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		<title>Wintergrass &#8211; come and gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 28, 2010
Wintergrass concludes today.  Four days in the Spruce Room (Instrument Makers) where the Seattle Luthier&#8217;s Group set up a display flanked by mandolin makers, banjo makers, violin and bow makers.
We seemed to have crashed the bluegrass party as most of our guitars were decidedly not within the paradigm of bluegrass appropriate (i.e., dreadnoughts).  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar 905 and 906</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 14, 2010
Just finished application of the sixth coat of lacquer for both guitars.  Minimum of 6 more coats before setting aside to cure for 7 to 14 days.

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		<title>Guitar 905 and 906 &#8211; A few new images</title>
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		<title>Guitar 905 and 906 &#8211; Second Pass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 5, 2010
Waited a few hours then went back into spray booth to apply second coat of sanding sealer.



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		<title>Guitar 905 and 906 &#8211; Sanding Sealer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 5, 2010
Ventured into the new spray booth today for the first time.  Got both guitars sanded down and masked and applied first sanding sealer coat of lacquer.  After it dries I&#8217;ll give a quick scuff of scotch-brite before applying the pore filler.  I should be able to do a first coat of pore filler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar 905 and 906 &#8211; Neck shaping, end graft, fretboard install</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 19, 2010
Doubling up on two guitars is working well, as the tasks I perform on one are repeated on the other and the muscle memory benefits both.  After installing the neck bolts I moved on to further shaping of the necks and fine tuning the joint between the neck and the body.  Getting both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar 905 and 906 &#8211; Neck shaping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 17, 2010
Moving on to the necks, the first step is to install the neck inserts.  I use bolt on necks vs. dovetail joints as they are infinitely more adaptable to future repairs/resets.

The rough shaping was done a while ago, so after the neck mortise was defined and the inserts installed, the necks are shaped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wintergrass Exhibition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 15, 2010
I certainly will have 905 and 906 ready for exhibition at Wintergrass in February, but I&#8217;m thinking through what might be the appropriate guitars for exhibit.  I can borrow back Larry&#8217;s Green OM, Beth&#8217;s Koa OM, and Carol&#8217;s Parlor.  I also have the Zebrawood resonator.  That&#8217;s 6 guitars.  I think I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar 905 and 906 &#8211; Fair and Square</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 15, 2010
I don&#8217;t like to fair and square, but I do like the end result.  The fair and square step is to bring the box down to its final shape/dimension after the binding has been installed and before the neck angle is determined.  The binding and top, sides and back need to be flush, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar 905 and 906 &#8211; Headstock Preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 11, 2010

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