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Name: Phill
Country: United States
State: Minnesota
Metro: St. Paul
Birthday: 4/19/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: Jess, Guitar, Longboarding, Crocheting, Music, and most of all Jesus
Expertise: Acoustic Guitar, Crocheting, Throwing Pots, Longboarding
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art
Message: message me
AIM:  relientskater
Member Since:
12/20/2005
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Creamy Tan - cone 10
58 Hawthorne
38 ball clay
4 GoldArt
10% 30/80 mesh grog
Goshen College Stoneware - cone 10
13 lbs. Custer Feldspar
6 lbs. Flint (200 mesh silica)
18 lbs. OM 4 Ball Clay
--Mix these ingredients into a mush first, then add the following:
21 lbs. 6-Tile Kaolin
14 lbs. GoldArt
10 lbs. Hawthorne Fireclay
5 lbs. Grog
Flameware - cone 10
30% spodumene
10% G-200 feldspar
10% Pyrax (HS)
25% Ball Clay OM 4
25% Hawthorne Fireclay
=100%
5% Grog
1.75% Red Iron Oxide
Whiteware - cone 10
6% G-200 Feldspar
30% 6-Tile Kaolin
40% Cedar Heights Goldart
20% EPK
4% Flint
Whiteware 2 - cone 10
35% Ball clay
35% EPK
35% 600 Kaolin
20% Custer Feldspar
10% Pyrophyl
Good Stoneware - cone 10
50lbs Roseville Stoneware Clay
3 Hawthorne Bonding Clay
5 Sagger Ball Clay
1 G200 Feldspar
2 Wollastonite
2 100 mesh Mullite
3 50 mesh Grog (Christy Minerals)
1 Bentonite
150grams Spanish Red Iron Oxide
No-waste Stoneware - cone 10
100 Lincoln fireclay
100 missouri fireclay
50 ball clay
12 flint
12 potash feldspar
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| Hello Family!
I think I will be starting a new project at the end of the summer...or during...or...next school year? Anyway, because I play the guitar and I love it, I was thinking why don't I just make one?
My new project will hopefully be an acoustic guitar. I will start with a kit, like these: http://tinyurl.com/y7v44y
I would just get the cheapest one (mahogany) and try it out. Ooo im so excited, even though all i have been doing is researching a reading books like these:
 
The first book is really detailed instructions on how to make one with quite a few pictures in black and white. The second is visual oriented and has tons of pictures with decent instructions. There are also detailed movies, which i might learn more from, but they cost a pretty penny.
I was checking out local luthiers (stringed instrument makers) and found one in minneapolis named Hoffman who makes Hoffman guitars. Another, who makes Olson Guitars, lives about 15 minutes north of Bethel. Cool, huh? Both are world-renowned guitar makers, too.
Tools are expensive... however I think i may be able to manage with a good summer job. Hmm...I maybe wont be able to afford everything until summer is over, but oh well. The good thing about buying a Kit is that the extremely expensive tools used to bend the wooden sides are cut out -- they come pre-bent. The only expensive tools I would need are a router, possibly a Dremel tool, some nice chisels, one plane (maybe two), and a drill press. ... i might be forgetting a few...
I hope this becomes a hobby of mine! I think it would be really fun! Call me crazy, but despite my lack of knowledge on woodworking, I believe that I will be able to make a decent guitar. Probably not my first one, maybe not my second one, but maybe my third...or fourth...or fifth...et cetera. I also have help from an online forum of luthiers. They said they would definitely be able to help, which I think is pretty cool.
There it is! I really hope I will be able to build one! or two..or three...
~Phill
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| Heh, I took an online test to find out what my I.Q. was, and I got a score of 129. I guess it means that I am above average. Cool . Try it, but I must warn you, the test is 12 pages long. Oh well, the result was fun.
Here is the link.
http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/index_main.jsp
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| Look everybody! i made a video! http://media.putfile.com/Longboarding-Fall
check it out!
ps. the lyrics of the song when the guy falls are, "even the best fall down sometimes." i thought it was kinda funny. anyway, i made the video because i wanted to learn how to edit movies with windows movie maker.
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