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Author:  Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:31 am ]
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Boy!, I don't know what got in to me Saturday but I got started on my next commission bright and early. Started out by first giving the shop a reasonable cleaning, then making the bridge and buffing it out, then slotted the fretboard,Radiusd the fretboard, joined the back, joined the top. I had already buit the neck and tail blocks so they don't count. Then built and profiled the rim, installed the lining, sanded the dome into the rim and lining, routed and installed the back strip and its purfling. Looked up and it was 2:30pm. not bad there must have been luthier knomes in the shop with me.






Oh by the way is this Nara awsome or what MichaelP38887.4473263889
Author:  drfuzz [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:43 am ]
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For me, that would be a good week's worth of work

Gonna be a great looking guitar, too.
Author:  LanceK [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:48 am ]
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Nice work Michael, for me, thats about 2 months worth work! You really make me relize how slow I am
Author:  Don Williams [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:50 am ]
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tsk tsk....you shoulda had the thing braced too.
Slacker.



Good days work! And it looks cool too...
Author:  Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:58 am ]
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What I did not exactly say is that when I got up early I mean early. I went out to the shop at 3:30 am. The new neiobors have a new Chow pup and its run is right behind my bedroom.

Don I thought about bracing the back but decided a cold one sounded better MichaelP38887.457349537
Author:  Pwoolson [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:17 am ]
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Good day's work! I had one like that once. Pretty much did what you did with the exception of the fretboard. Went back the next day and realized that the comission that I was building it for was for a non cutawy and I bent it as a cutaway. Siiiiiiiigh. It still sits on my shelf.
Author:  Anthony Z [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:30 am ]
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Michael -- that Narra looks awesome.

Now I understand how some builders can turn out a guitar per week. That is phenomenal speed.
Author:  L. Presnall [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:39 am ]
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Michael, congrats! Man, that's like an instant, "just add water" guitar! You should buy a chow pup for yourself and then you'd always be getting up early!!

Paul, send that cutaway to me and I'll save you all that work!

Author:  Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:41 am ]
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Good Thing I am a dog lover or It might have been hunting season juat kidding
Author:  Alain Desforges [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:15 am ]
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Wow! Talk about production. I could use a bit of that....

That Nara is outstanding!!! Zootman?
Author:  John K [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:37 am ]
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This makes me ashamed of my output. I'm heading for the shop. Great looking build. Post more pics

John

Author:  tl507362 [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:59 am ]
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Man, that is gorgeous stuff! Great job Michael! I wish I could get that much done at one time! But 3:30am, I'm just rolling over getting comfortable
Can't wait to see this completed!
Tracy
Author:  old man [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:27 am ]
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I glued the reinforcing plate to the inside of my tailblock today! That's all the lutherie I accomplished. Did work in the garden, though, and got my yard mowed and trimmed with the weed eater. The humidity here is around 70% now, so I have to pick and choose. I'm working on a solution though.

Ron
Author:  Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:49 am ]
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[QUOTE=L. Presnall] Michael, congrats! Man, that's like an instant, "just add water" guitar! You should buy a chow pup for yourself and then you'd always be getting up early!!

Paul, send that cutaway to me and I'll save you all that work!

[/QUOTE]

My 12 year old Shiba Inu is all I can handle for noe thank you

Besides the rosette on this one is a carrier in its self. 48 purfling miters on just the rosette . So I knocked out the easy stuff first, now I can settle in for retirment on the rosette MichaelP38887.7034953704
Author:  Anthony Z [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:48 am ]
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Michael the 48 mitre rosette -- is that the computer rendered design you posted here a couple of months ago? I can hardly wait to see it.
Author:  CarltonM [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:51 am ]
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Michael, that looks really good so far. But what's happened to your "accidental" thin-body? Do we get to see the "finished" pictures? Perrty please?
Author:  Dave Anderson [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:38 pm ]
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Yep,Thats a good days work!
Author:  MSpencer [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:02 pm ]
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Great work, I love that wood!

Mike
White Oak, Texas
Author:  Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:57 pm ]
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[QUOTE=CarltonM] Michael, that looks really good so far. But what's happened to your "accidental" thin-body? Do we get to see the "finished" pictures? Perrty please?[/QUOTE]

Yep Carlton, it is inches from being ready to go out the door. I thinned the bass braces just a hair and it opend up nice. It seems to gain some volume day by day. I'm doing some polish work on it and waiting on a shipment of tuner screws. I seem to have miss placed 2 This weekend I will do an extensive photo shoot of it. I think I will do that combo again but in a full thickness SJ.MichaelP38888.3744097222
Author:  CarltonM [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:04 am ]
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[QUOTE=MichaelP] This weekend I will do an extensive photo shoot of it. I think I will do that combo again but in a full thickness SJ.[/QUOTE]
Cool, thanks Michael! Yeah, your overall design for this one is really distinctive, and definitely worthy of a re-visit.
Author:  Serge Poirier [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:46 pm ]
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Good job Michael, reminds me that i'm in my 5th month in this build now but it's ok, i'm still learning right!

Yeah, you gotta love those productive days when they come by, happy for you Michael!

Serge
Author:  Bobc [ Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:05 pm ]
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Wow that is a good day's work. Can't wait to see that Narra with a finish on it.
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