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This is the first time I have built 2 at the same time. These are my fifth and sixth guitars. Both are OLF SJs, Florentine.
One is an all Koa short scale, with bloodwood bindings/rosette.
The other bear claw Sitka on EI Rosewood standard scale with spalted maple rosette and bubinga bindings.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Lovely, and I love your choice for inlay on the backs, lightly contrasting but not too much so.

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You certainly have been busy!!

Looking good... is that an Adi top?

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
http://www.cornerstoneukes.com

Steve,

Looks good so far - keep us updated. Are you building two of the same model to compare the different wood combination sounds or the different lower bout bracing direction (or are they lefty/righty)? Are their going to be other differences between the two?

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Steve,

Looks like you are off to a great start. Love the woods you are using.

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

Understated elegance. I can't wait to see them, and maybe hear them? once they are finished.

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Aoibeann

Lokks good so far Steve, good idea to test some differences between the two, they sure will be as elegant as the previous ones you showed us!

Keep on going!

Serge

Very nice selections Steve.Man,I love koa and short scale too! That will be a great guitar.Both will, I'm sure.

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

[QUOTE=peterm] ... is that an Adi top?

[/QUOTE]No, it is bear claw Sitka.

[QUOTE=Dave White] Are you building two of the same model to compare the different wood combination sounds or the different lower bout bracing direction (or are they lefty/righty)? Are their going to be other differences between the two?[/QUOTE] The koa is a lefty.
The other difference is scale length.



[QUOTE=Aoibeann] Understated elegance. I can't wait to see them, and maybe hear them? once they are finished. [/QUOTE] Understaed elegance, I like that, a lot.
I'll keep posting some pictures. The koa is a lefty, so I probably won't be able to play it well enough to record. If you are in So Cal, come on by.

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I got a bit more done today.






I don't like that A. I'll see if I can't talk him out of it.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Steve,

Impressive work. Very tasteful and clean looking. They are going to make a couple folks very happy.

Jeff

As you can see in the first picture in this thread, the koa guitar is a lefty. I managed to make the ebony saddle for this guitar as a righty.
I'm understanding why there are often extra charges for a lefty guitar.....

The good news is, I was able to talk him into a rosewood bridge.

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[QUOTE=SteveS] As you can see in the first picture in this thread, the koa guitar is a lefty. I managed to make the ebony saddle for this guitar as a righty.
I'm understanding why there are often extra charges for a lefty guitar.....
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Well, Steve, thats one less thing you will have to do on the next right-handed guitar. So... you are a step a head on that one.

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Aoibeann

I like the width and color of the back purfling/binding, the contrast and clean thin solid line looks good.

[QUOTE=SteveS] As you can see in the first picture in this thread, the koa guitar is a lefty. I managed to make the ebony saddle for this guitar as a righty.
I'm understanding why there are often extra charges for a lefty guitar.....
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Haha, lefties are the bane of the Luthierie world, aren't they?

That's why I am making my own leftie guitar to suit my leftie needs....

Your builds are looking great so far!!!

Here is the new bridge.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

I built the necks this weekend. - Mahogany/maple/bloodwood on one, Mahogany/maple/walnut on the other.

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Love your necks. Nice contrast. I bet they are nice and stiff to.

Donovan

Donovan,
Yes they are stiff. They don't respond much to truss rod input, but very little adjustment is ever needed.

The neck with the bloodwood strip will go with the koa guitar that has the bloodwood rosette, bloodwood back-strip, and will also have blood wood bindings.

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Steve, you need to write a book on guitar builds...very clear, with great visuals!!!

I'm trying to decide something for the koa guitar. It will have bloodwood bindings, rosette and backstrip. The headstock is koa with an abalone S. Would you go with bloodwood dots on the ebony fretboard or abalone. I have a picture below.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Lots of people use ab and for good reason, it looks great but then so does the bloodwood. Either will work but seeing how you already have ab in the headstock, I would stick with it for the fretboard.

Cheers

Kim

I'd say abalone, but smaller. Your "S" is tastefully subtle, so I think some 2mm dots would look great. Or, leave it bare--it's hard to go wrong with basic black.

Definately the abalone to help tie it all together.

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Aoibeann

I've been working on the bath room remodel. It is hard to do that and build guitar!

I did decide to go with the abalone.




I managed to make a wedgie too. What are these things called?   

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.