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Detailed Selmer Pictures?
paulmcevoy75
Portland, MaineNew
Is there a set of detailed Selmer pictures around somewhere? Particularly pictures of the inside-the-box construction and the bracing?
Thanks
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at least a few luthiers have shared their entire process on YT, this is one of them
Yeah, here's another video series. This guy uses a little more advanced tools than just handworking, but this particular video hows the braces as he forms the top.
Leo Eimers always has great pix on his Facebook page.
thanks guys! That's helpful. I'm mostly looking for some original Selmac pics, maybe from a restoration?
yeah definitely some good restoration pictures here, thanks!!!
The Story of Selmer Maccaferri Guitars
by Francis Charlie has a lot of them - hard to find a copy fo this book these days I guess.
1.65kg is notable, ~3.63 pounds, that’s very light. I have measured a bunch of nice GJ guitars over the last year or more and all of them have been quite a bit heavier. Closest was a Barault 503 replica @3.84lb but everything else was 4.0-4.3 pounds.
if anybody has weighed a nice GJ in at under 1.65kg, please identify that.
Shimmed nut (which on a zero-fret axe is a no-op).
G and D strings touch the headstock, which is typical.
Action looks high in the swish-cam shot (I like high).
Appreciate this video but critical-focus HD stills would have been better.
Bridge looks like a quality recent replacement.