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Having looked at all the wonderful guitars people here at the OLF are making im very curious to know how many builds everyone has done.Ive only built one guitar and am starting on my second shortly :P

I'm closing the box on no.3. No. 4 will be a Wenge Baritone, I think...

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

working on # 320 to 325 now.
Whew!
I'm addicted!

Mike Collinswww.collinsguitars.com

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Mike Collins

Got the finish on #2 and #3, will attach the necks next week when I get back from Branson.

Ron

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OLD MAN formerly (and formally) known as:

Ron Wisdom

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

ONE!!!!!!

I'm still a NOOB!!!!!!

WAHAAAYYY!!

I felt that my first guitar was built in a hurry, (needed to get it out of my system) but I am going to really enjoy and take more time with the second. Researching stuff is immensely fun.

I am thinking about my build all the time at the moment, visualising the possiblities, drawing out plans, seeing what other people are doing.

Hopefully I'll do a week's building course one day...Sam Price39033.4776967593

Completed five. #'s 6,7, and 8 are under construction.

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JJ
Napa, CA
http://www.DonohueGuitars.com

25 or so guitars 3 lutes. Working on one OM, one FE19 homage and an Archlute. Plus I have an original Venere lute for repair, but that's going to need a lot of thought first.

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

13 is done - Cocobolo lutz posted last week
14 gettiing its finish - All Koa OM
15 is what I posted yesterday - Camatillo/Lutz

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Andy Z.
http://www.lazydogguitars.com

zero... that should make anybody feel good.
Evan

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http://www.NewYorkGuitarRepair.com

Just about to finish number one. Number two will be starting up around the first of the year.

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Jim Howell
Charlotte, NC

Evan
You are the master, because you fix all of our mistakes!!!!!!!

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Andy Z.
http://www.lazydogguitars.com

I'm still just lurking around here, slowly gearing up for my first build, starting from scratch...once I have some downtime...ha

[QUOTE=Evan Gluck] zero... that should make anybody feel good.
Evan[/QUOTE]

Yes Evan but what you don't know about repairing them could be written on the back of a very small stamp! It's you that has to sort out all the errors that the rest of us make.

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

134 guitars (plus a few more hundred I helped build in Maine)
46 ukuleles
25 electrics
1 tube amp
lots of scrap wood

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

one built, two very soon, three-seven in progress. Classicals, scratch built.

#16 went out the door last night a gift to an old friend. #17 started Monday.

Hey, we now have 2 old men with us.

Welcome to the OLF Michael, if it hasn't already been done elsewere, although I see that you joined nearing 2 years ago with only a handfull of posts. Don't be shy, we need more old men kicking around here. And the name of your guitars, "Lance" Guitars. Something fishing going on here

Just kidding, I'm sure you know that our great host here is Lance Kragginbrink and Ron Wisdom is the first Old Man.

Anyway, welcome back, don't be a stranger

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"There's really no wrong way, as long as the results are what's desired." Charles Fox

"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

As for me, I have built 4 acoustics, working on #5 and #6.

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"There's really no wrong way, as long as the results are what's desired." Charles Fox

"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

    I've built 460 or so acoustic guitars, a dozen mandolins, 14
archtops, 150 to 175 custom electrics and more than a thousand electric
bodies and necks that were sold separately to customers to either
replace their own or to assemble their own new guitars from.

    I'm serial numbered out to about 600 now and have alot of guitars in
the shop in different stages of construction. My serial system has
changed a few times over the years with me connecting the numbers to
their completion dates or to the sequence that they were ordered in.
Some gift or donation guitars were never entered into my serial number
sequence so they complicate the count a little, too.

    Since alot of my guitars went either to Japan or Europe, warranty
registrations were never received and an accurate count may be hard for
me to nail down.

Regards,
Kevin Gallagher/Omega GuitarsKevin Gallagher39033.5274074074

Thanks for the kind words but I have been on this forum for quite a while and I have not seen any mistakes. Just really great and inventive stuff. The instruments I have worked on from forum members have been outstanding.
Best, Evan

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http://www.NewYorkGuitarRepair.com

I have no idea how many I've built, but it's probably around 200. Many were
done with help of apprentices, and I've supervised the building of maybe
30-50 student guitars. As you can see, record keeping has not been high
priority for me. Over the past 7-8 years however I have done no building at
all, and instead turned my focus to repair and restoration. Lately I've been
getting the itch to build, along with a good deal of new ideas and will
probably start building again within the next few years.

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Eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation.

Two and a half. Well, #2 is almost complete, still in the white. I hope to start the finish during the the Thanksgiving weekend. For #3 I have the neck and fretboard ready for shaping, the top and back are joined and thicknessed. The sides still need to be bent. #4 through #6 are just piles of wood at this point.

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53% of all statistics are made up on the spot
http://driftwoodguitars.blogspot.com/

[QUOTE=Rod True] As for me, I have built 4 acoustics, working on #5 and #6.[/QUOTE]
Wow! Same here.

I'm getting close to finishing and starting on #7 and #8. It just gets better each time.

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

[QUOTE=SteveS] It just gets better each time.[/QUOTE]

Does it really? I mean: I have only made one. I haven't even cut my teeth yet in the luthiery world!!

Now again I wake up thinking; "Can I face another build?" "Do I have the nerves?"

Now and again I wonder whether I ought to just pack it in where I've started and do something else. I've got my art, music and woodcarving that needs my attention...

But somehow the more Luthiery research I do, the more I feel drawn to building guitars. Can somebody explain why?

Sam Price39033.6258912037