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Thank you Bill. Yes, after the finish is done this repair will be invisible and the marriage will have been saved!

Saturday - worked on some fretboard inlays for my pal Bill's uke build (I'm tutuoring him on his first instrument). He wanted greyhounds.....he got greyhounds:









The fretboard is BRW. The inlays are hard beech. The pockets for the inlays were cut using raster mode on my laser, and the inlays were vector cut on the laser. They are about 30 mils thick and are glued in place using thick (gap filling) CA glue.

Sunday - went to the NCAL meeting at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto where Frank Ford gave us a great lecture/slide show on re-fretting.....good stuff from one of the best!!

Cheers,
Dave F.

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Cambrian Guitars

"There goes Mister Tic-Tac out the back with some bric-brac from the knick-knack rack"

Thank you Bill. Yes, after the finish is done this repair will be invisible and the marriage will have been saved!

Progress on #8 which will go to the GFA this June.

Assembling a rosette in the bread board.


Cutting the channel


Cutting to depth with a chisel.


Preparing to transfer to the top.


Transferred, flooded with thinned fish glue, let it dry - now cleaning up with a block plane.

Cleaned up pretty well, now.

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Made the planking patterns for a new rowboat, a hybrid between a Rangeley boat and the Bailey Whitehall at Mystic Seaport. I'll be starting to plank it up today. Getting this far has been a LOT of work!

Finished, except for some small detail clean up, the scroll carving for the viola da gamba head.

Shaped the back bracing for the Elle-Zero Zero guitar, and got the back glued on. Decided to go with all Ziricote trim, so I planed off the Bocote headstock and made and glued on a Ziricote one.

Got a CATscan.

Made and finished a pair of loudspeakers. Mark Audio Alpair 12 full range drivers in the Pensil Reference Monitor cabinets. They sound Great! Unfortunately I won't be keeping these, they are a developmental project towards making the speakers for a reproduction of a Clairtone Project G.

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Expectation is the source of all misery; comparison the thief of joy.
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I LOVE IT!!!!!

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Bill Hodge


One does not simply, own enough guitars!

Recently finished reading Light - Science and Magic, which was full of revelations about lighting, and realized I needed a lighting upgrade for photographing guitars. I had been using something like what Frank Ford shows on his site for lighting, but wanted to go a step further in ease of use and flexibility, so I've been cobbling up some CFL softboxes with half-power/full-power switches, back reflectors and white diffusers. I'll also need to come up with something with hard lights to bring up highlight details, like silk in spruce tops, maybe a cheap halogen work light. We'll be turning a corner of our family room into a home photo studio of sorts for the guitars and my wife's textile work. My son will probably take it over for the videos he's been making for YouTube.

Pat

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formerly known around here as burbank
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http://www.patfosterguitars.com

I've just started an all Koa 00-42 that I'm planning on bringing to Healdsburg this summer. No pics yet, but I've joined and thicknessed the top and installed the rosette. Sides are profiled and bent and the back is joined. My first foray into the world of all Koa and I'm really looking forward to the results.

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Jimmy Caldwell
http://www.caldwellguitars.com

Attached a whole bunch of necks and finished our first guitar this week!

I will post a picture of the completed guitar before the end of the week when i get some nice pictures ready.

Here is a link to all the necks we attached recently: http://www.trueaxeguitars.ca

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Check out my site at: http://www.TrueAxeGuitars.ca

Trueaxe,

are you really saying that you have 13 guitars in progress before you have finished a single one???

If it is so, that must be a record.

I finished my third guitar

Haha, Yea thats correct. We finished out first one the other day and I will post pictures soon.

My partner in crime has said since the start "Anything thats worth doing is worth over doing'

So we rolled with that and just went nuts! We have a great teacher and our first guitar is sounding amazing. I am not worried that we will be able to finish these guitars in the next few months.

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Check out my site at: http://www.TrueAxeGuitars.ca