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100 times juicier than any Gibson SG i've ever seen! Wow!

When I use birch bark for a rosette, I glue it to another substrate. I glue the under-layer so the grain goes 90 degrees from the bark. That way the grain of the bark can follow the lines of the top, and it keeps the bark from splitting. I have a build thread on my webpage if you want to follow alon...

I live down here in LaCrosse Wi. I live right on the Mississippi river, and i've been collecting shells from the river for interest in science and inlays. Most of them are really thin. They used to have button factories on the river that used mussel shells from the river back in the 1900's. I plan o...

I hope to only make 2 or 3. I really need to take the stress off and get back into fly-fishing and fly-tying. Even some painting of my favorite fishing holes while my hands still work. I want to make a Bass Acoustic for a school classmate of mine. I got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes a couple months...