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Purely acoustic 16" non-cutaway Style B archtop with Claro Walnut back and sides and Sapele neck off to its new home in Texas.
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French polished custom 15" for Maxim Cormier. Black and White Ebony tailpiece.
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Necks coming together.
Different scale lengths, nut widths, a zero-fret thrown in. A good idea to write this stuff down.
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I'm a big fan of 3-piece curly Maple necks.
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18" Europa model will soon be up on Reverb.com
This one is big and deep with crazy quilted maple back and sides, a natural finish, amboyna burl headstock overlay and pickguard and a big voice!
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Making more Maple necks.
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Coloured with ruby shellac.
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Always putting together new necks. They're nice to have hanging around.
One-piece curly Maple and 3-piece Spanish Cedar.
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A few pics of the latest finished guitar.
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Ready to go!
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Coming together for @timlerch.guitarist
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Faton Macula with his French polished Paramount Wilkie guitar.
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Inlay before finishing.
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Preparing a 15" archtop for finishing.
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Getting started on an 8-string version of my 10-string design.
Very excited about this. Using local Maple and Spruce and will be giving it a French polish finish, but that's a long way off.
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Very happy to have been included in the latest issue of the local CVCollective magazine. Thanks to Jen Groundwater for the excellent article and Sara Kempner for the great photos.
Also thanks to my 10 year-old daughter Bunny for making the "corrections"😳
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Cutting up shell and gluing the pieces together. Finishing up this inlay for a custom archtop that's about ready to finish.
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Adding the linings to this custom guitar for Wayne Neville.
This will have two side soundholes and none on the one-piece Curly Redwood top.
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Making serious progress on the latest batch. Still plenty of carving to do of course.
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So lucky to have this great work space!
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