My new (old) Contemporary CO-1C project guitar

[FNG]

Nice job!!!!!

 

[learnintoplay62]

See, that's what I'm talking about. Now everyone can appreciate your talents. The old saying pictures say a thousand words. I love the new look. Makes me wonder why they stained the woods in the first place ?
Cross thread alert.
Carl are you still using film ? If so I gots plenty in the freezer 8)

 

[Dr. Spivey]

Great work, Carl. I'll bet the two of you sound great together.

 

[Graham]

Great work, Carl. I'll bet the two of you sound great together.

I can vouch for that!

Carl brought that up here to the Great White North a few weeks ago, before it was finished, and he makes it, or any guitar rather, sound very, very good indeed!!

I like this one because of the cedar top, I wish Guild would reintroduce it, maybe on a nice mini jumbo 12? :roll:

 

[guildzilla]

Nice work, Carl. Enjoy the guitar.

 

[FNG]

It looked a bazillion times better than the original finish.

 

[cjd-player]

Makes me wonder why they stained the woods in the first place ?

I'm sure it's for cosmetic consistency. It also lets them use wood that doesn't look as nice, and is therefore cheaper. For example, the rosewood headstock veneer on this has a dark patch in the upper left in the photo. Not a defect, just a coloration difference. The mahogany neck has a couple of dark streaks; you can see one down along the heel in the picture of the back. And one of the mahogany sides has a bit of wild grain from near a knot in the wood.
I'm sure that some folks would think that these are structural defects in the wood not want the guitar. By staining, they can hide all of these features in the wood, and all of the guitars look essentially the same.

Personally, I like wood to look like wood. I rarely stain when I build something.

 

[killdeer43]

Personally, I like wood to look like wood. I rarely stain when I build something.

I'm with you there, Carl.
Of all the woodworking projects and cabinets I've built, the stain/finish part is my least favorite thing to do. Everything else is enjoyable but I like to turn the stain/finish over to someone else....someone who enjoys losing brain cells with every breath! :roll:

Once again, great work on the "project guitar,"
Joe

 

[cuthbert]

Nice job, the mahogany with the new finish looks much better than with the original reddish colour....