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Thanks for all you do Charlie. Been doing a lot of lurking here, it seems that almost every time I post a reply the thread dies so lurking keeps the them active?

Me Too.

Enter me please.

John

Check out the GFS XTrem
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Xtrem-Vinta ... c_373.html
I'm not sure of the height but the ones I have play felt great.

Great Job! Please show us the neck joint.

This is like asking which car is a better investment, a Kia or a Hyundai?

Eric, Search the Old MIMF library for "Jay Harland's bolt-on mortice and tenon joint for archtop necks" When Jay first brought up the topic of a bolt on neck on an archtop the overwhelming consensus of all the old time pros was, "It has been tried and it looks bad and does not work!&q...

Search the old MIMF library for"Moll thinline archtop" and you'll find Bill's thoughts about adding block to block bracing. I did it in my build and no problems in the past 12 years.

I am a middle school band director and last year we bought two Château saxes. Tenor and alto. I'm very pleased with both saxes. Bach is not well known in the woodwinds. Brass yes. My two best tbns. are Bachs. I was told the Châteaus were made in the same factories as Cannonball saxes.

Traditionally Marimbas and Xylophones were made from Honduras Rosewood not Brazilian. in your tuning removing small amounts of wood from the underside of the middle of the bar LOWERS the pitch removing wood from the underside of the ends RAISES the pitch.

Great looking instrument. The tailpiece is the only thing that isn't yours. I'd like to see the tailpiece YOU build.

Kent'll do what you want you just have to pay for it.

It looks good in that Picture. I've seen much worse in stores.

Kent is GREAT. Last time we spoke we ended up talking about WWII bi-planes!

I'll second Mr. Stewart's recommendation. The Kent Armstrong HANDWOUND floating humbuckers are wonderful. The pole pieces are adjustable and the sounds are great. I've also used the floating P-90 with coil tapping.
http://www.wdmusic.com/kent_armstrong_h ... ckups.html

Where does one find D'Addarrio's tension tool?

Barry Daniels wrote: The extra work of building a semi-hollow body versus a chambered solid body would not add sufficient acoustic tone improvement justifying the extra work which might be as much as two times as difficult and time consuming to build. The solid body has the potential to be just as ...

Ease of manufacture equals money saved. Sound is nothing when compared to that!

See 34:00 for info on spruce block. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CfQGXuPlMg

Best Android tuner app by far is DaTuner Pro. The free app DaTuner free has most of the features of the pro version. use DT Pro to tune 80+ Middle School orchestra players every day. I have several Peterson strobe tuners and this is as good. The Pro is a whopping $1.97!!