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Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:23 am
by 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??
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:57 am
by jumpindave
Something tells me they were in the correct order to start with.
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:26 pm
by jingle_jangle
You mean his nibs?
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:48 pm
by kiramdear
Did Graham have triplets?
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:08 pm
by wints
Suck on this....
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:43 pm
by beatlefreak
So, Graham - Are you ever going to tell us the correct order?
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:27 pm
by jps
Maybe he will have them at MARF III all lined up.
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:32 am
by 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.............
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:34 am
by 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...............
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:35 am
by 8mileshigh
Finally.............a clean route................the 1957 solution............
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:36 am
by 8mileshigh
Right..........final question.........so which one's actually a Combo 600???
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:39 pm
by jps
Interesting that the crudest one (forstner bit) was not the first in the timeline!
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:59 pm
by 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...
Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:07 pm
by leftyguitars
These are the only 'combos' that Graham is really into...
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Re: Combo 800 timeline
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:46 am
by jingle_jangle
jps wrote: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.