Moderator: jingle_jangle
Noooooo! Please, give Paul a little more time to get my amp crated and ready for my truck to come pick it up, THEN he can take an undetermined time to present photos of his latest works of art and magic!jingle_jangle wrote:Yes, I've got some cool stuff. Give me an undetermined time to get some pics...
Yes, I have been taking it on the chin so long that I figured that I might as well put my best chin forward. That is how I look in real life, you know! What, do you think my Matt Frewer impersonation is actually convincing? If so, give credit to my wife, who worked on the makeup for Mr. Photoshop for days it seems....melibreits wrote:Cool.... Is it going to be yours, Elys?
Not that one - but, Paul IS working on two special acoustics for me, though. One will be a 6-string and the other a 12-string, both 700C jumbos, all the options plus a surprise or two
It looks like it's going to be a real beauty!
Paul is a true genius among Einsteins, that is "fer sure"....
BTW, I like your avatar.... Elys Headroom? Somehow it seems to fit!
Heh - I thought about a cool South Park shot too, Jeffrey, but the way things have been going, I would have wound up being Mr. Hanky......jps wrote:What, you haven't seen what Elys really looks like, Melissa? You think that's Max Headroom?
Thanks for being kind. I could not tell from that one small photo of that section if it was or was not. But I sure did not expect a Jazzbo, since you told me you could not make me one back in Februaryjingle_jangle wrote:It's a Jazzbo, Melissa, and from that one photo, the true top curvature cannot be seen, Elys. But it will be a very special Jazzbo, because the depth of the body is a full 1/2" deeper than the one I measured. As a friend noted, "This one will speak with authority!".
Ah! I knew I had not seen that touch on the one on the wall at RIC...jingle_jangle wrote:Both the top and back are hand-carved to a true German carve profile, from photos of the Jazzbo at RIC which I took last November. The top and back are each about 4mm thick at their centers, and thicken up at their attachment points around the edges, to 6mm. The top is carved from one bookmatched flitch of Englemann spruce, which was wedged and center-glued. At this point (pre-carving) it was 7/8" thick at center and 3/8" deep at sides and weighed about 3 pounds. The back was done the same way, but from nicely-figured maple. When glued up, before carving, the back weighed about 5 pounds. The back was tap-tuned 1/2 tone higher than the front, and the glued-up body already has a wonderful resonance.
After carving and planing, there was a floor filled with shavings, and the front weighed something like 8 ounces and the back about 12. The whole body now is incredibly strong, and weighs maybe 2 1/2-3 pounds with mahogany neck and tail blocks in place and two longitudinal maple braces under the top, 4" apart. It's all assembled with traditional hide glue. The dovetail has been cut and the neck roughed, and neck angle will be set next.
The pre-bent and pre-glued "hoop" or "garland" as some call it, was given me by John Hall last year, and was one of a few Jazzbo sub-assemblies that were completed but never became guitars at the factory. The carving was started early this year (I think it was April), and the body was only glued up last month. So that's about six months, a few hours a week here and there.
The sound holes I decided had to be a bit different, so I shaped them somewhere between the Jazzbo at RIC, which is a bit conservative, and the 390, which really has a scimitar curve to the binding tip.
Of course it is a one-off, and only for The Master Himselfjingle_jangle wrote:I do not have permission to build any more than this one Jazzbo, BTW. This one will go into my collection and will of course be played and maintained for special occasions. Plan to see it at the next local RIC shindig, as I hope to have it completed around Christmas if I get enough time.
What finishes have you considered? Inquiring minds want to know..... But it will be a very special Jazzbo ....
