Combo 800 timeline

[ozover50]

Geez........ when this is all over I want to see a Graham Griffiths timeline!!

Like, you know......... what did his third nipple look like at age 10, 21 and 40??

[jumpindave]

Something tells me they were in the correct order to start with.

[jingle_jangle]

You mean his nibs?

[kiramdear]

Did Graham have triplets?

[wints]

Suck on this....

[beatlefreak]

So, Graham - Are you ever going to tell us the correct order?

[jps]

Maybe he will have them at MARF III all lined up.

[8mileshigh]

I wish I could bring them out to MARF!

Well...........here we go then..........to my eye.........the most elegant solution was the 1954 recess with the carved bracing...........the earlist in our timeline.............

[8mileshigh]

It's conjecture now..........but maybe someone said........"these things are taking forever to carve"......."how can we speed things up?"...............hence we have Captain Swisscheese............2nd in the timeline...............

[8mileshigh]

Finally.............a clean route................the 1957 solution............

[8mileshigh]

Right..........final question.........so which one's actually a Combo 600???

[jps]

Interesting that the crudest one (forstner bit) was not the first in the timeline!

[kiramdear]

Makes sense to me. First time out you want to do something really grand, then you ask "isn't there a faster way to do this, I lost my shirt on that first one". So the workmanlike response too rough for some, then you backtrack, rethink it and simplify the rout for economy. I could imagine something like that going on...

[leftyguitars]

These are the only 'combos' that Graham is really into...

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[jingle_jangle]

Interesting that the crudest one (forstner bit) was not the first in the timeline!

Gretsch still goes the Forstner "rout(e)" for its Duo-Jets and Pro Jets. They must remove all of a couple of ounces (in the case of the Gretsches).

When I built Aitch's deVille from a new Pro Jet, I removed the back and took all of the wood out to within 1/2" of the edges. Then I slimmed it by 1/2" and put a new back on. The guitar lost a couple of real pounds. I was ankle-deep in shavings.

The Forstner way with the 600/800 still left about 30-40% of the wood in place. I'll bet the other two are lighter, with the earliest one the lightest of all.