Finally me back in the shop this week...puttered around getting it workable and doing the final prep work for plates on the "Holy Bass" and the Turtle Back Padmazookie.
Was back in Feb '08 that a group of me lutherin buddies got together on one the auctions and conspired to gift duh Padma with a Shift load of Orphan tops for me birthday, you know duh Padmapa Orphanage for Wayward, Tops and Backs and Sides. (donations always accepted)
Well today me ventured in to the orphanage and selected some lutz slices.
Although many were classed as "orphans" in reality about half of them tops were book face...with defects that a guitar builder woulden't touch but would have no impact on my teardrop designs...so heres the pic.
On the left is the "Holy Bass" build which is part of that Backyard Build thing that got side tracked a few years back. Pulled a top and a back and was blown away at the top. Is once in a lifetime score cuz its got an X pattern run out right on the sweet spot of the top. 99.9% would throw this top out...not knowing what they had or even how to handle a top like this. In the middle is the back for the Holy Bass. Yes daz right a lutz top and a lutz back makes for a nice Doug Fir sandmich.
On the other left is the Turtle Back Padmazooki and its lutz top...other than the strings, think me gonna keep this build all wood...pegs...no hardware.
On the back bench is the Easter Lilly Prototype build...still carving the top plate on that one.
Oh and yes me working on purfling the NO NOthing build...is going slow...the Turtle had other plans for his shell.
here be the rough layout.
Since me the newbee on dis here site... here are the links to bring you up to speed on the builds me babbling about here.
From now on I will post the completion of each build seperatly.
the No NOthing Build
http://www.luthierforum.com/index.php?showtopic=8937
the Turtle Back Build
http://www.luthierforum.com/index.php?showtopic=8522
the Easter lilly Build.
http://www.luthierforum.com/index.php?showtopic=9222
There are four other builds nearing completion but gee dudes...its getting too hard to be documenting them all getting them posted on all these forums so I will only post finish pics of them when its going down.
blessings
Padma
