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Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:40 pm
by Andy Bounsall
Finally completed this guitar, the second one that I had been building over the winter. Chocolate coloured cedar top, flamed birch body, curly shedua neck, ebony finger board and bridge. Scale length is 25 1/4”. Internal JJB-ELECTRONICS surface mount pickup. Guitar has an access port at the tail end which, when opened, allows a hand and forearm to reach inside the body.

Re: Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:42 pm
by Andy Bounsall
A few more pics

Re: Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:43 pm
by Andy Bounsall
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Re: Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:23 pm
by Gordon Bellerose
Very nice.

Re: Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 6:29 am
by Beate Ritzert
Indeed.

Is there any different in sound by the use of f-holes on a flat top?

Re: Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 5:41 pm
by Andy Bounsall
Thanks for the kind words.
Beate Ritzert wrote:Is there any different in sound by the use of f-holes on a flat top?
Smarter people than me have written volumes about the effect of sound hole size and location on the sound of an acoustic guitar. If you could build an identical guitar with a more “traditional” sound hole, I suppose you might hear a different colouration of the sound. What I can tell you is that this one sounds very nice to my ear. A warm, mellow tone with a pretty strong bottom end.

Re: Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 4:43 pm
by Andy Bounsall

Re: Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2018 9:51 am
by Karl Wicklund
Lovely! I like the look of birch particularly.

Re: Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:37 pm
by Gilbert Fredrickson
Sweet.

Re: Cedar and flamed birch completed

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 12:09 am
by Ryan Mazzocco
very nice. I'm digging that look a lot