CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) (страница 1)

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Тема: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia)
Время: 25.10.2004 15:21

Москва

I believe this one is getting underway this week :-)

Acoustic DOBRO with arched flame maple back and solid Bubinga top
Solid flame maple sides
Set neck (5 piece flame maple and ebony)
Bubinga headstock facing
Fretboard of Maccassar Ebony
Ivoroid binding around top, back, fretboard and headstock.
Ivoroid knobs, strap buttons &amp; trim,
Lace magnetic pickup
24 3/4" scale length, 12 frets clear of the body.
The body will be "contoured" in a unique way, so that the guitar is much thinner at the top than it is at the bottom

here is a (VERY ROUGH) sketch: (the guitar's final outlines will be much more symmetrical!)

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 25.10.2004 17:13
Jonas Dalmayne	Stop hogging the crafters Mike, or we'll never get our guitars! Nah, just joking . How many guitars have you had Shamray build for you now though? I know of the LP, the Futura and this one, are there any more? I like the specs on this one, acoustics built out of flame maple always look real sweet, I'm asuming you're going with a natural finish? It's cool how you seem to go for the slightly odd projects, it's not like you see a lot of Futuras or Dobros around...
Jonas Dalmayne

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 26.10.2004 02:12
Michael_Walker Москва	Actually i have had three more magnificent flame-maple-neck Shamrays, a 'strat', 'tele', and a 'Jazz Bass'. Plus of course P-00 (aka Bebb-II) and P-01, P-02, and P-03 bass prototypes built to my design (P-04 is currently underway now). You will be able to see all those basses at http://ShamrayBass.com when it opens to the public next month! Incidentally , i had to stand in line for this one A LONG TIME (and i wouldnt even have qualified for Andre's valuable time if i hadnt insisted on paying Shamray 'full retail' just like everybody else). The futura is actually being built by Dudnik 'in his spare time', so its not cutting into his extremely busy schedule - and i dont expect it to be completed any time soon. This Dobro will be either natural finish, or "maybe" dyed a very bright orange (i am on an orange kick right now) under the clear lacquer. Now that you mention it, I am leaning towards an ORANGE-BURST back and sides... i have owned more than 200 "conventional" guitars over the years, (well - a few of those were not so conventional, but the vast majority were Gibsons, Fenders, Rickenbackers, Gretsches, etc) so I try to make *these* guitars really "my own" in some small ways. Just wait till you see my upcoming Creation Series solidbody electric 12-string...
Michael_Walker Москва

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 26.10.2004 02:19
Michael_Walker Москва	oh, and (below) are the first shop pics of my new 'baby' : the rough-cut one piece top of solid bubinga, and the arched maple back (the back is about 50 years old, i got it from an old luthier's shop in Germany)...
Michael_Walker Москва

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Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia)
Время: 11.11.2004 11:20

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Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 04.12.2004 11:41
Michael_Walker Москва	spec update... the last two pics above are a board of ZEBRAWOOD, after Andre sawed and thicknessed it into a pair of GUITAR SIDES I was looking through my private stock the other day and noticed a board of Zebrawood that just "happened" to be exactly the right size to make sides for this guitar (just like the old board of flame maple we used for the neck just "happened" to be exactly the right size for this guitar's neck lams) so i thought "Why not?"...
Michael_Walker Москва

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 04.12.2004 19:15
Aleksandr Shamray	We use steam to make shape of the sides.
Aleksandr Shamray

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 06.12.2004 13:10
ferd	Oh yeah, you guys can work fast, but only, if you need a guitar yourself...
ferd

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 06.12.2004 14:03
Michael_Walker Москва	Andre IS making steady progress.. but i would hardly call 8 months "fast"... (my guitar has been in the build queue since MAY 1st.. i actually dont get any preferential treatment in that regard!)
Michael_Walker Москва

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 10.12.2004 00:53
Michael_Walker Москва	Its not a funny camera angle - the guitar is "ergonomically designed" so that the body is much thinner on top than it is on the bottom (the patented Wedge-O-Matic® Dobro...)
Michael_Walker Москва

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 26.02.2005 03:21
patrick	Stop giving people G.A.S Michael !!! Love the woods on this guitar!
patrick

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 19.05.2005 18:39
Insonicum Москва гитара, клавиши, труба	michael. what a brilliant looking neck. brilliant top and side woods also. i really like the shape too, i hadnt seen one before. kudos.
Insonicum Москва гитара, клавиши, труба

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 03.06.2005 18:10
Insonicum Москва гитара, клавиши, труба	this is awesome. the back has come out so nicely too. when do you take it home?
Insonicum Москва гитара, клавиши, труба

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 03.06.2005 23:42
Michael_Walker Москва	wait till you see the next batch of pics ( and it looks even better in person!) Im hoping i can take it home by the middle of june
Michael_Walker Москва

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 09.06.2005 15:13
Michael_Walker Москва	the 'shape' doesnt have much to do with the sound... But if you are referring to the 'great gaping hole' in the front, it will be filled with a RESONATOR CONE (a mechanical amplifer that is driven directly by the strings)
Michael_Walker Москва

Автор	Тема: Re: CS 0069 - Shamray Custom Shop "DOBRO" for Michael Walker (Moscow, Russia) Время: 09.06.2005 23:58
Michael_Walker Москва	ahh... I specified that only for "ergonomics" (to make the guitar lay more comfortably on my body). I don't think the assymetrical body depth will have very much impact on the sound, as the dobro body is primarly acting as a semi-rigid (top is 10mm thick!) "enclosure" to react with the speaker cone of the resonator. But i guess we will find out.. after its built, i will take it out and compare it with 3 or four "commercial" dobros - for some scientific research!
Michael_Walker Москва

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