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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2016 11:11:54 GMT -6
It's hard to let go of them... I often think of the guitars I build and sold. I wonder how they are holding up. There are only 2 of the ones I built that I get to work on once in a while. The is to check them out and making sure they are doing well. Sometimes I get to chang the strings on them. HA! EB
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Post by antares on Jan 24, 2016 3:31:32 GMT -6
I've "built" five Leo types. I would cheerfully let them go, but the knowledge that they are all worth more "parted out" and to sell them would incur such a loss as to make someone a massive bargain (and being so "cheap" they would perhaps unconsciously abuse them) means they stay on my wall. I need to have a cathartic thinning of the herd, but cannot bring myself to do it. Too many years and too much water under the bridge. And, I must admit- it's like walking into a guitar shop in my dedicated instrument room. Your neck through "Nighthawk" was an absolute beauty Dane and several orders of magnitude better than I could do. It deserved to sell and I am pleased that you showed some profit. Since it was not a commision, that makes it all the more impressive- you have a good grip on the zeitgeist.
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Post by dnic on Jan 24, 2016 14:40:57 GMT -6
Antares, since I build these planning to sell them parting isn't really an issue though I do like the idea that this one is staying local, so like Eddie I will be able to do check ups on it.
I have always built guitars that interest me and that I would enjoy owning. A lot of my builds, I feel, transcend decades and design concepts and textures. I need to step outside my comfort zone and build a shred machine but if it doesn't sell then I have a guitar I would probably never play. I'm thinking a stylized Explorer kind of thing with a trem and compound radius fretboard. I had no idea Kahler trem's cost over 300$
Thanks for the kind words
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Jan 28, 2016 18:08:30 GMT -6
Dane - Kahlers are expensive.
Sadly, I've learned that you have to build what you can sell if you want to sell it. I tend to build what I like...perhaps I'll find a design that accomplishes both!
John
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 18:50:13 GMT -6
Well, you all know I pretty much build what I like. But it is them builds that let to custom builds for other people. Even the guitars that i get hold of that are production guitars, once I do my thing to them, people play them and want their guitars to play like then. So I get guitars to work on or they end up buying one of my reworked guitars. But, for now i am getting out od buying and selling guitars. I just sold off the last 3 guitars and don't plan on buying or trading for anymore. The wife and I well be retired this year and plan on going on a long vacation. EB
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Jan 30, 2016 0:32:41 GMT -6
Eddie - are you really going to give it up this time? I'm thinking you can't just go cold turkey!
John
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Post by antares on Jan 30, 2016 3:52:46 GMT -6
Eddie "owes" us that acoustic build!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2016 9:30:06 GMT -6
I do have two guitar builds that i would like to do this summer. One is my take on the Nighthawk, and the other one is an acoustic that I see in my head. LOL! But I don't know if I'll get to do both. Like I said, the wife and I want to do some traveling, and go see our kid and 11 grand kids. I have not seen them now for the last 5 years. So it's time to go see them. But yes John, I am quitting the buying and selling on the scale that I had been. Guess I'm burned out with it. Here is one reason. Not too long ago, I had a guy over and he started out by knocking all my guitars, he got so bad, I had to tell him to leave. I also had a guy that got mad at me for not wanting to make a trade with him. These two were just in one week of each other. Also tired of people that try and buy a guitar that is worth 400 and only wanting to give me 50 to 100 dollars for the guitar, and then telling me, that they have seen them for that price around town. I always tell them, they should have bought it then, because you are not getting this one for that. Then the other ones are the ones that think a "Kustom made guitar" is wroth nothing... They have this idea if don't have the big names on them then they are junk! (NOT SO) I do plan on working on guitars. I like doing that, I had to tell some that rebuilding a guitar is not a set up. LOL! But other than that I make more on working in guitars than building them.
So I guess John, I', not giving it up cold turkey, just interning yet another faze in my life.
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Post by dnic on Jan 30, 2016 11:36:30 GMT -6
I just built my first cigar box guitar and of course I went a little overboard. Most of the ones I've seen online use a 1x2 piece of oak fret less and flat for a neck. I used Bolivian rosewood, fretted and radiused. Can't load pics anymore so use your imagination.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2016 16:07:41 GMT -6
Cool Dane! I too go over the top with them. I built a 4 string with a 12" radius, but it has no truss rod in it. But the neck is an all mahogany neck. I am wanting to make a video of it, so I can try and sell it. I also use Tele neck pickups.They sound really good and are easy to mount in a cigar box. I have not made one yet with no frets. EB
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Post by hoz on Feb 3, 2016 15:44:15 GMT -6
Boy, this thread got off topic! Congrats on the sale Dane!
I keep threatening to build a winebox guitar, but I get into too many repair projects I guess, haha!
I wanted to comment to Antares, I know how you feel. I've put together a couple guitars I feel I am their care taker while I'm alive, haha. Nobody else could appreciate them like I do.
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Feb 4, 2016 21:53:06 GMT -6
True, Chris...but I enjoy the conversations!
John
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2016 9:20:45 GMT -6
Not a lot going on with this build. I have been...Well lets say unable to work on it. Plus we will be going vacation soon. So This project and my cigar box bass will be put on hold for a while.
EB
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on May 20, 2016 10:38:52 GMT -6
Let us know, Eddie.
John
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Post by dnic on Jun 20, 2017 21:01:43 GMT -6
Well folks it's a momentous day, the Nighthawk has flown. The buyer just showed up with the payoff a year and five months to the day after the down payment. He really likes the 9 string as well but I don't think that's gonna happen.
Oh well just some closure.
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