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 Post subject: Sitka and mesquite jumbo
PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 5:02 pm 
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This is my latest, I finished it a couple of weeks ago.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 5:20 pm 
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Nice work!!


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 5:56 pm 
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Ooooo and aaaaaa.
Great color on the Mesquite!
Rodger, the neck looks 3-piece. Is it Mesquite as well?
The top has some great figure, I like the clear pick guard.
I like the roses. Are they scribed shell, or muliple pieces? I like the thin dark lines defining the petals.
Very nice!

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:01 pm 
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Heck yeah! That's some nice work, Rodger.

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Fine piece of work.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:50 am 
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The neck is 5 pieces, the center piece is mahogany and is continuous, the outside pieces are mesquite and are scarf jointed at the headstock. It's the way I do all my necks, I wrote a tutorial on it once either here or over at MIMF.
It's a nicely figured top from the Tranquil Point tree, I've had it for several years. It looks even better in person. I wish I had more than one more of them.
The inlay is all recon stone, I started this one back when there was a big scare over the Lacey revisions. The black lines are scribed and filled with sharpie marker. All the inlay is slightly below the surface and is covered with a thin layer of CA to prevent the lines from wearing off.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 1:13 pm 
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I love the folksy aesthetic. Looks just right on a folk guitar. :)


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 3:48 pm 
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Oh, I like that scarf joint for the outside and neck laminations and solid in the middle, that seem like a good idea. I was getting pieces for 5 piece neck laminations up lately, but I have cut the scarf joint across it all in the past. I will have to find that old post.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 5:24 pm 
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This isn't the tutorial, but it's a build thread that shows how I make the neck.
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That's the guitar I had with me at both ASIA gatherings.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 1:18 am 
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Rodger Knox wrote:
The neck is 5 pieces, the center piece is mahogany and is continuous, the outside pieces are mesquite and are scarf jointed at the headstock. It's the way I do all my necks, I wrote a tutorial on it once either here or over at MIMF.
It's a nicely figured top from the Tranquil Point tree, I've had it for several years. It looks even better in person. I wish I had more than one more of them.
The inlay is all recon stone, I started this one back when there was a big scare over the Lacey revisions. The black lines are scribed and filled with sharpie marker. All the inlay is slightly below the surface and is covered with a thin layer of CA to prevent the lines from wearing off.

Why build the necks this way? Something tells me this is going to solve a problem I've been having with wasting so much wood in making laminated necks, but my brain can't quite figure out how.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:33 am 
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Thanks Rodger, for the build thread link. I have a very tragic chunk of mahogany(full of metal) I have been trying to work from, this could be the idea I needed. I just can't seem to give up on this piece of wood. Its plenty big, just full of metal to work around.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:18 pm 
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rlrhett wrote:
Rodger Knox wrote:
The neck is 5 pieces, the center piece is mahogany and is continuous, the outside pieces are mesquite and are scarf jointed at the headstock. It's the way I do all my necks, I wrote a tutorial on it once either here or over at MIMF.

Why build the necks this way? Something tells me this is going to solve a problem I've been having with wasting so much wood in making laminated necks, but my brain can't quite figure out how.


Check out the link above. The second or third post shows a plan with templates for each of the neck pieces, and about halfway down the page there's a 2'-6"long 1x6 with each of the neck pieces laid out on it, and then all cut out and clamped together.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 4:34 pm 
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That's a nice looking guitar. I have built three Mesquite guitars from a tree I harvested here in Texas. What is your opinion of Mesquite as a tonewood after this build?


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:48 am 
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Mesquite is hard and dense, making it fall in with the rosewoods as far as tone.
Beyond that, I think it has great potential as a tonewood. I'd like to see some nicely quartered sets in the hands of builders that are able to get the most out of it. I did mention it to the Zootman at the AISA symposium a couple of weeks ago, maybe they'll pick up a log and sell some sets.

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