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Thought id start this thread for all us weekend worriers! You full timers and chime in too!
This weekend I managed to get a fretboard thinned, slotted tapered, and bound. Glued it down to the neck (By the way, them LMI fretboard clamps are awesome!) then I inlaid the dots (IN the correct place this time )








Next I installed and leveled this rosette into a sweet set of Carpathian Spruce from Steve Roberson.



After that I glued this back to the rims, then flushed up the edges. This is my first attempt at using Hank Mauels neck block fretboard extension support, so far I really like the way its all going together -- tonight the top goes on. Thanks Hank for the tutorial in the Jigs section!




For some this maybe a mornings work, for ME it was a very productive weekend..

What did you do this weekend?

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Me? completed the 9 rosettes I started Friday, braced two tops, made 58 finger braces(literally!)then went out for dinner(today's our 2nd wedding anniversary) and saw our dear friends April Verch.....

http://www.aprilverch.com/

....and her band of n'er do wells at a neat little venue a hundred miles south of here. Afterwards we(April and her band) went out to a little wee local bar that was doing Karaoke to a crowd of about 20, and just had a great time. It's a blast when some of the best Bluegrass and country singers/musicians go into a place like that in cognito and go up to sing <g>

Went to bed at around 5am...

Sunday is a day of rest.

Happy Anniversary Mario and Mrs Proulx...

Congrats!

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I am really liking the rosette. Nice clean work in the box Lance. By the way Wal-mart sells those clamps in the automotive section by the RV supplies for a little less than LMI. I love them as well. easy to maneuver the FB in to proper position.

I did not quite get finished with the SJ plans this weekend but got close. I got called in again this Saturday on a pumping unit that cratered in the field. Wrist Pin bearings failed. I had to go investigate.

My weekend wasn't as productive as you guys. Nonetheless, some guitar things happened. (Usually Sat. is for working around the Ponderosa, Sunday is for preaching...) Ok, Sat. I got to go to the February LINT meeting, where I took a number of goods for the "swap meet" part of the session. I had sliced up a batch of bindings in ten different species, and also had a good number of headplate veneers in several exotic varieties. A local yard carries some crazy wild Cocobolo which was resawed, bookmatched and joined into "Rorschach Test" headplates. (That would be ultimate zoot.) A little sparkle at this focal point really sets a guitar apart, and the LINT-ers must have thought so, too. Sold a lot of stuff. So it was a good meeting, though I was sick as a dog. Thank God for doctors and old-fashioned sulpha drugs.

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I was blessed Saturday in getting to take my latest guitar over to Ken Totushek's home to have him play it and give me some critique. I got to play some wonderful guitars while I was there, including his MadRose Osthoff, an "Ave Maria" model by Gerald Sheppard, and a gorgeous Alan Carruth guitar. Some great stuff, and Ken is an excellent musician!
On Sunday I brought the same guitar to our New England Luthiers meeting where it was well received. A lot of folks were stunned at how great a KTM-9 finish can look. Attending were OLFer's Tom Dowey, Vivian Ecker, Mike Mahar, Paul Schulte, "Yukon" Bob Stubblebine, and Wade Sylvester. Sorry if I missed anyone...
We had some great instructional demos on using different kinds of binding jigs. Oh, and Yukon demo'd how to install a K&K pickup on my guitar. A most appreciated demo!

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Had a pretty good weekend...

I braced up three backs, sanded, polished, glued the bridge on and did the initial setup on the Koa guitar. Worked on adding a bigsby to an electric for a friend, worked on a clasical for another friend and had 3 musicians over and got another order for a fanned fret.

-Paul-

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I actually didn't get a whole lot done at all, sadly. I'm still putting some finishing touches on two mold (they need sealing, but the building molds for the parlor and the medium jumbo are finished. When it stops raining I can get moving on the bending molds). Cut a few more bits of inlay for a friends' electric (should get more done tomorrow), and again, when the rain stops, gonna cut some binding channels on that baritone that I should really get around to finishing. Oh, and there's that thickness sander I want to throw together, too..

I tell ya, having to rely on the weather for major dust-making-activities (pearl dust I can just about deal with) ain't all that much fun!

Lance beautiful looking box. Looks to nice to close up. Sharp rosette. I just spent a lousy 4 hours on the band saw.

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A bunch of surface prep, pore filling, and a few sessions of french polishing. Also some hand buffing of another FP'ed guitar.

Cut wood all weekend!

Glued down and shaved the braces for a top and Went to the NEL meeting. I saw the Don Williams jig in action and a jig just like the Mark Kett jig as well as a Rebekki jig and Al Carruth's router base. Al's base has a piece of an old optical bench mounted on it which give you the fine control necessary to make a binding channel that is accurate to withing a wavelenght of light. (mostly). After the demos, Tom Knatt and Al Carruth both told me they were going to be building Don Williams jigs. There's more guitar building experiance in those two guys that there was in the rest of the room combined.

