Hi all,
This is number 7, a fourteen fret OOO with a very large cutaway. I was feeling very proud of it, until I had a glance and the Forster post. Has the man no shame?
In any case, for all its flaws, this one plays like a dream. I actually got started on this addictive hobby because of a four-thousand dollar Martin I was playing in Guitar Center about five years back. It was only $3500 over my price limit, so I had a look and figured it couldn't be that hard to build a little wood box with a stick on one end. What can I say? When I'm wrong, I'm definitively wrong.
On the other hand, this one sounds better than the Martin did.
The specs:
* Adi top
* The rosette is rosewood offcuts from a previous guitar, and some plastic "turquoise" I got from LMII.
* Indian Rosewood body and bridge
* Peruvian walnut neck, with a bloodwood and white fiberboard center laminate
* Madigascar rosewood fingerboard
* Koa headplate
* EVO frets, mother of toilet seat markers.
* Bloodwood binding (I like the way it looks, but man that stuff is hard to bend on a pipe. It twists and spirals and breaks and generally acts like it doesn't want to be on a guitar.)
* The shell is zipflex. I know it's cheating, but my skills are still rudimentary.
* B-Band pickups. (The pickups are ok, but no better than K&K, which are cheaper, less intrusive, and don't require a bloody big hole carved out of the upper bout.)
Thanks for looking,
--Paul
Number 7
Re: Number 7
Good one Paul, I really like the body shape and rosette.
Col
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Re: Number 7
Hi Paul
Nice job keep up the good work
Regards Steve
Nice job keep up the good work
Regards Steve
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Re: Number 7
Nice job Paul, did that "turquoise" flush back well and end up nice and level with the spruce?
Jim
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Re: Number 7
Hi Jim,
Yep -- the faux turquoise is very easy to work. I didn't have any trouble getting it level with the top.
I'll probably try the real stone next time, but it is very likely to be more difficult to work than the plastic was.
--Paul
Yep -- the faux turquoise is very easy to work. I didn't have any trouble getting it level with the top.
I'll probably try the real stone next time, but it is very likely to be more difficult to work than the plastic was.
--Paul
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