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I just pulled this guitar out of the spray booth this afternoon . I am going to wait until the morning until I start sanding and buffing out the finish. There was some earlier posts on Em6000 so I thought I would share these pictures. I use a qualspray QS-125WB. I have am using 1.2 mm tip. These pictures are the guitar with 15 or so coats of EM6000 lacquer with no level sanding. There is no hint of blue, one can also see how nicely this product levels. The is no orange peel, sags or drips to be found. I check the guns set up each coat with a mil gauge before I spray. I try to stay around 3-4 mils wet.

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Wow, john!
I really like the look of the wood. The back is stunning!
I can only dream of applying an unflawed finish.
By time I'm ready to buff, I've gone through a quart of lacquer and several levelling sessions.
Nice work!
Dan

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Looking good, I take it the bridge is just temporarily attached for the pictures?

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

Oh man, I'm now glad I sold you that set, I often regret selling sets like this- that said, you've done it justice! Better than I could do. Congrats!

Thanks guys,

Well I strung the guitar up this week.










Here is the tap spectrum with the strings on. The Air is at 102, the top is at 184 and the back is 252. I have mounts for side weights so I will add some weight looking to move the top closer to 180. The back is not very active, but I have the bottom brace tall so I can start shaving it to move the back down a bit. It might resonate a bit more then as well. It was a dense plate of cocobolo so I did not think I would get a very active back. All and all the guitar is starting to sound pretty good. Not as nice as my build of a Gore Medium size steel string, but with the smaller body and 14 fret to the body I was expecting some compromise sound wise. I have had it sitting with a tone-rite running. It has a rough setup now. I will get it properly setup up this weekend.

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Thanks for sharing, that is incredibly sweet!

Is it falcate? I'd have thought 152 would be very very low for a back...

whoops 252 yes it is falcate.

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That's a nice looking guitar John!

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Nice looking guitar, although I found myself drooling over your shop a fair bit.....

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This, of course, made me look beyond the very fine guitar. I recognize a cat jungle gym on the right, but what is that hanging on the wall between it and the guitars to the far left? Modern art? A glimpse of a post-Apocalyptic landscape?

Thanks all for the kind comments,

Rod, my shop is actually under my house, I live in a house on a hill with a daylight basement that is under half of the house. When I wanted shop space I learned that I had a full depth foundation running for 25 feet in my crawl space under the single story part of the house completely buried in the hill. So I dug out that portion of the crawl, pored a slab and built the shop. It has completely separate climate control and is insulated from the rest of the house. No natural light so I put in as much lighting as I could. I have enjoyed the shop, I have a clear vue dust extraction system in an insulate closet, an over head jet air filter, a separate paint booth with a spark free ventilation fan. I also have nearly a whole wall of cabinet space. It is tight but a very usable shop.

Don, once I have the instrument finished I tend to move it out of the shop using the recreation room we had for our teen age kids (both are off in collage now). The piece on the wall is a modern art "encaustic" painting. I really like it, viewing it in person it has a real sense of depth and space; post-Apocalyptic would not be a bad description.

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Lovely work, John. I like the painting on the wall, too.

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George :-)

Nice! I like the delicate bevel. Well done.

Thank you George and Danny and Joey I really appreciate getting this back and side set. Basically my all time favorite. I am glad you were able to see it used.

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Nice!