Parlor guitar being built

By the Gallagher people in Murfreesboro TN.



I decided to go with a solid headstock on this. I have a D-18S (12 fret slothead that I can use to experience the joy of changing slothead strings whenever I want)

 

Actually, no. As odd as that sounds.

 

i guess that is correct. I’m also putting together an OM - 28 in my shop. It will be interesting to see which one I’ll be playing in a year.

 

The D-18 copy is Rick Faris' take on a '38. He says it will be light. I pretty much only use lt gauge strings these days.

Hope you get the time & fever to build some.

 

I got a G-70 in 1975. A great guitar. They have a distinctive sound.

Dave (the new owner) would gladly build you one. From everything I have seen they are carrying on the tradition. The ones I played last March, some very, very early Murpheesboro production, all Rand Like a Bell.

 

I got my hands on the fingerboard for the P-70 (the model of the guitar Gallagher is building for me) and have begun to inlay what I hope will be a tasty little vine on the fingerboard.





the way I do it, it is tedious.

But fun

 

Usually I do. But I was time constrained on this.

 

To elaborate on that...you need to be a bit artsy to get the vines and leaves to flow smoothly. When I try it, they look like they have been done by a a3 year old. With precut stuff you just trace around it, route it out, and glue it in.

Had I not been in a rush, I probably would have searched the webs for an image of a vine, printed it out at the appropriate size, glued it to pearl, and cut.

But I didn’t have enough pearl laying around .

When I went to my dremel box I found out that that some yo-yo (me) had broken his last small carbide cutter without reordering.

today I have to work offsite. Tomorrow is another day.

 

it fascinates me too

but I don’t have the equipment to record

here is this. Lots of it out there

 

The source of my inlay material

 

I've been that Gallagher Guy since 1975.

They make a fine guitar that "rings like a bell."