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The Hollow Guitar


Elias Graves

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That thing looks great Meandi!



Thanks.
The spruce top didn't take the stain as evenly as I thought it would.
Thus, the variations in color are random & were beyond my controll...but I can live with the way it looks.
I'm real happy with the way it plays, I'm starting to get the hang of how to build a good playing neck.
It has very good sound projection with balanced evenly matched tone from bass to treble.
All in all, quite happy with it for my first acoustic build.:lol:

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You always do nice work. Any idea how many hours in that one? EG

 

 

I worked on it pretty much non-stop for over 6 months.

But, that's kinda mis-leading, in that I built a complete set of jigs & fixtures for the build, plus a lot of head scratching, along with the actual guitar construction.

Actual time in the guitar...200 hrs probably.

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200? Not as bad as I thought. The next one will be half of that, right? :poke:


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I don't think I could cut the time in half.

 

Actually, the next one is in the works now, although it's on hold while I get my paint booth built & finish Great Dane's blacktop project.

I'm building it with a pedestal mounted neck, inspired by the Ken Parker archtops, vs the traditional dovetail neck mount, & I'm back to the head scratchin & fixture building for it...so who knows how many hours it'll take.

If you're interested, I've got a thread started on it, with a link in my sig, where I outline my concept for it & some of the build problems it's presenting.

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Which link? Man, those Ken Parkers are unbelievable. How tough is that gonna be?


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Archtop #2, maple & Brazilian ebony.

Since I'm a rookie builder, with it being only my second acoustic build, I'm not attempting to do the adjustable neck feature...just using it as a visual concept inspiration.

So far it's proving to be a worthy challenge!

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How's this? Looks hollow to me.

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Thank you Sir.

 

I have never played one, but I think I would Like one just like that.

 

If It sounded lousy, I could still spend time looking at it. . . .

 

I need about $2499 more before going shopping tho. . .

 

EDIT: make that

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Love the sound of a nice Ric. Saw Petty with one last year and it sounded terrific.

More than I care to spend right now but it still makes good porn.


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You mean Mike Campbell? I was watching some youtube clips and he was just tearing it to pieces on a Ric of some kind. He shakes the entire neck to get his crazy vibrato. Huge, unpossible sustain.

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