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John That is absolutely beautiful. Nice choice of woods. I'm building a similar guitar right now. I copied the profile from my Taylor 612 and used lacewood for the back and sides.

Al

John there you go - once again raising the bar on excellence. She's a beauty for sure!    

Beautiful work John and nice wood Bob!

Thanks for the nice words guys. It's always encouraging.

Yes that is Tony's finish work...top notch as always.

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Wow! I thought all those Handeyism's had unbalanced your faculties. If your crazy, it must be a real good crazy!
Very nice work!

B.S.
(Oh, and thanks for the links to Jack's work!)

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[QUOTE=terken] Is that a Tony/poly finish? TJK[/QUOTE]


Sounds like a new product..."Is that laquer? No, tonypoly..."

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Great look'in guitar John, another polished output from a fine craftsman, well done

Cheers

Kim

Beautiful. I love it.

Mike

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It's really cool, John.

Really Nice!!

Mike

Very nice, John. I wanna play it.

I would second much of what's been said about this guitar. I also particlarly like the way you did the purfling around the end graft, and also the itty bitty truss rod cover. Nice body shape, too.

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John, thanks for having mercy on us dial up guys.
But well worth the brief wait--that's a beauty!
Interesting comment about the sound "right out of the box". Sounds like you are agreeing with John Greven.
I was perusing an old LMI catalog where he was saying that Lacewood--brand new--sounded like an old played in Martin. These kinds of comments make one want to try some of that stuff....

Steve

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[QUOTE=Steve Kinnaird] John, thanks for having mercy on us dial up
guys.
But well worth the brief wait--that's a beauty!
Interesting comment about the sound "right out of the box". Sounds like
you are agreeing with John Greven.
I was perusing an old LMI catalog where he was saying that Lacewood--
brand new--sounded like an old played in Martin. These kinds of
comments make one want to try some of that stuff....

Steve[/QUOTE]

It DOES have that vintage tone to it. I had read that from John a few years
back, but I just kinda thought that that is the kinda tone John is at a
disposition to lean to. I'm a believer now! Really is a great tonewood.
Pretty easy to work with as well.

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I can really get into the looks of your latest JM. Very nice & Very eloquent....

John,

A real beauty. Now, how about some high res. pictures for those of us that can deal with them!

Jeff

Another beauty John! That backstrap on the headstock looks soooooo cool!

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

[QUOTE=Jeff Doty] John,

A real beauty. Now, how about some high res. pictures for those of us
that can deal with them!

Jeff[/QUOTE]

Here is one....

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John Mayes
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Elegant curves, everything flows beautifully together, great wood... in short; I hate you!

Just kidding, that is some seriously nice work, I salute you!

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You rock John. That is sooooo nice.

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Hi John, really beautiful guitar, I was wondering how hard is the lacewood to bend & work with "as far as heating & bending the sides, purfing and such" if you don`t mind me asking the tempretures i need to look out for when working with lacewood sides & purfing. thanks & I hope if eat enuff LMI glue i`ll be able to turn out a work of art such as your guitar. www.mattenascarart.homestead.com

I bent it like rosewood. Plugged in the blankets (yes plural..Two blankets
work much better than one, although you can get by with one..you get
more springback too) and when they reached 240 started the bend.
Finished the bends off, and kept it at 300-310 for 3-5 minutes.. then let
cool down for 45 minutes at least.

But the real secret is the glue. You have to eat lots of titebond, and sniff
lots of hide glue.. then you start to see the world through the right eyes,
and lutherie all makes sense!

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