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Limitteri

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    Keski-Pohjanmaa
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    Building and playing guitar, singing, woodworking.

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  1. This is my first post in this forum I think. I try to keeps this short. Hope this goes fine... "Magpie" was my 8th build and it was for client. It doesn't mean that I'm professional by any means. It took almost a year from starting project to complete it. But I hope I could build more guitars and maybe move my actual work more to guitars and woodworking. Now I'm working as full stack developer. Back to guitar then.. Magpie is almost built from localwood. Flame maple and walnut doesn't much grow in Finland or they are rare so they are bought from hardwood suppllier. Also pickups are Rautia Guitars Bar-o-caster with custom options and they are built here in Finland. Body and headstock are clients design. Body is black alder, which I gathered myself and cut it to blanks many years ago. Top wood is flamed rowan (Sorbus). My big brother harvested it locally and then we cut it to blanks and it was kinda really awful blank at first but I thought it will be good as top wood and it will look good after planing it. Neck is 5 pcs flamed rowan and walnut. This rowan I cutted my self and grain structure was really good for this purpose. Volume knob is flamed rowad and truss rod cover also. Electronics cavity cover is rowan burl from same tree as top wood. Fretboard is flame maple and binding are from same blank. Tuners and Schaller locking tuners. Bridge is Schaller Hannes. Pickups Rautia Guitars Bar-o-caster with custom options built in Finland. Tru-oil. Client has lot of knowledgement from guitars, pickups etc. He knew exactly how thick he wanted neck to be and he tested it two times and I tweaked it between sessions. Neck is smooth C and feels nice to hand. Pickups can be used hot/vintage style and they can be split. Volume has treble bleed. Client wanted to make all electronics and I was happy with it. There are plenty of different sounds to play with. Fretboard and neck has magpie or birdie style decorations. Carved bird is my first actual carving ever. I have done inlays before, but that bird in 12th fret is my hardest one. I really like to do those. Here are some pictures: Some kind of a song and test video: As always I was in hurry making this test video and I haven't use looper in my main Marshall set before. But there are some notes to be heard.. Is it ok to put this link to my blog where I keep collecting all my woodworking project. There are more pictures from Magpie and building but language is Finnish: https://puustaloihdittu.blogspot.com/2019/03/custom-kitara-magpie.html Thanks!
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