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well gang, here's my latest offering, a short scale narrow necked guitar for a 7 year old son of a work collegue.

The Oak back & sides were free.

as was the mahogany for the neck & the walnut for the binding & bridge.

All scrounged from my local friendly shop fitter.......

The top is an AA spruce one from stewmac, (I asked for any with figure and they sent me a few goodies) fingerboard is maple cut at the 2nd, dots are turned from a rosewood offcut, and bracing was (believe it or not) the stick that a high-jump bar came taped to in the post!!!

even after the tuners go in, and the bone nut & saddle, I reckon this'll have cost less than ?60 inc post for all the bits.

cant be bad for that!!

There are 2 coats of Danish oil on here, I think another 5 or 6 will see it strung up.

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a very fortunate 7 yo indeed!!!

Looks good. That's the deepest cutaway I've ever seen.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Thats the best 60Lbs ever spent I reckon!
I have such a softspot for small sized guitars!
Cheers
Charlie

"And now it's time for THE FRUGAL LUTHIER, with your host, Martin Edwards!"

Wow 60? Thats a steal! Great job Martin!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

I build 'em all quick Hesh, it keeps my mind occupied rather than thinking about what'll happen when my boss checks and sees how much time I spend building guitars..........

yup, Ron, it's a big cutaway. I could make up a load of bull about it allowing small hands easier access to the top frets, but it's not true!!

I bent sides.

then I bent a cutaway.

then I held the cutaway bit against the side in the mould and moved it about til it looked about right.

then I cut the bits & stuck 'em together.

next one won't be so deep......

or maybe.......

some day I'm gonna have to follow a plan of some sort!!

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[QUOTE=martinedwards] ...it keeps my mind occupied rather than thinking about what'll happen when my boss checks and sees how much time I spend building guitars..........
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Hehe...it's a great way to make the working day pass painlessly and swiftly...

Very nice axe mate!