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Gorgeous stuff!David G
Harbor Woodworks
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What size ukulele are you building this time? Nice maple. What will you use for the soundboard?Comment
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Yes, please!Comment
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As Andy Rooney once said about modern art: "I've got pieces of wood that would look better on the wall than that stuff."Comment
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A baritone I made for my granddaughter. I'll be going back to "flat" instruments after my experience carving the plates for an F5 mandolin.
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What a beautiful little instrument! What a lucky girl!A baritone I made for my granddaughter. I'll be going back to "flat" instruments after my experience carving the plates for an F5 mandolin.
[IMG]Untitled by Gary Davis, on Flickr[/IMG]
I can’t play baritone, because I get confused enough switching from guitar to uke (a d is a g?), and a guitar/uke matrix makes me freeze! Haha.
One day, when all the kids are fed and gone, I’d like to spring for a nice tenor. Everyone says to build, but I’d like a nice one.
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Another beautiful instrument set. I love to window shop on an instrument building supply website, they often have some real beauties. This one is Padauk
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The back on the ukulele above is padauk. Sides are East Indian rosewood. The back and sides WERE supposed to be Oregon myrtle but I screwed up the back and had to punt. Relegated to use what I had in my shop. My wife's uncle was a wood collector and I was able to get a fair share of his stash when he passed. I've not finished with the mandolin cause the figured cherry sides keep cracking so I'm starting on a classical guitar. Neck, back and sides will be Cuban mahogany also sourced from her uncle. Glued up a 5-piece neck blank yesterday.Comment
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I had a Takamine twelve for a while that had the back and sides made from silky oak. Neat stuff.
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There is no way I'd try to build an acoustic, but solid body electrics are pretty easy to make. For this guitar's rebuild I found a nice piece of maple on eBay that was wide enough to get the whole top out of one piece.
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I've been window shopping again. The site calls it torrified maple. I call it drop dead gorgeous.
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The sides look like a tough bend but they're lovely also
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