Build Your Own

pallopenna

I believe that it's in its final proofs.

-Paul

ViejoVato

helllo all and congratulations on traveling down the make-it-yourself path ...
It's not for everyone, but can be very satisfying ...
I made a good harmonica michrophone out of a Gerber's baby bottle and a $2 ceramin mic element ... it works well and looks cool .. I'll post up a picture in the future ...

Meantime, a short post on Mr. Collins and his book... all good things are worth waiting for, and his book, if it is even close to the quality of his guitars will be worth the wait.

Tha being said, you are all invited to come out to Django Fest SouthWest the weekend of May 12 - 14th and meet Michael and attend his workshop. There are still raffle tickets available for one of his Favino style guitars. Details here:
www.dfsw.net
check the link at left.
$10 a pop with a max 320 tickets. Why wait 6 months...

Load up the van and c'mon out for some great GJ pickin' all under beautiful arizona stars ....

ciao and good luck with all the projects ..
ViejoVato
milz & debs
Rancho LocaRosa

Craig Bumgarner

Cutting the small oval hole & rosette.......

I'm at this point and am looking for the best way to do this. I'd appreciate any insight. I am familiar with Shelley Park article in Guitarmaker where she discusses making a top for a Selmer style. She uses router templates for both the hole and the rosette, but there is not a lot of detail or pictures in the article.

There are lots of jigs and methods out there for round holes, but these small ovals are quite different. Any thoughts?

Craig

Josh Hegg

I did mine with a dremal, flat bit and a good base. Scored the shape with my violin knife and then got it close with the dremal. Then cleaned it up by hand. It came out better then I thought it would but not as clean as the next one will. It was by far not as hard as I thought it was going to be.

Cheers,
Josh

ramsezaz

Hi all,
I'm in the process of making my own selmac.
I'm currently only at the begining, but I started a blog to describe the process while I discover it.
It's in french, but I tried to put as many meaningful pictures as possible so that might be useful to someone.

here is the url : http://ramsezaz.blogspot.com

Bohemian

good start

I'll be watching

Digger

Here is my first Petit Bouche ready for polishing. I hope the photo upload business works.

Digger

Blimey! It worked. Here's another.

Digger

Owing to the deluge of interest, here's the finished article.
For a first one I'm quite chuffed.

Jack

Looks nice! It seems to have a good wide neck, which I've always liked. You should post some sound files!

Best,
Jack.