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Title: Any other musicians here?
Post by: Corvette on February 25, 2010, 02:49:54 AM

I just put my guitar down after a few hours of recording and got to wondering if there might be any other musicians on the forum.
If so, what do you play?
Me, I'm a certifiable music gear nut.

  

Title: Re: Any other musicians here?
Post by: Craigt on February 25, 2010, 07:28:36 AM

Trombone.  Not professional, just for fun.  My church has a brass ensemble that I play in and my employer is trying to start a big band.

Craig T.

Title: Re: Any other musicians here?
Post by: K-Man on February 25, 2010, 09:59:16 AM

I play a little guitar.  I spend more time now making custom acoustic guitars.  Here's the first:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/Leathercrafter/1stGuitar.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/Leathercrafter/003.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/Leathercrafter/004.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/Leathercrafter/005.jpg)

It's a dreadnought size.  The back, sides, and neck are mahogany.  The soundboard is sitka spruce.  The fretboard is rosewood. The rosette is koa.  The headstock is covered with lacewood; the pickguard is lacewood.  Though a bit hard to see, the spots on the fretboard are also lacewood.  The bindings are curly maple.  The maker's mark is genuine ivory, scrimmed with my initials.  There's a piece of genuine ivory on the heel of the neck.  The guitar was essentially made from scratch.  The neck was preshaped, but I did the final shaping and finishing.  The bridge was already made.  A local scrimshaw artist did the scrim work.  I made everything else.

I've also made some playing picks.  These two are samples.  The one on the right is lacewood, the one on the left is genuine ivory.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v107/Leathercrafter/GuitarPicks1.jpg)

I'm in the process of making another guitar as we speak.  It's smaller in comparison to the one above.  The back and sides are black walnut; the top is redwood.  The neck is mahogany.  The fretboard, bridge, and rosette are cocobolo.  The spots on the fretboard will be genuine ivory.  

Title: Re: Any other musicians here?
Post by: kjtrains on February 25, 2010, 10:55:00 AM

Trombone, here.  Very limited basis, now.  Had our own band in the school days; played for the High School Proms and such.  

K-Man.  Excellent work.  Do you sell what you make?  Just wondering.

Title: Re: Any other musicians here?
Post by: Recluse on February 25, 2010, 11:36:22 AM

I know just enough on the guitar to amaze myself.

Just a Fender "Mexi-Strat" that a friend picked up at a pawn shop, and my only amp is a battery-powered box with headphones.

Non-musicians may be fooled for a minute or two, but you guys would run away screeming, with your fingers plugging your ears!

Title: Re: Any other musicians here?
Post by: P7Enigma on February 25, 2010, 04:48:24 PM

Dabbled in sax in the past but I know a good sax player named Bill

Still have the horn but I don't even know where it's at...! Its a Selmer Mk6 tenor

Title: Re: Any other musicians here?
Post by: K-Man on February 25, 2010, 09:23:37 PM

Quote

K-Man.  Excellent work.  Do you sell what you make?  Just wondering.

Thanks.  Our goal is to offer up for sale what we make.  The first is a keeper though.  ;D

Title: Re: Any other musicians here?
Post by: kjtrains on February 25, 2010, 09:50:04 PM

Certainly would keep the first one, for sure!

Title: Re: Any other musicians here?
Post by: yankee2500 on March 04, 2010, 08:55:41 PM

Fine looking guitar, I always appreciate fine craftsmanship especially in wood.

John

Title: Re: Any other musicians here?
Post by: kjtrains on March 05, 2010, 10:09:50 AM

I've always liked the guitar, have one, and never took the time to learn to play.  That's on the agenda, though, to do that very thing.