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Michael Lewis, I am very sorry to hear of your loss. You have been a great help and inspiration over the years I have been part of this forum. I lost my entire shop to bankruptcy a couple years ago, or I would have tried to take on part of this project. But I would just screw the neck on and try to ...

Nice work! A labor of love.

Burnsville has been my home for more than 12 years. I will be teaching a workshop at the festival ("Making Your Guitar Swing"), and a few of my archtops will be on display. I will also be a volunteer for the event. Homeplace has good brews, and the show is in the upstairs of the same build...

Looks like a fun project. These old archtops are quite fascinating. I have worked on a few Kay and Harmony models, and their owners always treasure them, even though they are usually a wreck. It is a lot of fun to just bring them even part-way back to life. A few years ago, when I did some fixes on ...

Very nice. Clean and simple. I like the way the sound hole echos the shape and angle of the cutaway "horn".

Setup has been sold.

SOLD.

Foredom flexible shaft power tool - complete setup including two StewMac Precision Router Bases (One modified in an attempt to make it better for cutting binding channels), and a couple StewMac inlay router bits.

Asking $200 plus shipping.

Price Reduced - $200 plus shipping.

Binding Router setup with Porter Cable Lam Trimmer, StewMac Binding Router Bit Set. $250 plus shipping. Table and cradle not included. Cradle for 17" archtop available...

email is preferred - I don't get on here much anymore.

Beate Ritzert wrote:

Mark Langner wrote: 3) ...

Under string tension?

Yes, although not full tension. Judgement call.

As usual, Alan has covered some of the relevant theory quite clearly. I can only offer my own experience. 1) Early on, I tried one of the commercial, two-foot bridges. Based on some advice I found here, I added a full-contact, single foot to it, bridging the two feet. Result? More sound. Better soun...

Nice! And really nice to see something different. Have thought about a tenor archtop for way too long without acting on it...

Wow. Really nice work!

Guess I'd better get my sassafras (back and sides) and white pine (top) archtop done. Actually, I have done one archtop with a (mostly) white pine top (spruce strip down the center for artistic effect) and it's a gem.

Greg, With very limited building experience (14 and counting), I'm not sure I can isolate the sound of the wood as opposed to all the other variables I have only tenuous grasp of. That said, I have built two cherry instruments, and both are a little more bright-sounding than most others I have made....

Bravo!

Sweet! One of the nicest things I've seen here in a long time.

" I have seen kits with the do email already cut in the heel block."

There's a fun auto-correct, I assume! (do email = dovetail?)

Interesting question, as I find the dovetail jig one of the less stable and most difficult to use of any I have made.

Amen, Michael Lewis.