A Birdie Challenge

Started by birdie, January 16, 2010, 12:57:16 PM

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birdie

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Nocturnal

WOW!!!!! That turned out beautiful!!!!!
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE BAT
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Lightyear


Freuds_Cat


Lumpy looks fantastic Birdie. I love the styling



Quote from: birdie on February 03, 2010, 09:49:44 PM
Enough of my 6 banger already!! The following is being built by Ed's student that preceded me (he already built his pre-requisite archtop guitar, which is damn nice BTW.



I like this one too but to me it looks like it would have benefited asthetically and sonically from a pair of Humbuckers. Just my view.
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Daniel_J

Congrats!

Really great job, it's miles (and miles, and miles, and miles...) away better than my first build - heck, it's better than the work I do now!

So, how does she sound?!!! Pluged and unpluged?

birdie

Thank you all! I feel like my head was sliced open and they put a fire hose of knowledge  in there- I've now got to remember all the steps I did in the making of #1 here, and try it all over again :o. Am recalling when I first got my private pilots license- the "license to learn". I now know just enough to be REALLY dangerous with a router ....
And yes, that bass would have looked fantastic w/ hummers.. the future owner requested that layout. They are nordstrands though, killer sounding pickups.
A bass is next. Already started it, and trying some new (for me) things....
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birdie

BTW Daniel, I have rounds on it. Not very traditional on a jazzbox. Unplugged it sounds clear and toppy, not overly loud. It is after all a rather small -for an archtop- guitar. 15 in. bout.
When I plug it in, she just killed me! Sounds somewhere between a 335 and a lester w/ paf's....
The pup is a Kent Armstrong paf, appropriately enough. Thank you for the kind words!
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Basvarken

Incredible!

I am awestruck.

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godofthunder

Beautiful, beautiful work !
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Pilgrim

Absolutely lovely....I bow in your direction (whatever it is)!
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Basshappi

Birdie, that instrument is absolutely awe-inspiring, congratulations!
That bass your fellow student is building looks wonderful too though I agree that soapbars would "look" a bit better.
What's your next project?
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birdie

Quote from: Pilgrim on March 19, 2010, 09:02:30 AM
Absolutely lovely....I bow in your direction (whatever it is)!

you would have to bow to the south by southwest. but honestly, that wont be necessary!
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birdie

Quote from: Basshappi on March 19, 2010, 03:06:32 PM
Birdie, that instrument is absolutely awe-inspiring, congratulations!
That bass your fellow student is building looks wonderful too though I agree that soapbars would "look" a bit better.
What's your next project?

this right here;



roughed out the body and neck,and the headstock is taking shape.
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Dave W


drbassman

Wow, excellent!  I'm working toward doing something that nice in the future too.  For me, the finishing is a pain, but once I put a concrete floor in my barn this spring, I'll have more painting options.  Nice job!
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