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This is my latest, I finished it a couple of weeks ago.






If anyone is interested, I'll add some construction photos.

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A man hears what he wants to hear, and disreguards the rest. Paul Simon

Nice work!!

Nice!

Ooooo and aaaaaa.
Great color on the Mesquite!
Rodger, the neck looks 3-piece. Is it Mesquite as well?
The top has some great figure, I like the clear pick guard.
I like the roses. Are they scribed shell, or muliple pieces? I like the thin dark lines defining the petals.
Very nice!

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Heck yeah! That's some nice work, Rodger.

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George :-)

Fine piece of work.

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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.

The neck is 5 pieces, the center piece is mahogany and is continuous, the outside pieces are mesquite and are scarf jointed at the headstock. It's the way I do all my necks, I wrote a tutorial on it once either here or over at MIMF.
It's a nicely figured top from the Tranquil Point tree, I've had it for several years. It looks even better in person. I wish I had more than one more of them.
The inlay is all recon stone, I started this one back when there was a big scare over the Lacey revisions. The black lines are scribed and filled with sharpie marker. All the inlay is slightly below the surface and is covered with a thin layer of CA to prevent the lines from wearing off.

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A man hears what he wants to hear, and disreguards the rest. Paul Simon

I love the folksy aesthetic. Looks just right on a folk guitar.

Oh, I like that scarf joint for the outside and neck laminations and solid in the middle, that seem like a good idea. I was getting pieces for 5 piece neck laminations up lately, but I have cut the scarf joint across it all in the past. I will have to find that old post.

This isn't the tutorial, but it's a build thread that shows how I make the neck.
viewtopic.php?f=10133&t=37283
That's the guitar I had with me at both ASIA gatherings.

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A man hears what he wants to hear, and disreguards the rest. Paul Simon

Why build the necks this way? Something tells me this is going to solve a problem I've been having with wasting so much wood in making laminated necks, but my brain can't quite figure out how.


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Thanks Rodger, for the build thread link. I have a very tragic chunk of mahogany(full of metal) I have been trying to work from, this could be the idea I needed. I just can't seem to give up on this piece of wood. Its plenty big, just full of metal to work around.

Check out the link above. The second or third post shows a plan with templates for each of the neck pieces, and about halfway down the page there's a 2'-6"long 1x6 with each of the neck pieces laid out on it, and then all cut out and clamped together.

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A man hears what he wants to hear, and disreguards the rest. Paul Simon

That's a nice looking guitar. I have built three Mesquite guitars from a tree I harvested here in Texas. What is your opinion of Mesquite as a tonewood after this build?

Mesquite is hard and dense, making it fall in with the rosewoods as far as tone.
Beyond that, I think it has great potential as a tonewood. I'd like to see some nicely quartered sets in the hands of builders that are able to get the most out of it. I did mention it to the Zootman at the AISA symposium a couple of weeks ago, maybe they'll pick up a log and sell some sets.

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A man hears what he wants to hear, and disreguards the rest. Paul Simon