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La Parisienne
Specs:
670 mm scale length
1 3/4″ wide at the nut
Traditionally carved neck
Quarter sawn Walnut neck, with the original Selmer headstock neck joint (this model features a truss rod access through soundhole)
Neck is fully adjustable.
Ebony Headplate
Spherical fret ends (as per the original Selmer/Maccaferri design)
Thick Ebony fingerboard
Solid quarter sawn spruce soundboard;...
Well we worked our tails off and managed to get together some extremely nice sounding guitars. We were very busy, and I have yet to post pics and info about the second and third weeks. I plan on sitting down over the next few days and go through the pictures and post them along with some info about our experience.
Here is a picture of the...
Easy Does It
The first week of the gypsy guitar building course has now come and gone, and we’ve made quite a bit of progress. We are building a total of six guitars. Brendan from California, and Philipp from Germany are building 14 fret D-hole guitars, while Andrew and myself are building two oval holes and one 14 fret D-hole each.We managed to get everyone’s rims together including...
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Andrew, checking out my Selmer style guitar body.
Visiting Flagstaff with the family to escape the Phoenix sumer
Bound Body
Selmer Oval rosette
Selmer Maccaferri style necks
We have been very busy and enduring the hot Phoenix summer and a massive Haboob (sandstorm) which came right over South Mountain and infiltrated the shop! Here...
We are making good progress with all of the jigs and templates for the Selmer/Maccaferri style guitar course. To test the jigs for the class we are making a couple of guitars. Here is a picture of the rim assembly of one guitar before the liners were installed. Although the weather here is getting quite hot we are looking forward to a successful first class,...