Beautiful work Drew, doesn't look like a first effort based on your pictures! I especially like your headstock treatment. How about a picture of the back? What's the scale length on that dred?
Thanks man! To be ultra-transparent, this is a StewMac kit that I just added some personal touches to. I have some hobby woodworking experience, and if you held a gun to my head I could make a playable guitar from scratch, but I wanted to start with some known quantities to understand the materials at this level. There is an A5 scratch build on my workbench, though!
Made a couple of slip-in ebony capos for bandmate's Larry Pogreba custom doubleneck steel guitar made from an old yard sale mahogany water ski. Oldest position marker is an 1803 US nickel. Double nut made from the aluminum runner on the ski bottom. Sounds 1956 with ancient teisco gold foils thru a 56 supro amp......
A break from my mandolin build to finish this tele project: hide covered face, neck pickup ring not yet installed. I still need to string up to test and setup.
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Drew, nice job, especially for a first go at it! Spencer, I’m not an armrest guy, but you’re making me consider one...
Chuck
Some of the instruments I'm currently working on...
I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.
Here's my duplicator.
Experimenting, as usual. Mandela size. So many firsts, hide glue exclusively, pegbox, bowl and all sorts of excursions into relevant and irrelevant historical instruments. Is Lorenzo Lippi still selling Roman Mandolin plans?
There once was a woodbutcher named Kemnitzer,
Whose brain I picked at my bench,
Cuz his mandos resembled sonic fine art.
While mine were like lipstick on a wrench
I think that counts as a look of great trepanation.
Hey Bill, Some situations call for fine art and some for a wrench.
Scott R.
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2019 Ellis F5 Special #464 - Facebook Build
2017 Pava A5 Pro - Autumn Burst
1987 Flatiron F5 Artist
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I was visiting a friend recently who has spent a good deal of time making knives. He had a few bits an bobs of things that he wasn't using and he passed on to me a nice piece of what he referred to as "stabilized boxwood burl" ... Apparently boxwood burl while very attractive is also very fragile. It is sold as "stabilized" in that it is infused or injected (who knows?) with some sort of plastic or epoxy resin.... It is beautiful stuff indeed!
Also finishing up a very nice piece of figured Ambrosia Maple for a Cafe Member's Breedlove:
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
A new A-style from the Muleskinner shop. Literally just strung up about 5 minutes before these shots. Sycamore back, neck and sides. Demo coming to Youtube channel soon.
More photos on the Muleskinner Instruments Facebook page.
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