This is being set up using old guitar strings, 11- 50. They seem a reasonable guage. Still a lot of set up work ot do, I just had to get strings on and see what I have. Pretty happy with it.
I coloured my shellac brown to make it a few shades darker and stripped the head , tailpiece and pickguard. They will have matte oil like the f.b.
5 String Tenor Guitar
Re: 5 String Tenor Guitar
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Bill
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Re: 5 String Tenor Guitar
Nice Bill, what year did you say that was made in?
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Re: 5 String Tenor Guitar
That one turned out really nice! (which, of course is not a surprise).
I see a rather classical shape with some Paulin signature lines added.
Thanks for sharing those pictures of the building stages, and the hints on the staining technique.
I see a rather classical shape with some Paulin signature lines added.
Thanks for sharing those pictures of the building stages, and the hints on the staining technique.
Markus
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It's only the others who suffer.
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It's only the others who suffer.
Re: 5 String Tenor Guitar
Thanks for the comments fellas,
I'm reluctant to go on too much about the polishing becauce I'm finding my way and I don't anyone following my advice
to end up saying " that bastard! "
The timbers Jim
top......Bunya, graduated like a thickish mando, braces , angled parallel guitar sized.
sides.... Blackwood
back and backstrap..... PNG Rosewood
neck...... Plantation Mahog.
tailpiece, pickguard, fb and head veneer...False Sandlewood
nut, bridge and bindings ... Solomon Blackwood
Grovers, Kent Armstrong and Schatten thumbwheel controls
A note on Solomon Blackwood...It bends very easy, at least the sizes I used. I remember about a year ago someone
was having a battle with Ebony.
I'm reluctant to go on too much about the polishing becauce I'm finding my way and I don't anyone following my advice
to end up saying " that bastard! "
The timbers Jim
top......Bunya, graduated like a thickish mando, braces , angled parallel guitar sized.
sides.... Blackwood
back and backstrap..... PNG Rosewood
neck...... Plantation Mahog.
tailpiece, pickguard, fb and head veneer...False Sandlewood
nut, bridge and bindings ... Solomon Blackwood
Grovers, Kent Armstrong and Schatten thumbwheel controls
A note on Solomon Blackwood...It bends very easy, at least the sizes I used. I remember about a year ago someone
was having a battle with Ebony.
"Were you drying your nails or waving me good bye?" Tom Waits
Bill
Bill
Re: 5 String Tenor Guitar
that turned out super I have been following this build with great interest
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Re: 5 String Tenor Guitar
Oh, that's what I'm saying anyway every time I see one of your finished instruments!P Bill wrote:I'm reluctant to go on too much about the polishing becauce I'm finding my way and I don't anyone following my advice
to end up saying " that bastard! "
Markus
To be stupid is like to be dead. Oneself will not be aware of it.
It's only the others who suffer.
To be stupid is like to be dead. Oneself will not be aware of it.
It's only the others who suffer.
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