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Jimmy

Great Work? I hate working Zebra. But, it is pretty.

Bill

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Mini -Tug, KH Tahoe 19 & Bartender 24 - There can be no miracle recoveries without first screwing up.
Tahoe 19 Build

Yeah, Jimmy, I know you are right. I was trying to go for thin and tall, saving weight and letting the top have more vibratory surface area, but I think I got to curvaceous with the scalloping. Anyway, it has stabilized even though it still has mediums on it. I'm going to correct some of the other issues on it, re-buff it, and then restring it with lights. We'll see how it goes.

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Ken Hundley
http://www.nocturnalguitars.com

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Here are some more shots for the day. Making progress so far on two instruments at the same time as while one is gluing then prepping the other one for some other action. So for today gluing on the back and top to the jumbo, installed my marker inside the jumbo, carved the classic head stock today and drilled for machine heads and installing the neck and foot support piece inthe classic. I took a snap of my 10" sander which is just like a Jet model. Took me some doing but got it to were it will sand very even across the boards.

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Some more progress with the two instruments. Installed the wood banding on the jumbo, installed the linings in the classic, coated the jumbo top with a wash of epoxy thinned with acetone, and installed the back braces in the classic. If you will look close you will see that I installed individual blocks of bracing for the classic back. I installed some rosewood on the neck for some strength I hope and then can make the neck a little thinner. Other than that it was hot here today and damn skeeters were out trying to munch me up. I suppose it will be snowing in a week...
Jimmy

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Moving right along again. Had to take yesterday off as I was really feeling quite crappy. So today I got the dove tail joint cut in on the jumbo and installed the neck and fingerboard making sure all is aligned right and I epoxied those items. I put some side braces in on the classic to prevent any cracks from migrating to far if they appear and then fitted the top and set the neck to the proper place and glued all of that up. Now I am hoping that both necks are aligned for the right string clearance. I suppose setting up the necks are about the worst of the jobs as they can get skewed right or left and then the height slant has to be right or you end up with lousy string heights. Oh well part of the fun of building guitars.
My Eagle guitar gave me a bad time on the string height but I just cut the neck off the other day and redone it and now has nice low clearance. I still have the D-45 model to finish up so got to get that done and tuned up and see how she sounds. That is a nice looking guitar and hope it plays as well as it looks.
Jimmy

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Jimmy,
I've been lurking along as you grow this thread. You are a master!

I thought of you as I watched this video. A jumbo guitar and a tiny virtuoso.
http://www.tvkim.com/watch/326/kims-picks-north-korean-girl-guitarist

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Paul Miller in Memphis, TN
"Yeah, I had lunch with him last week at the Cracker Barrel out on I-40."

Oh to be able to play like that little gal did. She sure has the technique down too with the small hands she has yet and she gets a good spread with the fingers to catch the notes.
Once when I was doing a lot of playing back in the 70's I was invited to a party to play a little for them and I had made a special jumbo guitar with a very wide neck to be able to use finger picks while playing. I was sitting in the back ground tooling around with my guitar and small amp playing this difficult song that got all over the finger board. Well to make my head really swell up this gal comes over and was watching me play and she commented, "You sound just like the stereo that is playing," I laughed and told her that was me and not the stereo and she said No Way, well I quit playing and of course the song did too and she said "you are fantastic." So my mistake was to not keep practicing and getting better as i went along. I just had to many things in the fire and could not keep with it all so the music went down hill.

Now me, here lately I got a damn bad cold and I haven't been out in the shop since these last photos were placed on here. I am just now getting over the cold and feeling better so got to get back onto the guitars and finish them up. Course now the shop is like a frig most of the time so got to heat that up so I can work out there and keep half thawed out. To bad one has to worry about money to keep warm, huh!!!

Thanks for sharing that small guitar player with me as I have already forwarded that to a couple of my picker friends. Now I got to watch that girl play again...
Jimmy

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Lookin good, Jimmy! I am putting the last two finish coats on the front of Black Beauty, then I can finsh her up for my sister for Christmas. I also need to finish the padauk and get that out the door and start focusing on mine. Keep up the good work, and feel better!

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Ken Hundley
http://www.nocturnalguitars.com

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Ken
I was just eyeballing your nice site you have and those guitars you are working on. Some fantastic work you have done for a realtive new comer in the business. I hope you keep up the nice work for many years and make some happy people along your travels in life.

I suppose it is to bad that one can not live in a perfect climate of 76 degrees and 20% humidity as that would work out pretty nice for us wood workers and even help in growing veggies too. I am sure we can work around most of the crappy weather and extreme temp drops and rises but the humidity becomes a killer too.

Please keep posting photos as you go along as the old saying," one photo is worth a thousand words." Besides they are inspiring to look at and marvel at the wonderful work you are doing.
Jimmy

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Here's sometehing that might be usefull to you guitar builders. (fantastic work by the way....very impressive ) I built some windsor chairs several years ago and they had some odd shaped laminations for the leg supports. Well sometimes its easier to make a form for one side exact and a rough one for the other side. What I did was make the inside (male? ) form so I could sand it to shape on the belt sander. For the outside form I cut it large on the band saw. I bolted the two forms to the bennch, put my glued up laminations inside (wrapped in poly) then fit a piece of fire hose in between with the two ends capped and an air fitting in one end. Inflate and it does a perfect uniform clamping job.
Doug

Thank you for the compliments! It's amazing what warts and blemishes get lost in photos, but I appreciate the kind words. There are a lot more photos to upload to my site, and I can do that during the winter over my lunches, finally get the site caught up to where I am today. With makin time for the kids, my incredible wife, and trying to keep off the 50 lbs I had 2 years ago, as well as keeping up witht he build committments I have made, keeping the website up has taken the fall. I will remedy that this winter.

Slug, I like that idea. I could use that when gluing an extra layer of side material an the areas I have made sound ports.....I never like having just one layer of side there....too easy to split if something goes wrong.

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Ken Hundley
http://www.nocturnalguitars.com

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Hi Jimmy.

Any updates for us? I hope all is well.

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Bruce.

~~ Do what you love, and love what you do. ~~
~~ To me - only my boat is not yet perfect. Everybody else's is to be admired for I know the path they have walked (Dave Lott, 2010) ~~
Dow's Monaco Project

Sorry no updates of lately. My shop was just to damn cold to be spending a lot of money to heat up and then getting cold again over night and then do it all over again. I am waiting for some warmer weather so I can attack those 3 instruments and try and finish them up and getting them playable.

My old kidneys are kind of in a stable mode right now and hope they hold for a bit longer. My creatine level did balloon up to 3.4 but once I started taking sodium bicarbonate,600mg, a day then it seemed to stablize at that point. Some UK doctors done a kidney study and found that the sodium bicarb would stablize the kidneys and help prevent some patients from getting dialysis and even some of those that were on the dialysis could get off. So I am hoping I can delay the hell out of that situation.
One problem with taking this sodium bicarb it makes your skin itch something bad but I can control it by using a ton of lotion pretty good so guess it is worth the effort to keep off the dialysis.
Jimmy

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Hey Jimmy.

Great to hear from you... thanks for the update.

Just make sure you don't use so much lotion that your hands are slippery and you drop those beautiful guitars! (grin)

Stay warm.

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Bruce.

~~ Do what you love, and love what you do. ~~
~~ To me - only my boat is not yet perfect. Everybody else's is to be admired for I know the path they have walked (Dave Lott, 2010) ~~
Dow's Monaco Project

Good to here from you Jimmy!!! Hang in there!!!

Roberta

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Roberta
Built Zip "Oliver IV" and Super Spartan "Jimmy 70"