buying inserts, I finally got them cut for zero clearance. Tuned it up, made a tapering jig. Sure works swell now. Did some of the finish work on the dread I'm building, got inlays in the fretboard.

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now known around here as Pat Foster
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Finally got the abalone inlay all done on the style 45 D I'm making, just a time consuming job, mostly in the mitered seams. I was lucky with the top, it fit so snug I able to just brush on a little CA and not have it get anywhere near the spruce. Glad to have that done, I don't see how anyone can charge enough to build one of these things. This one is just for myself, I'm going to charge myself a ton. It's very time consuming. I'll have a hard time collecting...

Also got a billet of White spruce cut into tops, very wet so it will be some time before I can use it, looks good though. I think I'll just buy individual tops in the future, my re-sawing skills are lacking something, skill perhaps...

Best
Bruce

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Bruce Herrmann
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

let's see, went to work, flew 2 gunshot wound patients.
One of our pilots brought in his '76 D-35 for me to evaluate. He had a buzz when he changed to light strings. Frets were pretty worn out and he had quite a bit of neck upbow...relief at #12 was probably .030+. Of course, it has a non adjustable truss rod. He had been told it needed a neck reset, but I didn't think so. It has a low saddle, but the action was probably 3/32" with the relief, so I think he has dropped the saddle some because he is a finger picker (a good one, too). He is considering letting me work on it, but I told him to call Martin and tell them what was going on with it, and see if they thought it needed a reset. He may opt for me to work on it, and if he does, I am sure I will be asking some of you all about compression fretting
Then, I came home and toned the top on a hoduran rose/adi dread after sanding down all that dern z-poxy.

Hesh, don't let being a witness to all that bum you out. At least she got the opportunity to live so long where so many do not. Seeing a child, with their whole life in front of them, in the same situation is what bums me out. Do what I do....go build a geetar. Gets your mind off things and is good therapy, at least for me anyhow.

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Brad Tucker

Sorry Hesh thats a bummer I hope your o.k. with that now .

well I finaly shaved a bit more off the braces on the top of my first solo build , the top has been just sitting there staring me down from the bench for about two weeks , just daring me to, go ahead, go ahead , take more off,take more off ! finaly grabbed er by the sound hole and I let er have it ! took a bit more off the height of the x brace and a bit more scalloped on the bass side.... got a bit more rumble now with softer taps .. I think thats about it until I try it glued to the rims ! Drilled the center hole in my radius dish .... began making a jig to hold the sides stable while I radius the edges .. cut the pieces today at work ... maybe I will assemble it later ... Jody

Hesh, I hope you are ok, too... what a shocking story!

It's neat to see what is going on all over the place.

Here is my contribution: The assembled rim of my myrtle bodied OM. The tail block has an inlay of lacewood. Just for fun.

Here is a couple pics of the L-00 that I'm working on .
I filled the pores with Z-poxy and I'm going to start
spraying nitro tomorrow.

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

Dave, that guitar is going to look great! Beautiful wood and headstock. I worked on my first cutaway bevel this weekend. I did an inlay on the top around the bevel but didn't like it after looking at it so I did another. Man, was that tricky. It came out OK, a couple tiny things to fill. I also put a nice camphor burl purfling backstrip into some really pretty EIR. The burl should darken up to be close to the reds in the rosewood. That's koa up the middle.







I finished up a tail inlay the other day too. Not technically the weekend, but I liked how it came out.

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Burton
http://www.legeytinstruments.com
Brookline, MA.

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I went fishing at Sawmill Lake in Oliver BC (kind of sounds wood working like doesn't it?)

The ice is off The ice is off

davido

I have an issue of Shop Notes that has directions for just such a mallet, Im in the process of building one for a friend right now... to use for flooring....
Was SN your inspriation for that mallet?
Nice job the choice of woods look amazing!
Cheers
Charlie

So far, nada. Whaaa!

Mike

Charlie,
Yes it was! I saw it in shop notes, and didn't feel like making the ply, so I just used some other woods I had on hand. The measurements don't add up exactly, but close enough. It is a great mallet, and a lot of fun to make. It's good practice for carving necks! Good luck, and show us pics when your done!

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