Jo, you do such beautiful work! And you build them so quickly! Are the back and sides on the baroque guitar sycamore? They sure look like it.
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Jo, you do such beautiful work! And you build them so quickly! Are the back and sides on the baroque guitar sycamore? They sure look like it.
This was just sent out by the Topanga folks:
"As you may have heard, Old Town in Paramount Ranch was severely damaged. The Topanga Banjo*Fiddle Contest and Folk Festival has used this venue for...
Wow, Marty, what a find!
I've got them on my '99 Flatiron Festival. They sound much better than the J-75s which were my old favorites. I've been using them for a couple of years now.
I haven't had the tuning issues, but...
That's a lovely piece of birch!
Thanks for the tip, Marty! Very good to know.
And thanks Mark!
I think curly maple when it's been stained and finished looks like a pond of honey with a breeze blowing across it.
I built this tenor uke from a maple board I found at Home Depot last year. I don't feel too bad learning on relatively cheap big box store wood.
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I always respect and appreciate the experienced members who answer new people's questions with patience. That's generous.
Absolutely beautiful, to the eyes and the ears!
My drum sander gets a good deal of use thicknessing bracing, fretboards, and such.
Thanks David. It was such beautiful wood, but I only had a small piece. It ended up being just enough for a soprano uke. I hope you'll post pics of your curly walnut guitar when you start building it.
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Curly walnut back and sides, red spruce soundboard, Brazilian cherry fretboard, mahogany neck soprano ukulele, with Gotoh planetary tuners. Just finished. Sorry, I messed up...
This doesn't exactly respond to Br1ck's original post, but I thought I'd throw it in anyway. Last summer I came across an 1891 Martin 1-21 with its original coffin case on consignment in an antique...
That's the thread! Thank you; that was kindly done.
I have a '99 Festival that had a similar problem. The neck wouldn't respond to truss rod adjustments. I posted on this problem here a long time ago. It turns out that the builder had sanded right...
I saw it today too and just now found the ad gone. Oh well, somebody had a real good day!
Most impressive, sir!
This very thing happened to me last August with an 1891 Martin 1-21. When I first plucked a chord the sensation was very similar to what I felt the first time I saw my wife walk into the room. She...
Hi Mdj, Those are very intriguing. I'd love to hear what they sound like. Did you thin the necks at all or just leave them as they were?
So far so good!
Thanks for posting the pics. I'm looking forward to seeing this mando come back to life.
Hi Leo,
I understand your withdrawing after so much loss. I lost my wife Suzie to Huntington's Disease in October after being married for 35 years. I just wanted to say that your candor and openness...
Hi Tukanu, I saw that one too, and I think the asking price is pretty reasonable. I'd pull the whole fretboard if I were doing the project. I hope if you end up buying it you'll post the restoration...
Beautiful scroll!
My spell check program auto-corrects it to "mindless."