Eight out of ten owners prefer cats that help with the work. Yeah, right!



Happy New Year - C

Looks like Feline Supervision.

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For a second I thought the cat was sculpted out of a piece of wood lol

Every time I look at this I think WOW what a job cutting that. Ceri how are you doing with this cut of wood ?

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

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Hi man. Truthfully, not a lot more to show after this recent pic:



That's the first log sliced and stacked.

I sawed that one to 2 1/2 inch thicknesses, because I didn't trust my sawing and wanted a good margin for error. But actually I think my sawing ain't so bad - pretty straight - so the next logs I'll just do 2 inches thick. Less waste to remove when they finally turn into bodies. However, more planks per log - more sawing!

I'm continuing with that job at what we might call a leisurely pace...

I mentioned earlier that I also have a decent log of beech which I could slice up as well. But I don't remember ever coming across beech in guitar construction, with the single exception of mulit-piece maple and beech sandwiches used in the necks of Hofner Club guitars.

If anyone thinks there's a real use for beech in guitar building I'm ready to saw away at that log too. But I'm sure not gonna do it just for the fun of it!

Apart from that, the earlier batch of ash from 2007 is now finishing seasoning in my attic. Somewhere around Easter I'd like to try running up a body blank or two with it - my first bodies with my own timber! So I'll revive this thread at that time so's you can see how it goes.

Stay tooned!

Cheers - C

Sure looks like a lot of work Ceri! If anyone can do it you can! Do you still have the pear wood and have you decided what your plans are with it? You going to do the shaping when it gets to that point? Good luck and have fun! AS always looking foward to you posting your progress. Thanks for sharing!!!

Hi Hop: well, a couple of the better bits of the pear are finishing drying in the attic along with the first batch of ash.

I've a strong idea Gridlok knows what he's talking about with the warping issue, but nevertheless in a few months I'll at least saw it into neck blanks, plane them perfectly flat - and then leave them for a good long time to see how they behave. If they stay straight and flat then I'll risk shaping a neck as a try out.

Otherwise: late '50s my maternal grandfather set up a smoked food factory and I still have a small Norwegian fish smoker of his. Fruit wood is highly valued for smoking salmon, I believe!

I'll let you know...

Cheers - C

Just ran across this. Have no idea if it's true, but it seems to make sense. Got any apricot trees?

Gridlok

Hi Gridlok - haha, no: no apricot trees. Wrong climate - although I do have an olive and a lemon tree. The olive should be ready for timber in, oh, two or three hundred years. The lemon even sooner!

We also planted a couple of Cedars of Lebanon. The larger of those is now almost four feet high.

This guitar building is a waiting game...

- C