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Bingo!!!!! I wont ask why MichaelP38814.6921412037

Funny though it took two inlayers to get it right-
Craig L

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Darn ya all can't say i didn't try!

I figured that it would be an inlay artist that got it. I don't know and may have missed it on his site but I am guessing he contracts the inlay. Looking at his gallery I see too much Grit and others, and I believe, Paul I see some of your work there as well MichaelP38814.6999884259

[QUOTE=1bordeaux] Sheldon Schwartz.
I've done some work for him... some days I don't know why![/QUOTE]

Yeah, I just checked out his website. Very cool guitars.

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Scott Thompson
Port Townsend,WA

"In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room"
-Billy Bragg

Sheldon studied from Grit during one of Grit's few workshops he does only in Canada, but his pieces for the most part are his pieces. He, like Grit makes an amazing piano tone guitar as well. I assumed his basic guitar building was putting him ahead of his inlay time so he needed to start contracting some out.

Cool that you do some work for him Paul. I once contacted him to do a guitar for me to inlay, but his two year wait was a relative turn-off.
Craig L.

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[QUOTE=MichaelP] I don't know and may have missed it on his site but I am guessing he contracts the inlay. Looking at his gallery I see too much Grit and others, and I believe, Paul I see some of your work there as well [/QUOTE]

Sheldon actually did most of his own inlays.The "grit" looking inlays were done by Sheldon. He's a very gifted artist.
He needed help with them as his waiting list grew.
(I think most of us who build would love to have a two year waiting list!)

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Paul Bordeaux
http://www.bordeauxinlay.com

What, you guys don't have a two year waiting list?

I sure do. When a customer asks the delivery time, I just say "2 years, that's how many mistakes I have to fix inorder to get it right".

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Hey Rod, what's a customer? I've heard of them, but I don't think I've ever had one.

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

Well you got a website. I had to build a guitar in order to get one of those.

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"There's really no wrong way, as long as the results are what's desired." Charles Fox

"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

[QUOTE=Rod True] Well you got a website. I had to build a guitar in order to get one of those.[/QUOTE]

Actually, so did I. I traded a cutaway dred for the design and support of my website for 6-8 months.

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

Dang -- I am late ...I would have actually finally gotten one....   Here's one of my favourite Schwartz inlays....

Next time tell me when there a guess off - I always miss it especially would have liked that SJ mold being a newbie
Cheers
Charlie

[QUOTE=charliewood] Next time tell me when there a guess off - I always miss it especially would have liked that SJ mold being a newbie
Cheers
Charlie[/QUOTE]

Charlie I will throw another one up early this week and off the mold again MichaelP38817.5645949074

Thnx
I'll keep an eye - Cheers
Charlie