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(17,003 posts)really nice woodworking tools.
ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)And guy is this video has skills.
It's not that easy to make a semi-hollow in the first place.
Then, he basically using wood that would otherwise be scrap!
Pretty cool!
The guy I know actually had a patent issued for a bracing pattern on a doubleneck acoustic.
That guitar was gorgeous!
LAS14
(13,783 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Who loves to take scrap and making something out of it. He has a room full of guitars!
niyad
(113,284 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,816 posts)Thanks.
Shermann
(7,413 posts)Sorry, I had to be "that guy".
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)JDC
(10,127 posts)Ahpook
(2,750 posts)I think quite a few people have gained creative minds during this lockdown?
A friend and I morphed a Baja Telecaster into a double humbucker, front and back binding jam machine
I'd load some photos, but not sure how. Seems tricky on here? I've loaded them easily to luthier sites to discuss the build.
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)... copy the image link and post that. Right click open image in New tab, copy the link from the address bar. It should be a .jpg or .bmp or .png , something like that.
Delete any characters after the .jpg, .bmp, .png, or the like. Especially a ? mark and text after it.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)These vids are always fun to watch.
Lutherie is a dark art, learned over countless hours of work. I don't have the patience or persistence for it, but I'm sure glad that some do.
NNadir
(33,516 posts)...more importantly impressive skill.
He's obviously quite a professional.
My wife and I were fascinated.
Thanks!!!
Tikki
(14,557 posts)Talented builder. Wish we could have seen more of his little helper.
I LOVE GUITARS.
Tikki
calimary
(81,238 posts)Just like that guitar is!
tclambert
(11,085 posts)(It's a Brian May joke.)
pansypoo53219
(20,975 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Not to mention his mad skills. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Paladin
(28,254 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)To end up with a guitar that sounds like it was made out of a bookshelf.
1plus1equals1
(205 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)He emigrated to the USA from Serbia as a violin maker in the late fifties. He was once asked to build a guitar, and had no clear idea of how to go about it. So he played it by ear, and by chance happened upon a formula that gave his guitars, especially his 12 string guitars, a sound that has never really been duplicated. I asked him to make me a matching pair in 1999 (completed in 2000), and these were the last ones he ever made for me. The first he made for me were in the mid 1970s. He passed in 2015, but his instruments and their legendary sound survive. Here is that matching pair:
musette_sf
(10,200 posts)Recognized them right away.
http://bozosguitars.yolasite.com/
DFW
(54,370 posts)Boo Podunavac. His name, pronounced "Paw-doo-NAH-vats," just means "south of the Danube," which his home town of Novi Sad indeed is.
I met him in February of 1977, when he still had his studio in Escondido, California. I had him build me various instruments over the years, and this matching pair was the last commission work he did for me. I recently bought an experimental "owl" 12 string of which he made three back in 1979. One went to Peter Lang, one went to Leo Kottke, and one went to some non-prominent player. Leo's instrument landed in an auction by Heritage in Dallas earlier this year, and I ended up buying it. I found out later that I was lucky, because another guy would have paid more for it that I wanted to, but his computer froze during the live auction, and so my bid ended up winning it.
Here is Boo:
And here is the "owl:"
musette_sf
(10,200 posts)I knew Kottke played a Bozo, so quite a thrill to hear that you now own it.
ornotna
(10,800 posts)I guess I need to look for his other videos to hear Lockdown Lucille.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Nothing beats a guitar hand-made by a great luthier, IMO.
I had an early-80's Gurian that was the most beautiful-sounding guitar I ever heard in person. Even before you played a note, you knew it was going to have a very special voice - you could feel the conversation in the room coming alive through the rosewood.
I loved that thing. Broke 13 of my L radius off, and the healing was never complete. Damaged ulnar nerve made me sell it, because I couldn't play it. Still took me over 20 years after the accident to get to that point. A member of a "Gurian trio" bought it, which is great.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)It takes too long to build one so I doubt he sells them. He probably gifts special friends.
Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)You won't see many guitar wood shelves. It might have been used as a shelf until he got around to using it. Seems kind of silly to me to hand carve an archtop body for a semi hollow body guitar but to each his own.
Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,733 posts)to hold all those books that are lying around on the floor.
tavernier
(12,383 posts)in his garage with help from his dad, and its the one he still uses.