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Comment by Paul 'PapaHogg' Smith on January 18, 2012 at 10:19pm

Love it John. One day maybe I'll play this too.

Comment by JP Swenson on June 30, 2011 at 11:01am

Beautiful git and nice strummin' too!

Comment by dogfinger steve on June 30, 2011 at 10:05am

excellent john, nice one:0)

Comment by HOLLOWBELLY on June 29, 2011 at 5:57am

gr8 stuff.

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on June 29, 2011 at 12:57am

nice guitar John! getting the right flavour is the best recipe (-:

Comment by Chris Tinker on June 28, 2011 at 9:52pm

Quite right... I had a fantastic moment yesterday as I was chiseling away at the top layer of a diddley bow headstock for the youth club and the bottom sheared away instead! I still managed to pull off a working diddley bow.

Comment by ChickenboneJohn on June 28, 2011 at 9:35pm

Making mistakes and dealing with it creatively is all part of the process.  It turned out better looking, stronger  and gave me a nice slot to seat the nut into.  This sort of thing is a consequence of making things by eye and by hand rather than to a drawing or exact dimensions. I'm sure in the long run it would probably be quicker and easier to work to precise measurements and do things the same way each time...but on pretty much every build, I end up making some sort of correction, alteration or adjustment to get things to fit or to work better. I still make mistakes, I've just got better at dealing with them.

Comment by Chris Tinker on June 28, 2011 at 9:28pm

Nice to hear that a pro occasionally cuts his headstocks too thin too. :)

Comment by Uncle John on June 28, 2011 at 2:17pm

That is wonderful that you can do that on 3 strings. 

 

Getting the flavor and feel of it rather than copying.   Well said,  Thanks!  I don't know that I can play this song, but I am at least off to a start. 

Comment by bemuzic on June 28, 2011 at 11:19am

yeah nicely done and great looking instrument!!

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