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enalnitram
 Post subject: My first is finished
PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:10 pm 
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Here's a video that shows progress. The audio is me playing it.



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 Post subject: Re: My first is finished
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Nice, thanks for sharing!
It sounds great - quite the moment when you first strung it up, non?
Curious what the issue was with the rubber bands...?
Loved the clothes iron for bending the binding [:Y:]

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 Post subject: Re: My first is finished
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Robbie_McD wrote:
Nice, thanks for sharing!
It sounds great - quite the moment when you first strung it up, non?
Curious what the issue was with the rubber bands...?
Loved the clothes iron for bending the binding [:Y:]

Robbie_McD

thanks! I used the rubber bands to glue on the back the first time. I think what happened, is I did a dry run. all looked pretty good. but then I put glue on and did it for real. the second time, it seemed the rubber bands had lost much of their "oomph." I didn't get a tight fit. so I took it off with an iron and re-did it with clamps.

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Yikes! That must have been painful to yank the back off.....
I use rubber - but I cut strips from an inner tube.
I also installed dowels in the solara - made the job a lot easier....

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/robmcdougall/Guitar%20Build%202/DSCN0014.jpg

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Building a guitar is an interesting journey--sometimes an odyssey--and is worth every step. Nice job, Martin, and congratulations!

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Corky Long
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Wonderful guitar - especially for your first - you've gotta be proud.

One bit of advice - not sure if you saw the thread on treating bone before using it for nuts and saddles. Raw bone has lots of fats in it which will eventually leach into the guitar, finish, etc. A real mess. The treatment is to soak in "white gas" (Coleman cooking fuel) for several days to get the fats out.

I've made a couple of nuts from bone from the grocery store, too - fun, and not as labor intensive as I feared.
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Corky Long wrote:
Wonderful guitar - especially for your first - you've gotta be proud.

One bit of advice - not sure if you saw the thread on treating bone before using it for nuts and saddles. Raw bone has lots of fats in it which will eventually leach into the guitar, finish, etc. A real mess. The treatment is to soak in "white gas" (Coleman cooking fuel) for several days to get the fats out.

I've made a couple of nuts from bone from the grocery store, too - fun, and not as labor intensive as I feared.


thanks for that tip! the bone in my video came from a pet store. are those still fatty? have they been treated?

I actually wound up ruining that nut that I made from the bone. but I was planning to use it on an electric, since it is now too small for an acoustic. sounds like I maybe will need to soak it. the nut on my guitar right now is from a bleached bone blank. it took me three tries before I got a nut I was happy with.

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Martin : CONGRATS......!!! Everyone's first guitar should look and sound so good. Now comes the hard part...! Bet you have to build another one. Take care. Tom.

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Beautiful guitar, and nice video, and playing. [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap]

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That guitar looks real nice. Congratulations.

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Beautiful work Martin.....and it sounds great!

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Beautiful. Job well done. [:Y:]
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