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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | I posted this pic in another topic earlier but here is another pic of the project still under way..
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Looks like one hell of a gitfiddle Brian's making for you!
On the "nekkid lady mudflap fretmarker inlays"...
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Colin,i may end up going to the factory with this one if its done before the 30th...Sorry,no fingerboard inlays on this one..Here is some more progress..
fingerboard slotted for frets.
dovetale is routed for neck. 
Flame koa binding is set and glued
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | one more of koa glued and inlayed on bottom side..  |
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Location: Upper Left USA | This looks good Sam!
Will Brian be able to fill 5 more orders prior to Christmas? :eek: |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | 5 before christmas is a piece of cake..He ads help for the holiday season..He hires elves...OOOPS! ,i mean little people..
All kidding aside this is turning out to be a very cool looking guitar!The wood back ,koa binding is really complementing the epauletts.. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | OK, lots of progress on the body by Brian today.All binding on.Next filling the pourse of the wood, more sanding and about 9 coats of laquer
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Where are you going to put the access panel?
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Just like the original slothead adamas models ,there will be no access panel.There are no electronics and the trus rod is on the headstock side as it was on the original guitars.. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Hello Sam,
Maybe it's at trick of the light but the body looks very jumbo. Did you use a mathamatical equation to figure the total square inches of soundhole vs. total cubic inches of body displacement to determine the size of the soundholes? Or perhaps you just took the area that the body would need for a single hole and made the multi-hole area the same?
Or did you just wing it? |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Brad,the body is the same as an ovation body maybe slighty smaller by 1/8 of an inch all the way around.The spruce top is a top that was already cut to the ovation shape and size as i got the top from ovation.It was sitting at my home for several years and probably at the factory several years before that.There was no formula done as far as the body.The body depth is a typical dred depth.. |
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | Things are moving fast and furious at Brian's shop.He stays up till 4am working on the "project" ..
here's a pic of the pore filler applied to the guitar.
next the neck.Heel carving coming soon..
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | very early stage of the neck and headstock detail.Still a lot of wood to be trimmed and shaved.Lots and lots of sanding.The two black lines on the neck are graphite strips for reinforcement..
Here is the first rough cut of the carved heel.It will look much nicer when he begins to shape it and finalize all the lines and details.Still a bit of wood to be removed to shape it.
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Location: Atlanta,Ga. | This is the guy i have entrusted to build my dream guitar..OH SHIT!!! :eek: Actually Brian is doing a great job and really has the talent to do this type of thing,goofy hat and all.Not many Luthiers would have takin the time away from building their own guitar models to take on a project like this
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Location: SoCal | wonderfull work...now for the Greek flag |
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