Acoustic Guitar Construction

Kevininca wrote:Looks great Ken. I too loves me walnut! How is Walnut for a fretboard?
My wife's uncle bought 200 board feet of Walnut boards and billets cut in the 50's a few weeks ago. He is going to let me look through it and see if there is anything there to be used in guitar making and let me buy some from him. I'm excited. He got it for $4 a BF.
Anyway, that is not the subject.
I get tired of looking at Koa ukes (no offense Tony) so it is refreshing to see the non-traditional woods being used.
I'd probably pay the 8 year old price for the kit!!!!!

Kevin

You made me feel sad. Koa is nice wood. :-(

Koa is nice wood, but not the nicest. I saw a piece of Padauk help an old woman cross the street; some Sapele helped a guy push his stalled car to the side of the road in traffic in the rain; I even saw some lowly Balsa toss a few splinters into an empty guitar case on a busker's street corner.

I've not seen Koa do any of these things. Sorry.

LMAO

deadedith wrote:Koa is nice wood, but not the nicest. I saw a piece of Padauk help an old woman cross the street; some Sapele helped a guy push his stalled car to the side of the road in traffic in the rain; I even saw some lowly Balsa toss a few splinters into an empty guitar case on a busker's street corner.

I've not seen Koa do any of these things. Sorry.

Koa has told me I am an attractive man. I know Koa was lying, but I appreciate the compliment nonetheless. I think that counts for something especially since I was having a bad day and feeling pretty down on myself. Koa totally cheered me up. Made me some bacon too. I nearly married Koa that day.

Another pic -- note Snark, it took about 24 hours before it would stay in tune. I'm going to use the Titanium forumla strings on the next one.

I do like that satin finish - it does not detract from the wood, it does enhance it without putting your eyes out if the light glances off it like the Hubble telescope mirror. I may use the Watco satin on the odd couple guitar.
When will kits be available, Ken? I think you have another winner on your hands.



Tony - the reason it is the most sought-after wood in the world: Brazilian rosewood is the nicest wood of all, and also the only wood used in the building of the Hubble space telescope. BRW trees are so nice that they have been know to spontaneously uproot themselves and hop (awkwardly, not with the slow-footed pride of an Ent) to a river, throw themselves in, and float to villages that have need of extra income, giving themselves up to the indignity of being debarked and cut up and shipped to hostile people with chisels and saws and planes oh my! There was a huge movement, when Mother Theresa was being sainted, to have BRW sainted at the same time. I led that movement and was sorely disappointed by the results, but will try again, perhaps with some quarter-sawn.

I sprayed the little guy in our "Bilko" stairwell. Which is dust free and open to the out doors. I used rattle cans "no sanding between coats" completed in one day -- Tuesday, strings attached Friday. Watco is a great product with great flow out.