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with very narrow string spacing

Is this a Bass guitar, perhaps a typing error, 25" maybe, or if it is correct your 6' 7" with long arms maybe he's buckethead?

35" scale??

i don't think the green would clash man! itd be like any other green guitar with a natural neck, hell look at the JEM's back in the day, bright green with a natural neck, hell even maple fretboard, they looked incredible. i vote to leave the back of the neck unfinished, oil that bia up.

thanks man, you do good work yourself

http://www.elysian-online.com/ConcurrentRGA7s/dscf5172.jpg heres the mahogany one in about 4 coats of tung oil. still have a few more coats to do, but i love the way that african mahogany looks.

if this build turns out as great as its already shaping up, maybe future GOTM

damn dude, that top is sexy. what kind of finish is this thing getting? i hope its a lacquer finish, that top is great!

i'm in debt about 15k, because of all the money i spent doing all the extra non-graded work i did. thats not counting my room and board, that was all out of pocket(thank god for the GI Bill)

so thats at a community college? seems like you could also take business classes while there, this vid is pretty cool so far.

there are definitely other schools worth considering, i didn't really find out about others until i was already at roberto-venn. there are some schools that are much longer too, and i'd imagine you'd get much more out of a school that isn't a very compressed 5 months.

the "business" portion of roberto-venn, was about 1 day long out of the entire 5 month course, and was so vague, i honestly got nothing from it. you can learn about jigs online, they don't have a whole lot of different jigs there, and time management, like i said, some people didnt' even complete the course requirements, the school is pretty relaxed, which, while not a bad thing, doesn't really do anything to make people finish their work. you've probably learned more in 5 years of building than you'd learn in the 5 months at roberto-venn. i've been doing my own repair work on my instruments for 12 years(10 years before i went to RV), so in that portion of the class, it was just more practice for me, nothing new. in the end, its your money, but having been there myself, and having talked to other people who have gone there, and other people who have hired people who went to RV, these are my opinions, and i'm definitely entitled to them.

blow it out your ass dude. i did more work than most anyone there, i got a lot out of it, but a guy like jon wouldn't. you've got the worst reading comprehension of anyone on the entire internet. its not worth dumping over 10 grand into, especially if you only learn one thing. the scope of the course is so limited, anything you learn beyond it is things you have to figure out on your own. 30 people in one class, and there is only 3 construction methods for electrics, and only 1 for acoustic, you don't get to try anything, its carefully controlled, thats why all the guitars you tend to see on the RV site are standard fender/gibson/prs type stuff, thats what they teach. you're entire post irked me, you're entirely ignorant on the subject, and it was all just subjective garbage. get real.

luthiery school won't give you any more credibility than the builds you're already doing. in my opinion, keep doing what you're doing, you're going to get to school and find you aren't learning anything. my certificate from roberto-venn means nothing to most people, and if it does mean anything to anyone, its that they think that i think i'm a master luthier because i went to roberto-venn, and a lot people who come out of there tend to have that attitude. i'd really think it over, cause its really not worth all that money if you already have the skills. nothing gives you more credibility than the guitars you're already building. and i gotta say man, i've trucked my guitars to all the shops around here, trying to get in as a tech, and none of them are interested, the only way i've gotten to make money off what i do is going solo, and i'm glad i did. going to roberto-venn helped me a bit, because i didn't know anything about fret work, or much about the actual construction of a guitar, hell i even got more guitars built than anyone in my class, but if i were where you are right now, i'd have never gone, it wouldn't even be a thought in my mind. hell ask mike sherman what he thinks of roberto-venn... its part of the reason there are too many luthiers out there, and its hard to find a job. also, once you graduate, it doesn't matter if your top of the class, you don't get anything special out of that, and no one cares in the outside world what you graduated at. there were some guys who didn't even complete the basic course requirements at roberto-venn and still graduated. i'm not sure where you're planning on going, but if its RV, i'd consider somewhere else, that school is a bit of a joke overall...

what do you feel you'll get from luthiery school that you aren't already getting building on your own? i don't honestly feel like, with the caliber your builds seem to be, that you even need luthiery school.

heres a shot in the sun, still got about 3 more coats today.

case in point, here it is in the booth. i'm also using some quilt maple 1/42" thick veneer i got off ebay for the headstock, it looks phenomenal.

yeah, but my color coat will make up for that it looks bitchin right now in the spray booth.

heres the quilt top RGA7 in stain before i sanded it back down, kind of a sneak peak in a ways. http://www.elysian-online.com/ConcurrentRGA7s/IMG00269.jpg used the ferrules from my RG7421 to figure out the depth to drill to, the ones i ordered from stewmac are the same type and size.

woah i really dig that shape!

i don't see why thered be a problem...

actually, my username was a tentative name brand, but then i found out its actually a company in London, UK, so i changed it to Elysian Custom Guitars.

yeah, i do this 7 days a week, i think i'm beyond full time but yes, this is my only means of income.

i think the guy with the mahogany one is gonna be using an Evo7, could be wrong. i'm going to finish the quilt top one up with a D-Sonic 7 and an Air Norton 7. i just pore filled the quilt top one.

http://www.elysian-online.com/ConcurrentRG...rentRGA7s13.jpg started shielding the cavities.