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Additional views, and maybe a step by step of it's use might be helpful. I'm not sure I get it it from this one picture...

Sure doesn't look like a guitar #1 from here. Really really nice work! Love the sound of cedar and walnut, can't beat the warm earthy tone. My first use of red cedar was also a piece of siding, and your post brought back fond memories. Spent 4 hours of contortions on the second floor of the lumberya...

Nelson, I'd be a little wary of using multiple died veneer laminations, but this one with just 1 layer of purchased, commercially dyed (I think LMI's), black veneer using 24hr Epoxy (can't remember who's) has had no problems over the past 14 years now. It has been mostly a wall flower lately though,...

Eric, Really nice. your scarf joint is nearly imperceptible. And it's pretty near impossible to hide the joint of any kind on light color woods. Just an idea, but if you were to make a butt joint instead, but have it be at 12 o'clock. Then cut your oval in two equal pieces, through the butt joint, (...

Carl's idea works well, and is easy if you have the top or back still off. just bend a short piece of a couple contrasting woods at the same spot on the bender as your sound hole location, glue them in, and then cut the sound hole. Hard part is getting yourself to ram a forstner bit into a perfectly...

Barry, I'd recommend using a laminate trimmer rather than a dremel. You can see the gaps caused by the slop in the dremel bearings on the side pic if you click it twice to enlarge the picture( I don't think you can beat the DeWalt 611, great depth control). Those guitars were done in the early days ...

Barry, Definitely. Don't know how you would possibly do so after bending. Below is a picture of another ( crotch wood) back, that pretty much sums up everything as to how. Sides done same way. Just need to figure out what pattern you want to end up with. Using the jig with a pencil instead of router...

Chuck, great to see you back! The walnut Chuck is referencing was the first of a batch of billets from one of my get rich slow schemes. Due to this guitar building addiction problem, I got to know the head sawyer for the largest walnut processor here in the Midwest. They milled 1.5 million board fee...

Thanks Charlie,
And thanks for all the time you've given to this forum over the past ten years.

The Oneida series of cyclone collectors are pretty hard to beat.

The great thing about a garage shop is that you can just open the garage door and take the leaf blower to the shop.

Bob, Your post brought back so many memories. In '75 I did an internship on the big island, and on my days off would ride on equine calls with Billy Bergan, the only horse Vet at the time, seeing places and sights no tourists ever get to see and meeting some of the kindest people I've ever run into....

Jim & Clay, Glad I checked back in, I think you are both right... When we switched over to this software I checked a number of my old posts in the library, and many of them were missing parts of peoples posts, or they suddenly stopped, when I know the original thread continued for several more p...

Pat, Your 11 fret neck really brought back memories for me. https://www.mimf.com/library/Randy_Roberts_decides_to_make_a_too-long_neck_shorter_after_shop_error__Pictures_-12-03-2005.html probably my best other screwup was completely finishing a really involved tree of life full length fretboard inla...

Eric, The white areas are where too much CA flashed too fast. You are looking at the tiny bubbles that were created when the liquid CA turned solid while boiling. The CA turning solid is an exothermic reaction and if there is enough of it still liquid when this process occurs it essentially boils th...

Bob,
Sign in and go to the "Library" section at the bottom of the page. click on Search Library ( there are two, search both).
There are a lot of threads on HD's, I just grabbed one for an example below:

https://www.mimf.com/old-lib/make_hurdygurdy_wheel.htm

I'd give my eyeteeth (or a bottle of scotch) to be at the next GAL. I'll certainly be trying to be there, it's been far too long. Us old farts can test out each other's walkers.

Andy, This may be a total red herring, and I'm working from memory of about 10 years ago but: Through a subsequently fortunate mistake, I once made a 14 fret neck for a 12 fret OOO that obviously screwed up the bridge placement. The solution to that particular problem ended up being (if I'm remember...

If there is an unobtrusive spot you could sand down through the finish to the wood, if it's BR, it will have a beautiful chocolate odor with a hint of roses to it that I don't believe any similar wood will have.

As I assume you know, if the flat surfaces are truly solid Rosewood (which the ink, age of the piano, etc., would suggest) then yes, you could likely find a market for the solid wood on any of several guitar builder sites. Even solid wood of 1 1/2 x 6 x 3/8 would find a home in a guitar as bridges. ...

Beautiful guitar Chuck! And thanks for the memories… A local mill here is one of the largest processors of black walnut in the country, running some 1.3 to 1.5 million board feet of walnut a year. By chance, I got to know the head sawyer pretty well and after explaining in detail what was needed for...