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Hey Casey, Luthiersupply.com carries them, and just about any other inlay replica you could imagine. I've ordered from them a few times, and their products are good. When you talk to them on the phone, it's pretty obvious they're running it off their kitchen table, as you can hear kids in the background, etc. With that said, I've always gotten what I ordered in a timely fashion. Check 'em out... The NIck Lucas inlays are about halfway down the traditional inlay page.

http://www.luthiersupply.com/fretinlaytradpage.html

I got an email from luthier supply to give them a call tomorrow. Probably order two sets while I have them treed:)

I've had a bad cold since this time last week, totally wasted week I did get my kerfed linings glued in today.

DePaule supply is great. They are a family run business, but they ship fast and they are professional. I worked with Andy Depaule on two custom inlays. Both were top notch and priced great. He has family in Vietnam, I think his wife is Vietnamese, and he has workers there who cut the shell by hand. All of it. No CNC for him!
Feel better clinch! You have work to do!

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DePaule is great! And I do have a sh-tload of work to do
One note DePaule sent 8 fretboard inlays plus the headstock inlay and the 1937 Nick Lucas I have personally seen & photographed has 6............ guess thats why you take pics.

Ok got serious about ciphering the difference between a 13 and a 14 fret, moved the bridge/bridge plate about 11/16" south
Now we can brace the top and close the box.

Have you checked out the Santa Cruz H13? They shifted the sound hole and X brace also.

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I'll check it out. I left the sound hole alone but definitely had to shift the bracing.

What sort of changes are you hoping to gain by going with a 13 fretter? My curiosity is peaked.

Don't have a clue Possibly a little more of the 12 fret rumble/growl/balance, with a close to normal neck. #1 gets played a couple hours a day, I've done more fingerpicking the last couple of months that the previous 30 years......

What is your scale length?

I believe the H13 is 25.375" and L-00 14 fretters were 24.75. The idea on the H13 is the longer scale length + dred body depth + 13 frets shifting the bridge deeper into the lower bout = a powerhouse of a small guitar. I really have no idea if this works or not (never played one!), but I do think that's a reasonable summary of the design decisions.

Randy its 24.750.

I checked out the H13 and its a real nice guitar, great sound, love the pyramid bridge, but its evolved into a different animal compared to a Nick Lucas. Like you said 25.375 scale, 21 frets (moved the sound hole south:) Slothead...... I would be interested in trying to build one of those sometime.

I got some poster board and really worked on getting the bridge/bridge plate in the right spot and then the bracing was a piece of cake. I used Stew Macs fret calculator, it has length on the low E 24.958 (+ or - .030), high E 24.836 (+ or - .030)

Looks good, glad to see you're back at it

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Carving bracing, going to close the box this weekend. Vintage Gibson style........

Need to shape on the bandsaw, then make a box. This would be a box except for my lovely wife and 500 square feet of tongue & groove pine flooring I'm dragging

Make a box, bind said box, then were off to the neck, 13 frets.....

I suppose telling you I still use popsicle sticks puts me firmly in the Jurassic era (on the odd occasion of me building an acoustic). I just now got to read the entire thread. I love a Nick Lucas, and yours will rock with those maple sides and back


Dave

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Thanks, one can only hope Your name is ringing a bell have you been to any of the Woodcraft get togethers?

Lol, been to all of them, I take the pics for TDPRI . Wouldn't let me register CrazyDave911 here it seems , but yeh, we know each other
Can't wait to see the neck on this one

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Thats funny I'd have never guessed with out the crazy in front of the Dave

Going to have a box today, actually two, the White Oak D and this, and then its neck time.

Sweet!

Yeh, the crazy kind of takes care of itself when you see my guitars

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Did some minor brace carving/tweaking, trimmed the top to shape and glued her on. The recent rash of glue threads pushed me over the edge, & we are trying some of Tools for Working Wood High Clarity 192 gram HHG, I have been using Behlen 167 gram. Any way have a box:)

Box, sanded, ready for binding.

Looks great! I like that rosette.

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I like it even better now that it has a box to go with it

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Routed and purfling glued. Not much to these simple black and white, front and back. Hopefully I can get the bindings bent and glued up this week, need to hit the neck, fingerboard, and....start the burst:) I really like the shape of these.

Looking really nice Greg, you've got oak down

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