Here's the latest out of my shop. client took delivery today. EIR/Sitka "SIG" 12 string. 7 piece neck (mahogany, maple, walnut, maple, walnut, maple, mahogany) Double x braced top and x braced back. Poly finish.
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| Author: | Pwoolson [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:51 am ] |
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Here's the latest out of my shop. client took delivery today. EIR/Sitka "SIG" 12 string. 7 piece neck (mahogany, maple, walnut, maple, walnut, maple, mahogany) Double x braced top and x braced back. Poly finish.
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| Author: | RussellR [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:57 am ] |
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Beautiful as your work always is Paul  |
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| Author: | JBreault [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:57 am ] |
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Paul I relly dig that "s" shaped end graft. Looks good as always! 
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| Author: | Graham Steward [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:08 am ] |
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Hey Paul, Great looking guitar. Could you post a picture of the back of the neck? I'd like to see the laminations. Thanks
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| Author: | BlueSpirit [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:09 am ] |
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Jeez I got a long way to go. Way to go Paul...LOOKS BEAUTIFUL!! |
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| Author: | Pwoolson [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:17 am ] |
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The pics I took were all I could get in about 30 mins. So this is the best one I've got. Sorry. I think I'll be able to get it back so that I can shoot it properly. 
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| Author: | WalterK [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:26 am ] |
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PAUL... ANOTHER BEAUTY!!! really nice brother. Nice Inlay..! congrat's walter |
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| Author: | Jim Watts [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:30 am ] |
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Really nice Paul. |
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| Author: | Shane Neifer [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:55 am ] |
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Paul, that is truly a beaut!! Very nice work. I love the shape, she has a NICE figure! Shane |
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| Author: | Dave Anderson [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:31 am ] |
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Wow, That is a truly beautiful 12 string. Excellant work Paul as usual ! 
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| Author: | BruceH [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 10:39 am ] |
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Nice work, Paul. I too like the end graft. |
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| Author: | Don A [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:18 am ] |
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Paul, your guitars continue to amaze me. I think you have come up with your signature end graft. Something about the way you build makes the guitar look fluid, everything flowing in nice easy arcs. I think your rosette treatment has a lot to do with not distracting from the rest of the guitar. I'd buy it.
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| Author: | KiwiCraig [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:38 am ] |
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Beautiful , just beautiful! The whole thing just flows.I too love the end graft KiwiCraig
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:44 am ] |
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Superb as always. Great stuff. You said "Poly finish". You didn't say what kind. Water base? Normal? Oil base? 2-part? Single part? What is it? Lookos good for sure. |
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| Author: | Pwoolson [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:48 am ] |
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[QUOTE=Don A] I'd buy it. [/QUOTE]
Sorry, this one is sold. But I'd be happy to build you one.
Thanks all for the nice comments. I really appreciate the "fluid" comments as that is absolutely what I'm striving to acheive. All of the curves on this guitar match the others in some way. ie, the end graft is a mirror of my headstock shape, and a mirror of that. Cutaway is the same shape as the curve of the headstock. Curves of the bridge are the same as the headstock... It sort of makes me crazy when builders don't think of how all of the elements work together. I guess that's the designer in me. My teachers in art school drove that home on a daily basis. |
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| Author: | Pwoolson [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:50 am ] |
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[QUOTE=Don Williams] Superb as always. Great stuff. You said "Poly finish". You didn't say what kind. Water base? Normal? Oil base? 2-part? Single part? What is it? Lookos good for sure.[/QUOTE] 2 part catalyzed poly urathane, McFaddens. Tony Ferguson did this one and did an absolutely incredible job. |
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| Author: | jfrench [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:25 pm ] |
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Paul, very nice! How about a closeup shot of the tail detail under finish when you get it back for more pictures? |
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| Author: | old man [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:05 pm ] |
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Wonderful. 
Ron |
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| Author: | Steve Kinnaird [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:44 pm ] |
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Beautiful work, Paul. How did you bind the sound port? |
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| Author: | Pwoolson [ Fri Oct 14, 2005 2:46 pm ] |
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Learned that one the hard way. I bind them before I bend it. Nothing quite like trying to do a compound bend of a .090 x .25 piece of EIR. |
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| Author: | L. Presnall [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:48 am ] |
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Awesome work Paul...as always! Puts my 12 to shame!  I hope my customer never finds your website! 
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| Author: | John Mayes [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:48 am ] |
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sweet job paully. Still love the endgraft, both beautiful, and takes some skill to pull off! |
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| Author: | Kevin Gallagher [ Sat Oct 15, 2005 9:43 am ] |
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I've done very similar things with the endgraft to what you did on this guitar. Usually after a customer saw one that i'd done before and requested it. It's one of those areas of the guitar you can be pretty creative at whuile still maintaining functionality of the graft. Very nicely done, Kevin Gallagher/Omega Guitars |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:42 am ] |
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[QUOTE=Pwoolson]
Hay Paul, how about a close up of the sound port. I need to check out you binding to see if it is wraped and joined or formed whole...I may need to steal an idea or two Two sweet looking boxes by the way
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| Author: | Pwoolson [ Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:33 am ] |
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Michael, 
Sorry, this is the best I have. the guitar is gone and that's what I could get on 30 minutes notice (the photo that is). The port is bound like I do my soundholes. wrapped and jointed. I do everything on the hole prior to bending the side. Then it all bends as one unit. On particularily stubborn woods I have to insert a plug to keep the binding from pulling away from the long ends of the hole. |
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