3 Guitars for Elkins, WV Event
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 5:10 pm
I thought it would be easier to put the 3 guitars that I'm building for a gathering of West Virginia luthiers this month. I received an invitation to this event a couple of months ago.
The event is being held on Oct 19, during the Old-time Fiddlers Reunion, at the Madden Center on the Davis and Elkins College Campus. This yearly stringed instrument event, is a wonderful event, which includes a week-long workshop. The State of West Virginia is paying for my travel expenses.
The invitation surprised and humbled me. It's also got me plenty scared. I don't know that my work is good enough to be exhibited. There are scores of acoustic guitar players that attend this event. They're setting up an area and table for me. I'm very excited.
I've just gotten done french polishing and building up the shellac on the guitars that I'm making to take with me. I'm also taking "Delilah", the second guitar that I made, which is made entirely of woods from West Virginia, so I'm taking a total of 4 guitars.
1. Delilah is a 00 (sort of) Cherry/Appalachian red spruce
2. EIR/torrified adirondack Dreadnought, with the rose vine inlaid fretboard which I designed and inlaid
3. Honduran mahogany/Appalachian red spruce OM
4. Quilted Honduran mahogany/Appalachian red spruce OM, with hummingbird vine fretboard that I designed and inlaid.
As you can see, I've made the boxes and I've fitted the necks. I've glued the fretboards. I've glued the rose vine fretboard, which is the first design that I've designed and cut myself, on the dreadnought. I will be inlaying the hummingbird vine on the fretboard that will go to the quilted Honduran mahogany OM. I will inlay white mother of pearl dots into the plainer Honduran mahogany guitar.
I've adopted the name, "Country Roads Guitars" and I've worked on a logo. I will be inlaying a simple shape, with the name across the top of the headstock.
My progress has been slow. I'm disabled, so I build at the rate of a sloth. But everything is made, and fitted together and I've been french polishing. There is a 4th guitar that I'm being paid to french polish, so I'm doing a total of 4 guitars at a time right now, as well as working on the hummingbird vine so I can inlay it.
The event is being held on Oct 19, during the Old-time Fiddlers Reunion, at the Madden Center on the Davis and Elkins College Campus. This yearly stringed instrument event, is a wonderful event, which includes a week-long workshop. The State of West Virginia is paying for my travel expenses.
The invitation surprised and humbled me. It's also got me plenty scared. I don't know that my work is good enough to be exhibited. There are scores of acoustic guitar players that attend this event. They're setting up an area and table for me. I'm very excited.
I've just gotten done french polishing and building up the shellac on the guitars that I'm making to take with me. I'm also taking "Delilah", the second guitar that I made, which is made entirely of woods from West Virginia, so I'm taking a total of 4 guitars.
1. Delilah is a 00 (sort of) Cherry/Appalachian red spruce
2. EIR/torrified adirondack Dreadnought, with the rose vine inlaid fretboard which I designed and inlaid
3. Honduran mahogany/Appalachian red spruce OM
4. Quilted Honduran mahogany/Appalachian red spruce OM, with hummingbird vine fretboard that I designed and inlaid.
As you can see, I've made the boxes and I've fitted the necks. I've glued the fretboards. I've glued the rose vine fretboard, which is the first design that I've designed and cut myself, on the dreadnought. I will be inlaying the hummingbird vine on the fretboard that will go to the quilted Honduran mahogany OM. I will inlay white mother of pearl dots into the plainer Honduran mahogany guitar.
I've adopted the name, "Country Roads Guitars" and I've worked on a logo. I will be inlaying a simple shape, with the name across the top of the headstock.
My progress has been slow. I'm disabled, so I build at the rate of a sloth. But everything is made, and fitted together and I've been french polishing. There is a 4th guitar that I'm being paid to french polish, so I'm doing a total of 4 guitars at a time right now, as well as working on the hummingbird vine so I can inlay it.