Winter Builds

[Brian McCombs]

My 2018 aspirations are taking shape. I have two cedar topped rosewood guitars in mind. And a spruce topped maple that I'm trimming in green. I made some of it materialize this weekend.... Three sets of ribs, some necks and totally messed up shop. The maple is snazzy I'm going to wrap it in mahogany binding I think.

[David Norton]

Nice looking work thus far!

[Brian McCombs]

The cold weather snapped briefly today. I got out wandered a few miles. The mighty St. Joseph River on it's way to Lake Michigan......if it stood still a moment it'd freeze right solid.

The fresh air did me so good I decided to make it a kerfings and linings day.....enough for 4 guitars. I also put together a mile of Padauk/maple bindings that I will have gently roasting in my bender shortly.

[simonm]

Looking good. I have a few on the way myself. The landscape looks pretty good too but a bit too chilly for me.
I see you have snuck in a little selfie too.

[printer2]

The cold weather snapped briefly today. I got out wandered a few miles. The mighty St. Joseph River on it's way to Lake Michigan......if it stood still a moment it'd freeze right solid.

Darn, open water, miss that. I had a girl from Bristol live with me a while and she went back home to England for a vacation and took back some pictures (real film, long time ago) they would not believe.

Ice fishing on the river.


Good fishing in the summer also.

[Doug Ingram]

The cold weather snapped briefly today. I got out wandered a few miles. The mighty St. Joseph River on it's way to Lake Michigan......if it stood still a moment it'd freeze right solid.

Darn, open water, miss that. I had a girl from Bristol live with me a while and she went back home to England for a vacation and took back some pictures (real film, long time ago) they would not believe.

Ice fishing on the river.


Good fishing in the summer also.

It so warms my heart to see such familiar locations on this international forum! I know those spots well.

[Brian McCombs]

I toasted some Padauk and roasted some Mahogany. I had the place smelling very earthy. Having used these two materials on my last 3 guitars, I've got the temps and bending process dialed in, these were a joy to make. I broke none of them and nobody got burned. I've taken to Titebond 3 for laminating purflings. It's working for me. The mahogany should pair up nicely with the ivory/bone tones of the maple back and sides.

[simonm]

Ice fishing on the river.

….

Reminds me of "Grumpy Old Men"

Way too cold for me.

[Brian McCombs]

Wheeeee.....looks like a slide or a rosewood roller coaster or something.

I'm starting to group together all the bits and pieces I've been making. This guitar will be rosewood and probably cedar....trim is Padauk which has become an addiction for me. It is a real interesting material and it begins to change the moment you cut into it. I appreciate the deep brick red this will eventually become once it matures.

[Brian McCombs]

I ruined that rosette pictured in my previous post. I do that more than I care to say for whatever reason.

I always make extras though, I used this one and inlaid it this weekend. Loving the cedar lately - I fanned the soundboard today. I knocked together a bigger go bar deck too, the one I've used for years was frustratingly small. I'm anxious to start assembling it all.

[Brian McCombs]

While it looks like a mess......there is a guitar under there. I'll have it off the workboard this weekend I do declare.

[Brian McCombs]

I"m back.

[Paul Micheletti]

Your spool clamps look surprisingly similar to mine. Except mine don't have the extra nut on the end. Is that just to prevent you from spinning the wingnut off the end?

[Brian McCombs]

The nuts are glued to the threaded rod. I can then hold the rod still with a little wrench while tightening the wing nut. Sometimes those rods like to spin loose.

[Brian McCombs]

Midnight Oil finds my latest guitar bound. Not real fancy, but its tidy.