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whitespruce wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 1:41 am

michael wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:38 pm Grant, are you saying the turtle never moved?

Mike

Yes, still sitting here lol,

g

So Grant, just so I have this correctly...Did you say got a wild hare to build a turtle?

I just caught up on your build Joe and it looks great!

Inspires me to get back at my two guitars in progress. Nice work!

Dean

I also appreciate the step by step.

Thanks for that Grant.

Dean

Joe , Thanks for the update on the guitar and I am sorry to hear about the turn with Patty. Like David, I have no frame of reference- but my heart goes out to you. Back to the guitar....try a clockwise turn or maybe two. I usually do the set up in a non tension position and I think this might do it....

Hey Joe, How is the guitar holding up? I just finished another with the same bracing pattern and I really am enjoying it and it got me to wondering about yours. Also I remember you rubbed the finish out some to dull down the sheen and I think you used pumice and water or oil. Refresh my memory pleas...

Good timing. I am routing/binding the Oregon myrtle boxed material and doing the b/w/ebony bindings and your pics Grant answered my question. Feels good to be back on this one again. I hope Joe Sustaire gets his camera working again. I really want to see pics of him in his work space playing the boy...

I am relieved your guitar arrived safely Joe- good deal. Looking back at the building posts, I am taken back at all the changes my life has taken while working on your guitar. I moved out of my farm house and shop in a very rural area of Wisconsin, divorced, moved into an apartment in town closer to...

Hey you guys, I rubbed the top down to 600 cause I mucked up the top some during the bridge attachment and put a thin coat of oil varnish on two weeks ago, let dry, sanded lightly with 3200 micro and followed with another coat today. I plan to let this dry and check it out, another week or so, and t...