My Latest Addiction!

[pmatolcsy]

Hello All

Just thought I would introduce myself . I am an amateur builder from Canada. I just sort of fell into this about 18 months ago . I have been a guitar player and woodworker for almost 40 years.

It all stated about 18 months ago when a fellow bandmate showed me a Youtube video of Andrew Winton playing his Sipsey River Steel. I was having trouble learning slide on all my guitars as they were setup all wrong. I figured I could build one of those. Somewhere along the way I decided that hollowing out all that 8/4 lumber was wasteful and I might as well bend the sides. The rest as they say is history.

After 5 slide boxes including a double neck, a friend asked for an electric for his son. Neck throughs followed. I just finished my first acoustic and now I'm hooked!!! Several are planned.Many have already found new homes.

The information on this site is priceless for someone like me. I wish I had read it before I started (pau ferro allergy lead to 2 week course of prednisone YIKES). I'm still reading and learning a lot. I hope it prevents me from asking dumb questions in the future.

I've included a few pics of some of my builds(I'm at #10 now). I can only spray outside when the weather is good so several guitars haven't been sprayed yet and none have been rubbed out yet.

Phil Matolcsy

[Nick]

Welcome to the forum Phil. Some nice timber (and work) on those neck throughs!
Feel free to ask questions, we're a fairly friendly bunch down under (although some may beg to differ ) and willing to ask most questions, we've even got our own resident academics that could probably give you the value of Pi to twenty decimal places!

[Tod Gilding]

Very Nice Phil I'm Impressed welcome

And Nick 3.14159265358979323846

sometimes you have to go to 20 places to get a good Pi e

[steve roberts]

Hi Phil
Welcome to the forum really nice work
Regards Steve

[ozziebluesman]

G'day Phil and welcome to our forum. I love the weissenborn slide instrument and have built a few myself. Love em.

Your instruments display beautiful work.

Hope you enjoy the forum and learn from some wonderful builders here.

Cheers

Alan