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Very nice! Looking for a bare bones sound I take it. Whatever happened to the Klingon inspired beast? SR

Wez said ovangkol/amazaque also known as shedua. SR

3- hackberry 5- guyana rosewood 7- chechen SR

What those guys said! Absolutely gorgeous.....even if it is possessed. SR

That is a good point. I can think of two counter points. Sandblasting the cracks will possible round the edges of them and basically gives you the oppsite effect of the veins you describe. Also if you are talking about altering the surface plane with etched designs before filling then you are proposing matching the etched contours with your fill. I deal with these cracks all the time in my carvings and have filled before carving and after carving. Before is much better. It does create a different hardness that has to be treated with care. In your case, your best bet may be to pack those cracks with sanding dust and then soak with thin CA. This will get the hardness of the fill much closer to that of the surrounding wood, which should lessen the veining effect. I would first leach thin CA down into those cracks from the end grain direction, which will go a long ways towards preventing them from splitting any more. SR

At the risk of riding on Chris's coattails....I can't disagree with any of those guesses. SR

That's what I would do. Supposedly heating up the glue line will soften it enough to be able to pry it apart.....you might check out the fretboard removal tutorial. Really, cutting it would be much quicker and easier though. SR

+1 Medium CA would work as well. That's pretty much what it was made for. SR

Actually, I have been wondering where the hell you've been. Guess you answered that one didn't you! Use a saw to break the joint. Did you ever finish guitar #1? SR

Artists are always considered "not quite right". Ahh, the curse of creativity.....is a blessing. SR

....and really, really orange! SR

The use of the word paint in reference to that top has certainly got me on edge. SR

I just snapped to the fact that you dyed the sapele black along with the maple. So now you've sanded back the black and gone green on the maple.....what did you do with the sapele? SR

I did my share of kitchen duty as well years ago. i once was cubing up some ham for seasoning in green bean for a catered event. I sliced a piece of my middle fingertip off-- a strip about 1/8"x 1/8"x 1/2". I made a quick trip to the emergency room for my first set of stitches ever. Then I went back to work and finished slicing the ham, cooking the beans and serving the meal. Never saw that piece of finger again..... SR

just as well you din't scratch your balls then...... Oooooohhh.....that reminds me of high school athletics and sports creams with names like Cramergesic, Tiger Balm and Icy Hot. Duuuuuuude. SR

Now yer talkin'. SR

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...c=43332&hl= I had forgotten that it has a walnut top, but the body and neck are all out of one piece of sapele. SR

Structurally and tonally no drawbacks. It will certainly add a few levels of difficulty particularly for a first build. Wait a minute....I'm assuming that when you say all from one piece of lumber, you mean making the neck and body all from one piece. If so, then details like fretting, headstock shaping and drilling, routing and so on are trickier, especially for a first build, because you have a whole guitar hanging onto the other end of the part you are working on. It can be done and done well. See one posted by Pauliemc for the most recent example here. If youare talking about just making the body from one piece instead of a glue up then there are no other drawbacks at all, and you've saved yourself the step of the glue up. You are just going to spend more money and waste more wood as was mentioned. SR

Then feather sand it back towards the finished body. If you micromesh the transition it will feel the same and the gloss level from one to the other will get as close as it can. Like always, this will something worth testing on scrap pieces of the same woods. SR

I'm thinking that would be a very nice color for the quilt. I hope you don't take out all the black, it gives it a smoky quality. I also like the carve on the back. I often wonder why more guitars don't get a back carve. The front view with the mahogany edge showing is very cool too. SR

Something about that feather is bothering me. I think it is the width or how much of the bottom of the chamber you can see and maybe the color of the chamber....at least as it looks in the pictures. Is that area more shadowed in real life? It might be a cool look to paint some subtle feather *fibers- filaments-whatever they are called* h=just a shade different than what is already there. I might give it some featherish depth. SR

That's beautiful Chad! I love it. SR

Man, it seems like there were half a dozen threads you started last year, that just sort of faded away. You got us all hot for the wood porn.....and just left us hanging, ya big tease. It's very good to think we might see some of these finished. SR

Very very sweet. Can't wait to see the finish. SR

You da man, Paulie. I was afraid your maple was a mite thin for a proper carve....but I see you didn't let that bother you at all did you. This is looking sweet. I like black quilt... SR