Recycled #4 douglas fir

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Recycled #4 douglas fir

Post by macadee » Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:00 am

Thought you guys might like to see my latest bit of recycling. This one has mahogany back and sides from the remains of my door casing and a soundboard from an old douglas fir window ledge.
The starting raw materials
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A kit of parts sanded up
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The DF soundboard, the tags are because it is scantling construction
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Bracing the back
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binding the soundhole with rosewood skimmed from the fretboard egde
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the neck laminated from my stash of recovered sapele and some unknown hard whitewood
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the guitar in its green state
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Finished and relaxing in the autumn sunshine.
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Although basicaly the same as the others this one is very distinctive in its tone which is very bright and defined I have uploaded a video but gawd knows if it will work.
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Re: Recycled #4 douglas fir

Post by Dennis Leahy » Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:46 am

Beautiful guitar! Reminiscent of Adrian Lucas.

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Re: Recycled #4 douglas fir

Post by timo » Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:11 am

Beautiful job. I checked out your soundcloud too. Very nice, "Irene" is really up my alley. Bravo!
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Post by BRuddy » Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:20 am

Looks great. I really like the silking in that perfectly quartered mahogany. It is fleeting figure in hardwood but so nice when you can build with it. Nice triangular details at the tail wedge too.

And if Irene was the tune you played on this guitar it sounds mighty fine to me too!

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Post by macadee » Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:48 am

Sorry it wasn't Irene it was part of a composition called Rain. But thanks for the nice comments.
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Post by Dave Livermore » Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:13 pm

Very nicely done.

Where did you come up with the bracing scheme?
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Post by macadee » Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:21 pm

Dave Livermore wrote:Very nicely done.

Where did you come up with the bracing scheme?
I just kind of thought about it logically as I wanted to use the offset soundhole, previously I've made a couple of guitars using Tacoma / Mottola bracing but the last couple I've used this style to be a sort of X brace with the bridge very securely fixed by a cross brace so there is a triangle around the bridge, weakened in the middle as the cross brace is thinned to the thickness of the bridge patch. I see that some builders use some form of crude vibration analysis to determine the bracing but that's not for me I'm more organic in my approach. (Suck it and see)
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Re: Recycled #4 douglas fir

Post by stuw » Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:55 pm

That turned out great... That mahogany is beautiful...love them recycled guitars.....
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