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Original message:542 days 8 hours 33 minutes ago

Member: Captain Fantastic

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I tend to get wordy, like Wordsworth, even though I wish it could be like Vonnegut. Short and sweet this time...what do you cats have to say about custom makers? I want to get another guitar but I wanted it to be something truly ridiculous! Great design, playability, woods, electro-magnetics and such. What obscure makers do you connoisseurs of string-ed beauty know of that still build by hand and machine their own parts? Bring it!

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I enjoy skinny skiing, heckling figure skaters, flamenco guitar, the blue stuff you put your combs in, good drummers, focaccia bread and coffee out of a french press

Reply:540 days 20 hours 8 minutes ago
Member: mattguitar

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Do you mean who here makes guitars? I'm in the process of building a guitar to donate to Relay for Life for an auction. Check out my progress at mattguitar.wordpress.com

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Reply:540 days 9 hours 57 minutes ago
Member: Captain Fantastic

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I'm looking forward to seeing this guitar come together. Very cool idea for a great cause!

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I enjoy skinny skiing, heckling figure skaters, flamenco guitar, the blue stuff you put your combs in, good drummers, focaccia bread and coffee out of a french press

Reply:511 days 5 hours 54 minutes ago
Member: Alec Lee

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Depending on how lenient you are with the whole "by hand" think, you might check out Joe Driskill (driskillguitars.com). I have one of his guitars and hope he'll finish another one for me soon. Even though he uses CNCs, he does wacky (but cool) things like machining his trems from a single piece of brass. Same with the pickup rings. Trem and control covers are made out of carbon fiber with wood laminated on them to maintain a consistent look on the back of the guitar.

There are some more pix of my Driskill at aleclee.com/cms/content/view/15/34/

Reply:510 days 6 hours 34 minutes ago
Member: BadJaxx

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check out Chafin guitars...

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Reply:510 days 6 hours 18 minutes ago
Member: Grensley

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i'm gonna try my hand at building one...i've got some of the plans worked out...these things are so precise in some areas and in others it doesn't matter what you do. (go look at an xplorer guitar)

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