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Per Paul's request, here are some down and dirty (yes very dirty at this point) shots of my zirctote/cocobolo body.



Pwoolson38404.3338310185

Very nice Paul, simple soundhole treatment, beautiful wood and bindings.

Yowza! Really nice!

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Paul,

That is a beauty. What type of finish are you going to put on it? Ktm-9?

Jeff

Wow, Paul. I really like the Coco/Zircote combo. Please post some pics when you get this beauty finished.
BruceH

Paul that looks great. I like that coco binding too.

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Paul, the choice to use the coco along with the ziricote was a very good call. It looks gorgeous!

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

Awesome work Paul...

Your going to laugh when you see how badly mine matches up in the back along the end graft , Mine just didn't match like that no matter which way I set the sides.... Oh Well

let me get the heel glued in this morning and I'll post some pics, I'm not nearly as done as you are, I'm about a week behind you right now...

-Paul-

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Patriot Guitars

Paul,

Very nice combination. I'm also bringing a ziricote guitar to Healdsburg and was going to bind it in cocobolo. At the last minute, I decided to go with some of Bob C's curly eucalyptus instead. Can't wait to see that stuff.

By the way , I bent my ziricote over the weekend. I spritzed with distilled water and let soak in between layers of parchment paper for about 20 minutes. A little more springback than usual, but nothing severe. I bent mine to .080 and it bent fairly easily.

I'll look forward to seeing your guitar at the show.

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Jimmy Caldwell
http://www.caldwellguitars.com

Paul, that is so nice. Your pix show why people take the extra risk of using this stuff. It pays such high dividends. Man that's pretty.

Other Paul-- an idea for you: get some graining pens and draw in some matching grain lines on your mis-matched halves. Once sealed, I bet no one would know. Or, you could make an extra large end graft, perhaps inlaying an extra piece of ziricote set off by whatever you use for bindings. That would look interesting, and perhaps fool the eye as far as the bookmatch goes.

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What are they, and where would you get such an animal?

Interesting idea.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

Stew-Mac has some. They are a fine tip felt pen basically. They come in about three different shades. I am not very impressed with them. i can do better with a sharpened toothpick. It takes longer because of having to keep the edge very sharp but I can draw finer grain lines than with the pens. That is at least the ones Stew-Mac sells

Brock, and Michael, too-- I can't speak for the ones StewMac sells. I bought mine from Woodworker's Supply. A few years back this company bought out the J.E. Moser line of finishing products, and they carry the most complete line of such products I've seen. I got four different colors, ranging from "Golden Oak" to black. Just like a sharpie, they have felt tips w/ sharp points. The ink is permanent, and applied judiciously can really solve some difficult problems. I've "drawn" my way out of a jamb more than once.

SteveSteve Kinnaird38405.5887268518

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Thanks.. I will check them out.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

Do you have a web site on that company. Google is turning up quite a bit of noise on "Woodworking Supply"

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

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Do you have a web site on that company. Google is turning up quite a bit of noise on "Woodworking Supply"

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I think this may be it

http://woodworker.com

Awesome... thanks.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

It is the same pens that Stew-Mac carries They just have an 4th color that Stew-Mac did not have. don't get me wrong there not bad, they have about a 5mm tip and it does not want to miss shape much. The application I got them for required a very fine grain pattern. They put down about twice the line width I needed. Other than that I had no issue.

A friend of mine bought quite a high end Japanese made Competition OU shotgun with great graining on the walnut stock. He paid extra for the higher AAA grade wood. The stock had a thick finish and he wanted to give it the traditional rubbed oil finish. Out came the stripper and on to the stock it went, unfortunately when the finish came off so did the great graining! It had been put on by pen.    Needless to say he took the gun back and got a refund, even though he had part stripped the stock. Threatened them with misselling. So if adding artificial graining on a sale guitar, take care.

Colin

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