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Hey guys and gals, just a few new pics of guitars in progress. What are you working on?



Look at the bottom of each page, last two or three pics per page.

http://www.dickeyguitars.com/dickeyguitars/AndyRga.html

http://www.dickeyguitars.com/dickeyguitars/wsdOSJ.html

http://www.dickeyguitars.com/dickeyguitars/PaulaWGA.html

http://www.dickeyguitars.com/dickeyguitars/MargaretAOSJ.html

Looking good, Bruce, nice and clean. I love Indian rosewood! You know, it's really hard to beat. Currently I'm working that set of Ambrosia maple from BobC, and also (don't throw your bending molds at me) an electric. I'm building a Tele copy. Only more so.

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Bruce,

Incredible work. Very impressive variety of different types of guitars and options.   

Jeff

Bruce,

That's a great looking bunch of guitars. I'm jealous! I really like the rosettes on the first two. I think I'll be talking to you when my MOP arrives and I start working on my next rosette.

Cheers!

John

Pretty nice stuff Bruce. Your build looks very clean and nice. I like those pointy cutaways. I have 3 guitars pretty much completed waiting for finish and I think I'm just gonna keep on building and then do the finishing in the spring. Since none of these are commissions I'm not in a real big hurry. I have completed a new design that I will start soon, about the size of a dreadnaught but not. It will be called "ND" for guess what. Keep up the fine building bud, John.

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very clean, very professional looking. Attractive choices of woods and rosettes. I even admire your go-bar deck.

John

Nice stuff Bruce! Very clean work, I feel thats very important, when a builder takes the time to make the inside look as good as the outside, you know there is pride involved.

Currently, I'm finishing the COCO LS, I'm sure you've all see this in various stages




Next is the LS Rosewood E2 which is the new name for my SJ model, this is the first guitar ive built with a 30' radius top, and the Mauel neck block









And finally is the Carpathian Black Acacia 12 fret Dreadnought.



In the planning stages is a L1 Grand parlor for Christene LeDoux, shes a folk singer from California.

BTW, Ive renamed two of my models after my two girls, Leanna is the L1 and my first child, Emily is the E2, and my second child, the guitars that were named after them, in my opinion reflect my girls general characteristics, and personality's.


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Lance@LuthiersForum.com

Lance 30" radius top, what are you using for the back radius?

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15' like normal.

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I should have asked the first time but why are you going to 30"? just curious, I've been thinking about flattenning mine some just to make neck alignment a little easier but I'm hesitant to mess with things.

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30 inch radius, not a radical change, we wanna hear how that works. Also, I tried the flat upper transverse braces on some of these, I can only think that will make neck alignment require a shim under the fretboard. I hate the thought of that. Will probably attempt the sanding board in that area..... Nerves, I'm just a bundle of nerves....

I use a flat transverse brace and sand the upper bout flat to the upper edge of the sound hole. I beleive this actually make neck alignment/attachment easier because you hae a nice flat place to attach it and the top in the upper bout slopes down in a nice flat plane to the neck joint.

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Thats it John, trying to simplify the neck to body transition. Matt Gage was the first to tell me about going to a 30' top. Bruce is right, its not that much difference, but every little bit helps.

One trick I found out on my own when fitting the fingerboard extension to the top, is to use the same technique we do for fitting the heel to the body, floss with sandpaper, I put the neck in place, and slide a piece of 180 grit between the top and the fretboard ext, gritside UP, then pull straight out, toward the sound hole, this will allow the bottom of the fretboard conform to the top.

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I?am working at the moment on 5 guitars, the image shows my first attempt of a 3-tone sunburst.

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And what a fine attempt that is! Nice work Harald   

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Nice looking sunburst. Don't know why but I've always had a weakness for sunburts. Now I'll know who can coach me when I get ready to try one.

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Arlington, VA

Way to go Bruce ... in more ways than one! Your photography is really coming along , too. Nice lighting and nice work all around.

I'm still jigging up, catching up on instrument repairs and drawing plans. A friend in Red Deer, Alberta, sent me a picture of the new kit he just bought ...

Dennis E.38380.2583217593

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That is GREAT!!!

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