chile

Super heavy, tone deficient crap wood if you ask me... at least in the world of acoustics.

Martin, taylor and others are using sapele on some model... i'va also heard that Steinway & sons use sapele for their pianos...

No matter What you want to call it, at least its allergies don't include a swollen scrotum, unlike East Indian Satinwood.

I regularly count that as a benefit, yes. In fact every time I use it.

ROTFL!!!

Late night thoughts? It's 12:34 PM.

hare in Italy it was 3:15 AM

So I seriously doubt the claims of any builder producing in large numbers that they are using genuine Honduras mahogany.

i absolutely agree... I've said honduras but I mean swietenia...

here in italy sapele (sapelli) is common called sapele mahogany or african mahogany... same thing appens with sipo and other "similar to mahogany" african woods...

the known truth is that every african mahogany isn't real mahogany (the "holy" swietenia) but all (swietenia,sipo, sapelli, khaya etc) are from the big Meliaceae family... that said why the bigs can call mahogany the khaya but absolutely not mahogany the sapelli? that's discrimination! or fu**ing marketing...

ok, just late night thougs

if i'm right prs (of wich I'm big fan) always talk about honduras mahogany, never heard of african mahogany... isn't it a little obmission?

It looks sapele to me, what do you think?

http://www.prsguitars.com/dgtstandard/

this after reading some post on the "sapele vs maogany" debate on some forums...

thank you Madawgony!

well, if it isn't copyrighted...

great!

I'd like to see that plan

nice idea but il looks totally unreliable... and $40 is a steal!

maybe rotary switch isn't too cool but they're 1000 times better IMHO

well, let's go further (i wrote all this details in the gotm post but a pic worts 1000 worlds), other little details

not posted on the gotm because of the limits in pics...

Whoa! You would probably get a lot more votes if you showed that in your submission post.

I voted for it, regardless. Great work!

mmmm... Mr. Admin, can I edit my post!

Chile: Again, the craftsmanship is there but the body shape; I just don’t understand it. I know it has meaning to you so I guess that’s the sacrifice. You understand it but most people wont.

You have to look at it upside down

obviously not so much people knows the flag of my little island

I friend of mine asked this particular work...

ps. green flakes rules!

the end results with good pads and compound is good, but still not perfect, the guitar is the one in the GOTM for feb...

as soon as I can, i think i'll try to buid a buffing station from scratch.. i already have the motor and a friend who can do the needed metal working

Here's my first at GOTM.

Mission: take the flag of Sardinia(a little paradise in the middle of mediterranean sea), a nuraghe (an ancient sardinian stone building), a pintadera (ancient die for bread decoration) and the Sardinia itself, and buil a guitar with all this elements...

Name: moro (one of those moor heads on the flag that becomes the body)

sapelli mahogany body

laminated maple and ovangkol neck and fretboard

PRS Dragon II pu

Gotoh Bridge

Schaller tuners

stylized pintaderas and nuraghes as inlays (laser engraved)

MOP Sardinia as headstock inlay

and the fretfoard right out of the laser engraver

yes, i told cheap but only to say they're not the superexpensive products.

This is what works for me and its only a step in the right direction for you

a good step indeed, thank you so much for the advices!

Menzerna pads are "THE" only pads I will ever use as they work "PERIOD!" search my posts and I'm sure you will see what I have to say and what I recommend hope this helps.

done! so you suggest the "cheap" way... I'll try my cheap polish with some good pad!

the only problem is that i can't find the 3m hand glaze, looked on shopps here and online and found only on the usa...some suggestion?

Hi everyboy,

I was looking for a good finishing product, somenthing that can give that "factory gloss"

Preface:

I use 2k ppg paints, start with 1500 grit (P graded) if not 2000 then switch to 3m flexible polishing papers untill 6000 grit and then polish... the polishes I find here arent that good, they almonst eliminates scratches from the 6000 but creates microscratches themself...

So I decided to take a look at those 3m finesse-it//perfect-it... thousand products and too expensive to go wrong..

Also I've found the menzerna prod, either solid and paste http://www.menzerna.com/12.html?&L=1

My questions:

Does is the solid compound used with buffing weels superior to paste ones used with foam disks?

Does someone use this product?

Is it good or there's some better option?

uhmmm and, Is my english udestandable?

thanks in advance!

Hi Andrea! Welcome to the Forum. Feel free to roam about and read all you can. And remember to always use the search function before asking questions, it is usually faster to get the answers you want that way!

hello people!

i'm Andrea from Italy, a guy with a strong passion for luithiery, as evryone here i suppose