Show your latest thing!

[David Newton]

If Frank says it's ok to post pretty pictures, I would love to see on-going and latest finished instruments here.

[Mike Kolb]

Nice work, Martin.... and I particularly like the arrangement of the keys on the headstock, the pull for each string looks dead straight in-line. Is the body 100% hollowed or in chambered sections?

...a very handsome guitar, sir.

[Martin Edwards]

all hollow, to allow the top to vibrate a little. it's thinned to about 4mm over most of the area....

anyway, back to OTHER folk instruments!!

[n0ukf]

I already posted this first picture elsewhere but since I found this thread, I'll put it here too. 8-track uke.

And then the non-playable Copenhagen banjo.

[Mike Baker]

Not a luthier, but I like to tinker, set up, repair, and refinish. Here is an LP copy I'm refinishing for a friend. Here it is when I first started working on it
>

And after stripping

Here is one of mine I'm refinishing/rebuilding at the same time

And here are both with a couple of clearcoats. They both have a few more weeks drying time ahead of them.

[Donald A. Fortune]

hey Mike -- looks like you have the beginings of a couple of nice looking axxes there
show them when you get done OK?? Donald

[Mike Baker]

Thanks Donald, I will! It'll be awhile. I've still got a couple of weeks before it's time to wetsand and buff the bodies. When that's done, assuming there are no sand-throughs in the finish, I'll assemble and set up the LP style and deliver it to my friend. I'll get some pics of that before I turn it over to him.
As far as the strat goes, I'm still trying to decide whether to use the existing neck, which is ok, but the nut width at 1 & 9/16" is a little narrow for my taste. I'm contemplating whether or not to build one to my specs. Here is the hardware for that one. I still have to order pickups, guard and electronics.

[Mike Baker]

OK, I've completed the refinish of the LP copy. Here are some pics.

[Mike Kolb]

Nice work, Mike!

[Mike Baker]

Thanks, Mike!

[Von Luhmann]

that is some nice work there.......

[Martin Edwards]

Electric mandolin anyone?

I was chatting with a guitar buddy last week and we got onto emandos...

he'd never heard of such a thing, I'd never seen one up close.... Just Steve Earl circa 1990 from the back of a concert hall.....

Strat shaped ones are few & far between......

so I raided the scrap box for a lump of Ash & a strip of Maple.....

added a Stewmac EIR fretboard.....

4 tuners, 2 knobs and a broken bridge off a squier strat....

and half a precision style split bass pup......

and in 5 days during lunchbreaks and after work.....

Tadah!!!

[img]http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/gowanedwards/mandostrat/4060...[/img]

[img]http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/gowanedwards/mandostrat/4060...[/img]

beside a big sister to give an idea of size.......

[img]http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/gowanedwards/mandostrat/4060...[/img]

[Martin Edwards]

still a fair bit to tidy, but it is SUCH fun to play I couldn't bear to leave it down!!

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e328/gowanedwards/mandostrat/4060...