I also saw some beautiful instruments by Don Williams (I'm switching to KTM-9), Steve Spodaryk, Al Carruth, and Vivian Ecker.

Well, ok you asked, not a good weekend here. I caught a cold, and felt miserable, but tried to work through it. Dropped my completed kit guitar neck and broke the fretboard in half. So now I need to pull the old one and buy a new one. My Aqualox finish looked great except for a couple spots that must have been contaminated, so after much fussing, it bothered me so much that I sanded it all back to bare wood. Bent a walnut side and had the controller switch on full, and not variable, and since I had a cold, I could not smell anything, and scortched the side. I thought it was steam coming off of the bender. Hope I can sand it out. I then bent the other side backward, and had to rebend it. Luckily that did work. So all in all, lots of time spent, but no progress made. The good news is that I still have 10 fingers and a lot more knowledge of what NOT to do!

Jeff

Was able to glue in the end blocks on my latest dreadnaught. But that was after my family and I went to the mall hotel for a theme room stay(kids picked a train theme) c/w waterpark pass, submarine ride (no not nuclear ), buffet breakfast. I didn't get much done as far as guitars go. I did however manage to cut out a couple of necks for future guitars during the week.   I also lined up and placed a neck on a body I had waiting. So the fretboard and logo to go, then apply finish. Can't wait. Hoping to kerf other dread tonite and to start this week on a form for an OM. Moving in a forward direction, I do believe. To many things to do and not enough time to do it.

FELLAS! where are the visual aids!

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I set the neck angle on my first guitar - I'm not going to admit to how long that took. Though, I think it turned out pretty good. Then had to shape the neck a little (lot) more, funny how you think it's going to feel great, and then when you bolt it on the body it feels thick and club like. Now, it feels great though.

Was going to rub some satin poly finish on the neck, only to find that when I opened the new can of finish, that it had a whole bunch of black stuff suspended in it - it's the second time this has happened with this brand. So instead, I fired off a fairly direct and to the point email to the manufacturers about what they could do with their products in future - free product placement advice.

And finally I put a wash coat of shellac on the sound box. I had been a little worried about how the New Guinea Rosewood bindings would look against the EIR back and sides. Wow, looks like I'm gonna have a pretty guitar after all.

Sorry Lance too busy to take pics.

Not much, a three hour interview with a college journalism student.

Working way too much at my day job, 10 hr days 1 hr commute each way then saturdays to boot. My whole progress this week was done sunday morninng between 5:00 am and 10:30 am and that was, thickness sand a set of south american osage side set, cut out a neck blank, and put a coat of Z-poxy on a guitar sides. Then off to the NEL meeting. That's probably it until next sunday too!

I started the French Polish on my 2nd guitar for the 3rd time! I kept scratching and denting the finish, so I decided to sand off the old soft finish and refinish with new shellac with some Sandarac mixed in. Hopefully, the finish will be a little harder. Luckily, it will only be on the back. The sides are fine, and the top, I already glued the bridge on, so FP'g is out of the question. So my top will be a wipe on satin varnish/Poly. It is turning out pretty good.
Pictures will come when I'm finished.
Tracy

[QUOTE=LanceK] FELLAS! where are the visual aids! [/QUOTE]

OK OK OK



This is the dread back, it's bubinga and here's the top



Here's the Zircote that I won here:





Here's a new model based on the Olson SJ design I'm calling the San Jose model (this the prototype, cedar top with cedar bracing and walnut back and sides)





Here's where the Snakehead project is at, I'm actually waiting on a serial number from Novax to get this one buttoned up





and FINALLY, I got this one all ready, just waiting on tuners then I finish the setup





Is that enough visuals for you Lance???

-Paul-

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Hmm well I didn't work at all over the weekend Took a Limo out to Vancouver for dinner/comedy club/irish pub and spent sunday sleeping it off

OH hey Lance I didn't forget azbout those samples I've just been preoccupied. I'll send a tracking # this week hopefully.

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Good work Paul, Hey I think I've seen that zircote before. Did I get the sister set from Bob too?

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I had a fairly productive weekend. I did a test run on bending ziricote sides to a really tight cutaway in the Fox Bender. It worked very well (I was surprised). Only a very slight amount of raised grain on the outside of an area which was not well quartered. It easily sanded out. Two fingerboards slotted and bound, and the biggest accomplishment was closing up the box on the second of the guitars I'm taking to Healdsburg. It's Kasha braced cocobolo/sitka deep-bodied small jumbo.

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Geez Paul... thats a pretty busy weekend! All I did was drink, catch a comedy show, and go surfing... got plenty done beofre the weekend and since though!

Rehards,
Joshua French

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I would love to see it