Long awaited (by me), mostly due to a bad neck I had to scrap and start over on, not to mention the holidays. This one is a concert scale, with sitka spruce top, single piece cherry neck, and cocobolo bridge and fretboard. I cut the neck shorter than I intended, so the bridge is a tad lower than I intended, and even though it's a concert scale, it meets the body at the 12th fret. I slotted the fingerboard myself (in fact, I resawed the cocobolo from a larger piece board, so the whole bit is home built, with more to come--not counting my time, these fretboards will cost me about $4 a piece). I was worried about the intonation, even though I used a LMI fret template and a stewmac miter box to make the cuts, but it seems to be fine. It sounds pretty good, with better volume than I had hoped for. Right now I have it strung with some D'Adario (however you spell that) black nylon strings, and I'm not used to them, so I don't particularly care for them--they seem to lack the richness of the aquila's, but I'll leave them on for a while. I built this one along side another, that only needs some finish work and then final assembly, so that one should be finished soon, too. That one has an image on the soundboard, so I'm anxious to see how it sounds. It already looks cool, and it was hard to stay excited about this one at times, but I persevered. I think I'll give it to my 7 year old nephew.
For larger images you can go to my site.
I also got my bending pipe back from the machine shop last night. They took their sweet time, but didn't charge me a thing to weld my aluminum pipe to an L bracket so I can clamp it to my bench, as well as to weld one end shut to keep in the heat. Looks sweet, and works well. Bent some scrap last night. Maybe I'll post some pics of that later.
Thanks for looking.
Matt
For larger images you can go to my site.
I also got my bending pipe back from the machine shop last night. They took their sweet time, but didn't charge me a thing to weld my aluminum pipe to an L bracket so I can clamp it to my bench, as well as to weld one end shut to keep in the heat. Looks sweet, and works well. Bent some scrap last night. Maybe I'll post some pics of that later.
Thanks for looking.
Matt
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