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Post by vikingblues on Dec 23, 2014 7:24:33 GMT
What a very fine looking guitar has developed - a fascinating thread to have followed and what a huge amount of hard work has gone into the build.  That's a good technique using the piece of the B string as a mobile saddle point - a neat solution. Mark |
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Post by scotch on Dec 23, 2014 10:49:34 GMT
Colin the guitar looks wonderful.
I especially love the fretboard inlays something different.
Thanks again for the great competition price.
Chris.
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Post by colins on Dec 23, 2014 11:19:39 GMT
Here's some better pictures of the finished guitar.
Just a reminder of the parts that came to be the guitar.
Soundboard: Lucky Strike Redwood.
B&S: English Yew.
Neck: Curly Sycamore (the tree came from the grounds of Castle Howard) with ebony and pear laminates.
Fingerboard, bridge and headplates, top purfling: Brazilian Rosewood.
Binding: Curly sycamore.
Purflings: Black/pear/black
Bracing: European spruce.
Nut and saddle: Camel bone.
Tuners: Gotoh.
I hope that you all enjoyed seeing this guitar come together. There was a total of about 150 hours of labour involved in the building process and 174 separate pieces of wood and metal and bone prepared and put together to produce the final guitar. (I hope you can see why custom guitars cost so much!  )
Well Now it's just a matter of Dave and I deciding who will get to own it. Good luck to everyone who entered.
Colin
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Post by David Hutton on Dec 23, 2014 11:57:34 GMT
colins, the guitar looks great. I have very much enjoyed watching the build, trying to write something and listening to all the other entries, so many thanks. I have a question if I may. Did you have an idea in your mind of how the guitar would sound with the unique combination of woods and how does the end result compare?
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Post by Phil Taylor on Dec 23, 2014 12:00:47 GMT
What a simply stunning looking OM colins - someone is going to be very, very happy this Xmas. What a fantastic thing you have done Colin - hats off to your generosity  Regards Phil |
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Post by colins on Dec 24, 2014 11:48:56 GMT
The winner has been announced in the competition thread.
Colin
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Post by R the F on Mar 30, 2015 11:42:30 GMT
I come a little late to your build but it's been of enormous help to me over the last couple of months as an aspiring builder of guitars; enormous gratitude for the trouble you have taken over it. I've even transformed it into a "to do next" list. However, I'm just sorting out a fretboard and I've been stumped to understand this:
Is there a typo here? Should "larger" read "narrower"? If so, I can stop tearing my hair out! By my calculations, a 46mm nut gives a 40mm string spacing at the nut (allowing 3mm margin either side), which gives you a 54.5mm board width at the 12th fret (assuming a 63mm notional board width at the saddle i.e. 57+3+3).
Thanks again for the thread and sorry to be a bore.
Rob
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Post by colins on Mar 30, 2015 14:04:28 GMT
Rob, don't over-think these things, the most important item a new builder can buy is a roll of lining paper from B&Q and to draw everything out full scale on it.
A good starting guide to FB width at the 12th fret is to make it the same as the width of the string spacing at the saddle, I like to add 1mm or so on both sides, because the string is more flexible at the 12th than it is at the 1st so string bending etc will be less likely to pull the string off the edge of the board. So the width of the FB at the 12th fret on this one would be 57mm+1mm+1mm or 59mm maybe 60mm. You've added 3mm to both sides rather than to the overall width of the FB.
As I said go and draw it out full scale.
Draw in your nut, mark your full scale length (include you compensation), perpendicular to that and draw the width of the strings at the saddle, you can then draw in the path of the outside strings. Half of your scale length will be your 12th fret. If you are using 3mm from outside of the nut to the string, then use 4mm from the string to the edge of the FB at the 12th. Join the dots from nut to 12th fret.
Colin
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Post by R the F on Mar 30, 2015 18:05:14 GMT
Thanks for the prompt response.
Yes. I was adding the same (3mm) "margin" all the way along the fretboard. I see the point now of swelling it towards the half-way point - and, yes, I already know I'm in serious danger of disappearing up my own bottom on these matters; I have swathes of full-size drawings of what I'm making - printouts from the cadcam program I use in fact - but I still missed the point! There's nothing to beat a quiet word from someone who's done it all before.
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Post by colins on Oct 19, 2017 14:02:42 GMT
Photos re-installed.
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