R the F
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My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Sept 3, 2017 22:05:24 GMT
A strange combination of brilliant improvisation and specialist tools seem to have brought you to a very successful result - not that I know anything about any of these instruments. Well built, sir, and I hope you enjoy it!
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R the F
Luthier / Guitar Maker
Posts: 1,135
My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Sept 3, 2017 11:57:18 GMT
I AM
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R the F
Luthier / Guitar Maker
Posts: 1,135
My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Sept 3, 2017 6:47:07 GMT
Let's just say it's my thread and I have a small whitish beard.
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R the F
Luthier / Guitar Maker
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My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Sept 2, 2017 19:22:06 GMT
Anything needs explaining, feel free to ask.
Rob Why does God allow bad things to happen? As you know, Leo, bad things never happen on my thread. I can't speak for other places.
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R the F
Luthier / Guitar Maker
Posts: 1,135
My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Aug 30, 2017 19:45:20 GMT
Let's face it, we're all used to the shot of the go-bar deck from the builder's point of view
and I've recently mixed things up by introducing the drone view:
but has anyone wondered what it's like for the box, pinned down by a bunch of bamboos until it is deemed to have "gone off"? Well, here's the answer:
Pretty boring.
Released from its torture, this is how it looked:
Now I know time is limited before Halifax comes along and by then this guitar has to reach a certain stage of completion but that hasn't stopped me experimenting so I scribbled a couple of lines up by the heel end of the box:
and reached for a rasp:
I was half expecting it to speak to me and tell me what hell it had been under the go-bars but it kept its own counsel, had a quick shave and reappeared looking much recovered from its ordeal:
and even with a bit of smiling spruce shaped and bent on a hot iron (aluminium actually) to fit. A dribble of glue and a sliced inner-tube and we were glued and gagged:
with a result that looked "something like this":
Note the nasty injury to the side inflicted when I was chiselling the edges flush with the side. What a mess!
And what comes to mind immediately when you see this photo? Why, it's the bite-shaped binding that I used on the last jobby. And here it is again: the leftover artwork and the pot of ash slugs I obtained from it:
(If this is entirely meaningless, have a quick look at my last build called, somewhat embarrassingly, Howe Orme I Doing? (Still Larson About). Check the April 7th entry and following). I sanded out a row of alternate bites with my home-made drill-attachment:
and then glued some slugs into them:
with a result that looks like this:
Now then. For any young persons reading this - chance would be a fine thing - this is a real example of "randomness". I hadn't noticed how clearly the slugs were pointing either left or right so they just point the way they came out of the pot. Not, perhaps, a great result but definitely random. For any old folks reading this, here's a closeup:
Maybe this guitar should be called "Bland on Bland". (Another one for the old folks).
Rob
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R the F
Luthier / Guitar Maker
Posts: 1,135
My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Aug 29, 2017 16:25:26 GMT
Reminds me that I heard my son (15) say, "I can't be asked" the other day. As an old-school pedant always prepared to pick up on misuse of the language, I found myself trying to convince the little doubter that the expression is "Can't be arsed". He wouldn't have it. I've no idea which one "can't be a**ed" is, Brian. It's probably people like you that have confused the poor child.
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R the F
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My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Aug 29, 2017 7:38:33 GMT
It's the new me: a man of few words and efficient action. A pithy man.
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R the F
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Posts: 1,135
My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Aug 28, 2017 8:48:09 GMT
A significant cup of tea in picture one. (Glad to know you're off the beer!) It's really hard to maintain the momentum when you're interrupted all the time so well done and keep it up, ashley - when you get back to dry land...
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R the F
Luthier / Guitar Maker
Posts: 1,135
My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Aug 28, 2017 7:26:41 GMT
A real bummer, Keith. As Leo points out, I had a similar experience a while ago (involving fish glue and high humidity) but that was with the back rather than the soundboard. I won't try teaching my grandmother's brother to suck eggs but, suffice it to say, I stuck it all together again and it survives to this day! Best of luck with yours!
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R the F
Luthier / Guitar Maker
Posts: 1,135
My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Aug 27, 2017 22:00:03 GMT
Good to see you back and building - and it all looks very organised, too. What could possibly go wrong?
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R the F
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Posts: 1,135
My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Aug 27, 2017 21:54:45 GMT
Leo, if you read carefully, you'll see that it was bad luck and humidity that cocked things up, not the maker. I occasionally fall foul of lady luck and the environment, too.
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R the F
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My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Aug 26, 2017 22:47:22 GMT
So I'm not as daft as I thought I was. Thanks for clearing that up, Keith.
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R the F
Luthier / Guitar Maker
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My main instrument is: bandsaw
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Post by R the F on Aug 26, 2017 17:40:27 GMT
Excellent pithy thread, Keith. I'm afraid I arrived on this forum after your previous builds and don't know you so, when I saw the name Ambridge, I assumed it was news from Simon Ambridge - a builder of bespoke classicals in a quiet corner of Dartington in Devon. It took me a while to sort out why he would want to cut through the noise in a busy Greek bar. Must be having a great holiday, I thought. Since then I've read through your resonator thread so I'm catching on quick!
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