Wedding gift

[ruby@magpage.com]

Just finished a project. My lovely daughter got married and I made them a wedding gift. They live in a 750 ft2 apartment in Manhattan, NY, with floor space at a premium, so we settled on a wall cabinet. I had never fully appreciated the design of James Krenov, but scrolling through cabinet images for inspiration, some of them hit me. My daughter repairs guitars, so how about a bit of guitar influence in the cabinet? It would be real easy to carry this whole thing too far, so I tread(ed?) lightly

1) here is what I came up with. My inspiration was Gibson's early arch topped guitars. The veneer was put on with a hand powered vacuum pump which was cheap and would be great for a few luthiery jobs like bridge and brace gluing

2) The back is Sitka Spruce from Alaska Specialty Woods and I put a sunburst on it

3) The pulls are Brazilian Rosewood radiused to 16" on both sides with fretwire for a grip

I am in the habit of taking a lot of shots with my guitars so I can do next time what I did this time (or avoid it), so here are too-many shots of this thing. Great fun doing coopered doors and veneering for the first time.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/ ... 524329895/

Ed

[Danl8]

Really nice. No doubt she will enjoy the cabinet for a long time.

[tippie53]

nice job love that figure

[johnnparchem]

Nice!

[Kevin Sjostrand]

Beautiful ED, but where are the strings?
Any wedding pics?

[ruby@magpage.com]

Thanks all for the comments
They were married at an 1850's lighthouse sticking out into the Hudson River at Saugerties NY.

Ed

[Diane Kauffmds]

Beautiful job Ed. Congratulations on her marriage.