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what he hell???? :lol: :D reminds me of that commercial for the snuggly blankets with arms. We were going to buy some of those and answer the door when my parents came for Christmas wearing them and say......oh hi! "We were just finishing a meeting with some friends........would you like some c...

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Thanks for the thoughts all. I located a nice Guild through a friend who said I could have it. It needs a neck adjustment and setup and will be more than great for him. I have made a hobby out of grabbing guitars here and there, fixing them up and gifting to my students and churches and such. This o...

So I got a repair from a very nice family. They have very little money, and they were directed by someone to spend $300 dollars on an ESTIBAN guitar!!!!!!! 300!! 3 freaking hundred!!!!!!! This poor kid has fingers that are bleeding because of the razor blade fret ends on this POS. The action is abou...

looks like progress. The top seems to be nice...lots of medular ray saturation. Back looks good..a but heavy braced for my taste, but clean. The back wood looks very flat sawn...where diid it come from? You don't see a lot of Luthier flat sawn mahogany these days...no need for it yet really.

Hey bro.....I would love to use that board, but I am not certain either if it will work for what we need. I need to do smome calculating here and see exactly where we are at.
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Thanks so much for chiming in on this Todd! You are the neck through pimp! You work is stunning to me. I have no experience with neckthrough construction, I have only owned and play them. I mentioned walnut to show the color stripe we are looking for.....actually anything dark brown will work....he ...