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Love the inlays.

One of the most stunning guitars I have ever seen.

I love the way this guitar looks. The figure really compliments the shape.

Awesome stuff!!!!

I love the woods, the craftsmanship, the design, excecution,form.... function.... ALL OF IT !

I love the simplicity of it yet the detail put into it is killer.

Would love to own one.... PM sent.

I have a maple/Padouk V. The tone is insane. I love it.

Yours looks 100%. Love every aspect of it.

p.s.- I need moar pups........ will b in touch via e-mail......

Excellent looking guitar, Paulie. Top shelf in all aspects.

I like the way this guitar turned out. Definitely NOT a 'from the shelf' build, so Congrats on that.

Hows the tone?

I can see your shoes in the chrome edging pic.

Sound clips??

Indeed they do. Well, the big one at least. and I have some binding seperation. Minimal, but I want to address it.

I cannot tell a lie though - I am in untraveled waters and I am not going to experiment on her. I'm thinking of trying a laquer pen from SM to try and patch some of the smaller chips. Definitely no re-fin for her. I disassembled it today and was surprised at how well the pup and tailpiece shined up. The bridge allows no compensation for the intonation, just a straight line of hand carved wood, so I'll try to angle it a bit at least . I have some mahogany scrap, some purple heart, some ebony and some bloodwood. I might try carving a few bridges of my own to see if i can get it any better. The base and original bridge will always be there should I fail at improving on it.

any tips on filling that crack? Gel CA or epoxy? I have both, just don't know which one will be best. I plan on taping off the areas around the binding sep, wicking in some thin CA and then tape-bracing it till dry.

Well, my plan to use a phase reverse on the neck PU has hit a snag. I just realized that the '62 has a metal base plate. The unground/reground procedure works great on a fiber base plate. Unfortunately, the '62 cover is connected in 4 places to the metal base plate. The coil is connected to the base plate at the eyelet...so, I can either do a simple phase reverse knowing that the plate and cover will become part of the hot side of the signal when reversed or just stick a placebo switch in the hole and forget about it.

With the cover and plate in the hot side of the signal, I could get unexpected noise, a nasty hum if I accidentally touch the PU, or short the PU to ground if I touch it with a string.I guess it's worth a shot...it's a simple fix if I don't like it and the switch needs to be installed either way.

Peace,

Mark

I say go for it. The strings to pup contact would make it a kill-switch of sorts. the noises might be there depending on the setting /venue but it's always reversible ( no pun intended ) .

Hi Muzz! It is a cool piece of Americana and I'm quite proud to be the new owner. I did plug it in today and the pup /electronics actually allow for a wide range of good tones. The volume knob itself is quite responsive, full on is brite and clear, 8 or 9 is loud still, but not as brite, and from 8 down it gets quieter/less sharp. The tone knob is useful too, on 10 it sounds almost like a bridge position pup, rolled down, it has a nice mellow tone and all the way down is quite bassy/muddy, but might make for a great studio layering effect on its own track.........

Going through the stew-mac cat right now to find the right stuff for fix-up.

so ...for a tip, I am thrilled to say the least. I'll clean it up and start fixing it as I get some spare time this summer.

Pics as I go.

here's one of the tuner gears with a bent head.

^^ the back side

^^ Crack kills.....:/ Gotta address those too.

and here's the ones on the bottom.....

so, here she is, just out of the bag after who-knows how long. I'll clean it all up and take some more...

Headstock. ^^ I think its missing the tuner ferrules.

Decent shot of the binding, which is cracked away from the wood in a couple of spots and will need addressing.

and there's the DeArmond pup. It measures 7.65 and has a date of 1969 stamped on the back. According to the serial # look-up i found, the F56H stamp indicates a 1956 build. the serial # is 9548H954 and the F56H stamp is right near it. the pickguard is missing, but that's o.k.

Sometimes being a pool repairman pays off. ( only sometimes.... ) Today at work, I was given an old Harmony H954 as a tip ! This elderly gentleman who's pool we regularly service was outside making small talk and asked me what I liked to do for a hobby. I mentioned hunting and fishing, which led him to a few good stories, and I enjoyed listening to. I shared a fun story or two and the convo turned to music. He said he had an old guitar in his basement and asked me if I wanted it. Of course, I said I'd take it- site unseen, and was praying he was going to bring out a '59 Les Paul sunburst, but expecting a broken old 60's -sears-catalogue-special. He presented me with an old soft shell case and I opened it to reveal a nice-looking Harmony Broadway H954!! I dated it once I got home, and from what I can find, it was made in 1956. It has a DeArmond pup on it and still plays pretty good !

From what I've read, it's Birch, and it does have a nice, full tone. I can see it'll need some cracks repaired on the back, some Tuner refurbishing and some other love, but the little dings and crazing in the finish is going to be left alone.

Anyone have any experience with these? The DeArmond has a 1/8" output jack, so I'll need an adapter to use it. The neck has 6 dots and no side markers.

I'll post my specific questions in the proper section. This thread will be a resto-diary.

pics in a bit- just wanted to share my good fortune with y'all.

Wha kinda wood is that fretboard ??

........... It's a horrible skin irritant and I think it's mummifying my hands, but that's another issue.

the skin is the body's largest organ, and absorbs things into the bloodstream real good. I'd stop mummifying myself asap, if I was not you...... wait a minute....

Thanks for the idea! convertable slide/lapsteel/normal guitar. Cool beans.

Happy Birthday Wes. Hope it's a great one.

O.K., I'm happy to announce that the concept works perfectly. I strung the guitar up this afternoon and Viola! no glue, no screws, strung up and playin.

I will work on the 3rd version and post pics of them all together.

.......Anyway, I just thought it was an interesting idea and wondered if anyone's done it.

That's the statement that gets 90% of my experiments going.

I say " Do it and be the first ".... then be sure to let us know how it worked out.

Congrats John.

Well done, sir. Well done.

Lube!

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Green Lube....

or, in the pool industry, "Palm grease"..........

A Tele with a 'tude! I love it. Not every day you see a Floyd with a tele wrapped around it.

Killer looking finish too.

Good stuff.

.....and almost one year later, I pulled it down from its resting place and its "back to the birthing process".

The work I started doing on it got a bit botched, so I shelved it indefinitely.

The inside of it was painted with glow-in-the-dark paint, moons and stars cut into it like sound-holes, and I dropped the neck and made a nice ding in the edge of the fretboard..... Bass side, right at the 5th.

I used black dye and bahama blue to make a night-sky type of a shade, then sanded it all back ..... decided I sucked at building guitars and gave up on this one for a while.

since then, I have pulled out the other chambered guitar I was working on too, a flamed maple tele-type. ( which I also started F%^&ing up on... )

will do up some progress pics this weekend.

They're (built for) slide guitars.

That's SICK!!

... and in an utter act of accidental coolness, I can unscrew 2 screws and convert mine into the same type of creature.