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Spent this morning doing some fettling on a fretless conversion. Whoever did the initial job eschewed the usual practice of pulling the frets and filling the slots. Instead, they opted to file the entire crown off every fret, leaving just the tang in the slot.

I have no idea how long this took whoever did it. A day? A week?

It sure looks cool, especially with a freshly re-filed surface - which was necessary as the bass now experiences fret sprout on the surface as well as the edges of the board.

Like that Josh, nice position markers they make.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Neck on, frets happen tomorrow -

Really nice work Josh and Michael!!!

Let me tell you a story…












Brad


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Very cool Brad!

Thank you, Brad - don't tell - SHOW!
Excellent work.

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Tail block being glued to the sides for the mandocello I'm building.

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

Love the bricks Jay.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Those are the finest, highest quality, vintage, luthier-grade bricks lovingly collected from a back yard patio project and cut to exacting tolerances for a multitude of uses in the shop. I have a set of six of them.

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

I call them gravity clamps

I have quite a few of them, some people call the handplanes.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Tone bricks!

Spalted maple rosette...

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Steve Sollod (pronounced sorta like "Solid")
www.swiftcreekguitars.com

Wowsa!
Endgrain?

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Nice!

Spectacular!

Neck reset on a late 50s German archtop. Refret prep on a Takamine. Not pictured: bridge reglue and bracing repair on a Maton. Pass the scotch.

Karen and I drove up to North Vancouver yesterday to collect this. After finishing 60+ instruments it was nice to hand off some green-energy and get back to doing what I’m good at -

M

Stunning Michael, just lovely.

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

There sure is some fine work happening in this community! Inspirational stuff.

Great guitar Michael, you pulled off the headplate inlay perfectly, those salmon are floating over the rock bed. The rest of your inlay work, perfs and rosette are not too shabby either. Love it.

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Brian R, Wood Mechanic
N8ZED

Nice job lining up the grain between segments.

My Go-Bar Deck...

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Steve Sollod (pronounced sorta like "Solid")
www.swiftcreekguitars.com

Cool! I use one of those too.

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

After bending the maple bindings in my side bender, I'm using my bending iron which has aluminium supports held by hose clips on to try to get them to follow the more than 3/4" rise and fall of the curves in the cylindrical back of the guitar.

Someone posted a pic of a similar arrangement with the bending iron on the forum, but the name escapes me.
Anyway thanks for the tip, I couldn't do this without it.
It's so much fun, I'm thinking of switching to plastic binding next guitar!







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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.