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Brad Goodman
PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2018 2:56 pm 
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The idea for this guitar started out 45 years ago as shown in this picture of myself (on the right) and the other guy I worked with Barry ..
I always like that guitar and wanted to build another one so here it is…
Cedar top from Alaska specialty Woods
Padouk back and sides with sapwood ( Creamsicle) mahogany neck and Satinwood purfling
J-185 shape- 25.4 scale
Sounds incredible right off the bench!ImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImage


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sdsollod
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Very cool blast from the past. I see you went with a conventional style bridge for this one...

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Chris Pile
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Dang. That's nice.

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Did you cut the rosette pieces? Well done. Love the padouk and shape

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Cool guitar.
The word that comes to mind is “groovy”

Out of the whole build I’m most covetous of your finishing skills:)

Also... I bet it has a great sound! Padauk feels and sounds great imo


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Brad Goodman
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Ruby50 wrote:
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Did you cut the rosette pieces? Well done. Love the padouk and shape

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Yes, I cut them with a fret saw.
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Brad Goodman
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Out of the whole build I’m most covetous of your finishing skills:)

Also... I bet it has a great sound! Padauk feels and sounds great imo




Yes, it does sound really nice-very even up and down the fretboard with an incredible bass and sweet trebles as well.

I have been doing the Nitro for a long, long time, I need a break from it.....

I have a classical coming up soon that I am going to French Polish and another couple of steel strings that I am going to
do brushed varnish.

The Padauk is really nice, however the dust is pretty nasty and it tends to bleed if your not careful... The sides bent like butter.


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I guess it is no longer the age of the droopy moustache!
Looks like a great guitar, and it is fantastic to recreate a memory.
You guys were hanging around with some cool looking instruments back in the day - are those adjustable individual saddles? And you looked pretty good yourselves!
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Brad Goodman
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Mark Mc wrote:
I guess it is no longer the age of the droopy moustache!
Looks like a great guitar, and it is fantastic to recreate a memory.
You guys were hanging around with some cool looking instruments back in the day - are those adjustable individual saddles? And you looked pretty good yourselves!


Yes, those are adjustable saddles-turned out to be not a great idea.... they were glued down and would occasionally pop off while playing.

It is much better to take a straight saddle and file the intonation into it, like almost everybody does.
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jfmckenna wrote:
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that is funny!
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Man! That rosette took a lot of work! ...and it is flawless.

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