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Hi Alan, looks to me like your build is coming along really fine, your 20 yr old top is going to looking good the grain is quite nice. the cherry wood back and sides are going to look great however you choose to finish. is cherry difficult to bend? think i'll look into the sound properties of cherry...

Hi Alan, Hope your build is going good, any chance of seeing some pictures? The choice of 20 yr old sitka will make for a great sounding top, especially with the maturity of the material. I should have my build kit before the end of the year, I tried to choose a 'simpler' build for my first attempt....

Hi Alan,
thanks for the info, so did you build an L-00 Gibson yourself? seems to be a popular build, and it is 1 cool vintage guitar. td

Hi Brian, While I was viewing a video by j. hall, I did notice that he does provide a half template for the build. So I can layout a full template for the L-00 mold, I don't think he mentions it but I did see it drawn on cardboard protecting the spruce top. So there is much to learn from observation...

Hi Bryan, Will definitely need to do some checking when my kit arrives, I'm trying to avoid having to buy the mold and it would be a good learning project to 'get my feet wet ' so to speak. I am about 2 months away from starting my build, so I am trying to be a bit more prepared and think of any way...

Hi Tim, That's very good info and advice, and you are correct when you say expensive plans are cheap compared to the time spent on poor plans and expensive materials. Let me know how your L-00 build is coming along, this will be my first acoustic build and I'm trying to keep it simple. I am going to...

hello bryan,
it does look like a well drawn blueprint, what I want to do is build a mold first. if it's easier to use the metric system that would be okay with me. how did your first L-00 turn out? would love to see a photo!!
thanks bryan

Hello folks I'm new here. I'm gonna be startin' a build on the Gibson L-00 and I want to build my own mold. Where would I find an accurate blueprint for layout? I did find the Grellier drawing but I don't really want to do all the metric conversions, anyone got any ideas? Any info or ideas would be ...