James A OBrien's Discussions (4)

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My fifth build

The most confident build I've done. I went real slow and careful; considered all my previous mistakes and avoided them. I went fretless because it's the most enjoyable to play for me. It feels like skinny dipping to me. Three strings tuned to Open lo

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C B Gitty's string ferrules...

Can someone advise to the best way to install these securely? I saw a video where someone used a soldering iron to burn them into the wood. I tried that, the tension off the strings just popped them right back out. Now as a last ditch effort I'm usin

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2nd guitar

Well, my second finished, I made several mistakes on a few guitars this month. This guitar is a Frankenstein of the parts/ideas from my failures. I was compromising a lot. I wanted to keep the neck I had made, but since it was so short I needed a box

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Ashton box fumble

I started building a guitar from an Ashton box and ran into some problems tuning. When I started to tune the guitar the box began to crack , therefore never getting the proper tune. I admit, I was using a lot of spare parts to create this build. For

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