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Thanks Trevor,

I did a tap spectrum all strung up and I ended up with 92, 172, 214. The guitar is really starting to sound good as I get it set up properly. It is very responsive light strings. All of the notes ring clear. All and all I am very excited.

It is a guitar now. I still have some set up work to do. But I like to wait a couple of days to dial it in. I will get a video up but wow it is loud, wonderful sounding treble strings right to the highest note, deep base. Pretty even tone across the strings. This is the first time stringing the guit...

I have the bridge glued on so I bolted on the neck and took a spectrum sample. The helmholtz and the top amazingly came out at 95 and 180, The back is down about a semitone from where I hoped at 215 Hz. I can put some spruce into the brace scallop to raise it a bit. But I will wait until after the b...

I have a gun just like the one you have in the picture. Mine is a QualSpray QS-125WB. It is a small gun and I find it perfect size for spraying an instrument. Also I was able to get buy with a reasonable sized compressor.

I will be there but it is only an hour drive for me.

I am still a few days away from being able to do a final sanding and buffing of this guitar. I am really getting impatient so I roughed out a nut, checked that my geometry is still correct. I was really pleased how the Em6000 sprayed on. I had each coat around 3 to 4 mill wet. I leveled the top at 6...

Check the nut slot to make sure it is breaking on the edge and is sloped back. I have heard the sitar like note when the string is not sitting right in the nut slot. Given that your issue is only with one string I would focus on the string and where it contacts the guitar. If it is going away frette...

You can see the fiber. Next time I will have the top veneer a little thicker. Note the weight right around 22 grams with more sanding to go. Exposed carbon fiber looks like hightech and calls for a higher number on the price tag! :lol: :dri I am starting to get use to it and you are right I I do no...

Ernie, I like to use refined linseed oil, from an art supply place for my SS bridges. It is the same stuff they but on canvas before painting. I just wipe a little on. I got the new GAL issue, a great issue. Greven's article was one of the best in a long time, and the issue had part 1 of a Trevor Go...

I was surprised how simple it was to make an ebonizing solution. I did nothing with nails or rust. A clean new 0000 steel wool pad a quart of vinegar and a few days wait. Here is a sequence of photos making a carbon fiber reinforced bridge for the falcate brace guitar out of walnut. Unlike an x-bra...

I was surprised how simple it was to make an ebonizing solution. I did nothing with nails or rust. A clean new 0000 steel wool pad a guart of vinegar and a few days wait. Here is a sequence of photos making a carbon fiber reinforced bridge for the falcate brace guitar out of walnut. Unlike an x-brac...

The walnut I have will ebonize just fine, that is it has enough tannin in it. I started two batches of vinegar/steel wool one with an absolutely new and clean (I worked to wash out any oils) steel wool pad and the second with a steel wool pad I rusted with salt water and then washed out. The streak ...

I really like when I can really see the wood. I started the zpoxy fill on the body and neck.

I have two solutions started, one vinegar with clean steel wool, for the second I started to rust steel wool. I will add vinegar after it rusts. We shall see in a week or so. I have a lot of scrap and my wood looks the same as in the picture, so I am hopeful. I can try tree bark or black tea as a se...

First the important things in life. My best shot from the tee all day and fathers day at that, my son followed me. He had to show me up :( http://www.harvestmoonguitars.com/Gore_SS/ninth%20hole.jpg I cut an installed my logo so the body and neck are finished! This was mt best work with the logo. I a...

Thanks Trevor,

I will give the rusty solution a try. I have time to experiment and to make it right.

Thanks Ernie I will use the dye as you suggest.

I am getting closer ... a few more pictures.

He got two special guitars! The one you made is gorgeous! The cakes look good as well.

Thank you Allan and Ernie and all who are looking, I am closing things up. I spent some more time on the neck profile so it does not look so chunky to me, also it feels good in the playing positions. http://www.harvestmoonguitars.com/Gore_SS/goress%20(431).jpg http://www.harvestmoonguitars.com/Gore_...

Looks great!

With my slow build schedule the difference between a falcate top and an X-brace top was not that large in terms of my overall schedule. The biggest difference for me, ignoring the the time it took to make the jigs and forms for the laminating the braces, was the multiple calendar days while waiting ...

Thanks for looking, With the fret board glued on I made and glued on a heal cap. I put a strip of sandpaper on the rims so that I would have a clean line at the bottom of the cap as the body has a bit of an arc across the heal. With the cap on I drew out a group of layout lines on the back of the ne...

very nice! I marvel at the clean work hand cutting the rosette channel and even using the scroll saw for the heart sound hole.

Thanks guys! Well I am getting closer; I glued up a stack of veneer and white and black fiber for the head stock. I pressed it in one operation using LMI white glue. The book suggested epoxy, but given that this was fiber sheets I did not think that it would be relatively stable with the moisture in...

Thanks John, I started the head stock design to day ultimately making a mock up to test my layout. The book suggests a tuner layout that allows a straight run across the nut to the tuner post. Not having the break at the nut, while intonation by the nut will be the same, will have the feel of a long...