I haz wood

octatonic

What shall I build?

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Drove down to David Dyke's today- thoroughly nice chap and he loved Scarlett O'Hairy, who I took along with me.

I have a nice A grade rosewood back and sides (bargain at £47), AA grade Sitka spruce top, AAA rosewood fingerboard, bridge & headstock facing and some bracing.

The birdseye fingerboard isn't mine.

Sporky

An 11-string electric uke.

octatonic

Sporky said:

An 11-string electric uke.

Nop.

ArchtopDave

I guess you must have ideas, as the maximum size of the Body will be dependant on the dimensions of the Rosewood Wood that you've bought.

David Dyke is a real nice guy. I went all the way done to his place to pick out the wood that I used to make my Les Paul. He just showed me where the relevant stacks of wood were, and left me to my own devices for a couple of hours whilst I went through it all.

rpr

thinline archtop acoustic?

octatonic

ArchtopDave said:

I guess you must have ideas, as the maximum size of the Body will be dependant on the dimensions of the Rosewood Wood that you've bought.

David Dyke is a real nice guy. I went all the way done to his place to pick out the wood that I used to make my Les Paul. He just showed me where the relevant stacks of wood were, and left me to my own devices for a couple of hours whilst I went through it all.

I'm making a second parlour acoustic.

Already making one at the moment for my degree.

Decided to make two at once.

The first one is traditionally made- very few power tools, making the binding and rosette inlay by hand, thicknessing the back/sides/soundboard with a hand plane etc.

This one will be done with machines- thicknessing on a sander, using router for the binding etc.

To compare & contrast the traditional vs the modern method of building.

Sporky

ArchtopDave said:

David Dyke is a real nice guy. I went all the way done to his place to pick out the wood that I used to make my Les Paul. He just showed me where the relevant stacks of wood were, and left me to my own devices for a couple of hours whilst I went through it all.

I didn't have much idea what I was looking for, so we went over what I thought I might make and he picked out individual bits of timber for me - exactly what I needed. It's a bit far away and I found a decent local timber merchant, but if I'm in the area again I'll certainly pop in.

There was a brilliant grumpy/friendly chap who did the payment stuff too.

octatonic

Sporky said:

There was a brilliant grumpy/friendly chap who did the payment stuff too.

Mark?

Yes, he was hugely entertaining yesterday too.