Bearclaw/Mahogany Dreadnought
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Bearclaw/Mahogany Dreadnought
This ones heading to a customer in Tassie tomorrow.
The Spruce came from Brent Cole at Alaska Specialty Woods. If you want Bearclaw Brent is your man. The set we put on this guitar is what he sells as medium bearclaw. And it was as stiff as buggery.
The back and sides are Mahogany.
Dave and I are personally delivering it just to ensure it gets there OK.
That's bullshit of course. As well has handing over the said instrument we're on a wood safari for the weekend so we'll post more pics when we get back.
Bob
The Spruce came from Brent Cole at Alaska Specialty Woods. If you want Bearclaw Brent is your man. The set we put on this guitar is what he sells as medium bearclaw. And it was as stiff as buggery.
The back and sides are Mahogany.
Dave and I are personally delivering it just to ensure it gets there OK.
That's bullshit of course. As well has handing over the said instrument we're on a wood safari for the weekend so we'll post more pics when we get back.
Bob
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Another great one done. Your customer will be pleased I'm sure. Is the Spruce sitka? Bet it's a "cannon" as the North Americans would say.
Looks like the bear left something on the top ... oh, wait a minute that's a fine tortis pickguard methinks.
Watch out for bears in the woods on your safari.
Another great one done. Your customer will be pleased I'm sure. Is the Spruce sitka? Bet it's a "cannon" as the North Americans would say.
Looks like the bear left something on the top ... oh, wait a minute that's a fine tortis pickguard methinks.
Watch out for bears in the woods on your safari.
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I love that bearclaw, very striking. Does bearclaw really make the spruce stiffer? Anyone know why?
As a guitar-uneducated person I am wondering whats the differece between a 000, 00, Dreadnought, parlour, whatever whatever whatever. Is there a website resource where one can see the different common models of guitar side-by-side for comparison?
As a guitar-uneducated person I am wondering whats the differece between a 000, 00, Dreadnought, parlour, whatever whatever whatever. Is there a website resource where one can see the different common models of guitar side-by-side for comparison?
I don't know about stiffer, but areas of bearclaw are more dense.
I noticed this when I thinned my first bearclaw top and held it up to the light, the areas where there was bearclaw were opaque, everywhere else was translucent. Held up to the light the top looked spotty.
I'd guess that increased density would equate to increased stiffness, but it would be localised to the areas that are bearclawed - at least to my way of thinking. But I could be wrong, perhaps the whole top is stiffer, anyone?
Nice axe by the way Bob.
I noticed this when I thinned my first bearclaw top and held it up to the light, the areas where there was bearclaw were opaque, everywhere else was translucent. Held up to the light the top looked spotty.
I'd guess that increased density would equate to increased stiffness, but it would be localised to the areas that are bearclawed - at least to my way of thinking. But I could be wrong, perhaps the whole top is stiffer, anyone?
Nice axe by the way Bob.
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Thanks Gentlemen.
Dave - Dave does actually exist but prefers lumps of wood to keyboards.
Just to prove it here's a pic of us arriving home from the pub at Port Fairy.
Strange thing is I can't actually remember this pic being taken.
Sebastiaan - I hope there's still a demand for Dreadies. I've got a couple of unfinished ones in the shed.
Grant - the scratch plate is a Greven. You can get them from his website or from LMI. I reckon they are far and above the best ones available.
I was talking to Kim recently and we think they may be a good candidate for a group buy some time in the future.
Some people claim that Bearclaw Sitka is stiffer than garden variety Sitka but I think it comes down to the individual set or billet.
This was the stiffest piece of Spruce I've worked with and I took it down to 2.75mm in the centre (and 2.5mm around the lower bout edges) and it still felt too stiff.
Matthew
Here's some pics of the various Martin Models. They stopped making 0 models in the thirties I think. I've called these 18 series but some of them are 28 series. Rosewood backs instead of Mahogany but you'll get the idea of the basic shapes.
O model 14 frets clear of the body
O-16NY 12 fret model
OO-18 14 fret
00-18 12 fret
OOO-18 14 fret (OM is the same shape with a 25.34" scale. OOO has 24.9)
OOO-18 12 fret
Dreadnought
Terz/Size5
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Dave - Dave does actually exist but prefers lumps of wood to keyboards.
Just to prove it here's a pic of us arriving home from the pub at Port Fairy.
Strange thing is I can't actually remember this pic being taken.
Sebastiaan - I hope there's still a demand for Dreadies. I've got a couple of unfinished ones in the shed.
Grant - the scratch plate is a Greven. You can get them from his website or from LMI. I reckon they are far and above the best ones available.
I was talking to Kim recently and we think they may be a good candidate for a group buy some time in the future.
Some people claim that Bearclaw Sitka is stiffer than garden variety Sitka but I think it comes down to the individual set or billet.
This was the stiffest piece of Spruce I've worked with and I took it down to 2.75mm in the centre (and 2.5mm around the lower bout edges) and it still felt too stiff.
Matthew
Here's some pics of the various Martin Models. They stopped making 0 models in the thirties I think. I've called these 18 series but some of them are 28 series. Rosewood backs instead of Mahogany but you'll get the idea of the basic shapes.
O model 14 frets clear of the body
O-16NY 12 fret model
OO-18 14 fret
00-18 12 fret
OOO-18 14 fret (OM is the same shape with a 25.34" scale. OOO has 24.9)
OOO-18 12 fret
Dreadnought
Terz/Size5
Bob
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Thanks everyone.
Allen - we left the top thickness and bracing as it was with the intention that we would have some leeway to adjust the bracing internally. The only mod that we made was taking the finger bracing down a little. This gave the mids, particularly the D and G string a little more life and punch.
Lillian - I'm wearing the glasses.
Bob
Allen - we left the top thickness and bracing as it was with the intention that we would have some leeway to adjust the bracing internally. The only mod that we made was taking the finger bracing down a little. This gave the mids, particularly the D and G string a little more life and punch.
Lillian - I'm wearing the glasses.
Bob
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