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Disclaimer: All authority on heaven and earth says don't do it like this. Psssst, don't tell my son.
Hey, I finished before nine.....

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Very nice Bruce!!!!!

Your clamping method is very cool too and that puppy is not going anywhere.

Great job my friend.

Bruce,

Is this the one for your college-aged son?!?!

If I recall, that would make it an Olson SJ shape

The rosewood looks great, and what seems like a cedar top has beautiful
color as well!

Are the bindings maple or koa?

Looks wonderful!
Peter

Love those inlays!

WHen I saw the black and red cords, I thought you had jumper cables connected to it. Glad you cleared that up in the last picture. Nice lookin guitar!!

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Ken H

Yep, after Keaggy's first Olson.

1983 by Jimbo.

Flamed Maple from Bob in Tuscon.

That is Cedar from Timbertone.

Dalbergia Latifolia from LMI.

Honduran neck, wood from Honduras.

(The other half of this neck block was turned into the OLF FOLK neck by John Kinnaird. Bosom buddy necks.
Tim McKnight is working the OLF FOLK into his schedule as we speak.)

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Lookin good there, Bruce.  When I saw the first picture, I thought, that'll never launch, there is a wall in the way.  I thought you were gonna try to shoot it through that towel with the rubber bungee cords.

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Bruce,

Great looking guitar!!!

Love the maple bindings!

The inlays are real nice too!

What’s the rosette made of?

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Bruce...looks terrific. 

Great shape & great warmth in the wood combo.

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Dave
Milton, ON

Thanks Guys,

The inlays are D45 style from Austin Texas.

I used it on another guitar and my son drooled over it.

Simple and elegant.

The Rosette is my first Abalone and I love it. I took some Martin D28 triple style nitro purfs and made this up to fit the abalone

the wood combo is really striking in person too. I think I broke four sets of binding before getting close with these which have wee splits, but at some point you gotta build a guitar.....

McFadden's Nitro over Epoxy fill, should have done the second coat of fill, it needed it. Not doing it required all thirteen coats of thinned nitro. I'm ready to bump up to a larger capacity gun, both in cup and nozzle. Some of the guys are spraying straight using automotive guns and nitro straight out of the can. Something to do with viscosity.... Why don't we hear that word when referring to lacquers?

Time to go HHG a bridge on, mo' pics later, but they'll be in the portrait studio....

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Simple, classic, elegant.
Good-looking guitar there, Bruce.
And I'm guessing it's really light-weight,
seeing the way you had to tie it down.   

Steve

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Well folks, I'm letting the neck settle in overnight, but it's strung up and singing.

No pics, but I will say one thing, this SJ body is a looker. All the curves in all the right places.

I usually string up with Martin 80/20 mediums. But will swap those out for the D'Addario Lights in a few days. Sounding pretty good so far, you know how brassy bright 80/20's can be at first.

I'm happy. Tomorrow it gets a set of K and K's and we'll plug it in a bit. Yahoo, number six lives.

Oh, I just love gluing on Bridges and necks, it means you are nearly done. The hot hide glue squeezed out all the way around as I brought up gentle pressure on the one Klemmsia and the two C-screw clamps on the wings.

The hardest part of installing the bridge is getting it concave to 25 feet. Works a guy's fingers tired sanding......., but now it's done.

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Wonderful, Bruce!

I would love to hear it if you are able to do that at somepoint - maybe with
those high fashion photos when they're ready.

Congratulations!

Congratulations, Bruce!