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Colin North
 Post subject: Couple of new builds.
PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:18 pm 
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Just finished a fun show with some guitars old and new.
These are the new ones.
Top one is a Grand Symphony in plain Black Walnut/Lutz with flame Maple binding, EIR FB, EIR headplate and backplate. Plumb rosette.
And below is an OM in Macassar Ebony/Redwood with Bubinga binding, Ebony FB and headplate and Wenge backplate. Spalted Beech rosette.
Both necks are Wenge/Spanish cedar, tuners are Gotoh.
Finish Enduro Var.
They're both of to the Ullapool Guitar Festival in a couple of weeks to meet Clive Carroll, and quite probably several other guitarists.
Better put some new strings on them!
Been promised some soundclips.


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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.


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Nice!


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Nicely done Colin!

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Beautiful Colin!


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That's some real nice work Colin!

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Nicely done


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Lovely guitars Colin,
Looking forward to the sound clips.


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Those look great. I love the ebony/redwood!

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Bryan Bear wrote:
Those look great. I love the ebony/redwood!


Must admit I like it and it's been much admired.
Although one very good player looked at it and thought, looks great, must sound dissapointing.....

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Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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Beautifully done, nice work, hope the show was great.

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Macassar and redwood is a nice combination color-wise. Very classy looking


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Looks great! How thin did you go on the Macassar?


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Looks great! How thin did you go on the Macassar?


Pat

About 0.075"

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.


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Getting Clive Carroll to play one of one's guitars would be a real treat. One of the great guitar players of his generation.

And a nice bloke!

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Getting Clive Carroll to play one of one's guitars would be a real treat. One of the great guitar players of his generation.

And a nice bloke!

Dave M

2 actually [:Y:] bliss

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Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.
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Beautiful!!!!
Good luck showing them

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