{"id":1005,"date":"2010-07-10T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2010-07-10T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T18:27:19","slug":"take-the-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2010\/07\/10\/take-the-fifth\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the Fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisletchford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Letchford <\/a>has purchased #5 (which has been in the works for some time) and taken the opportunity to have it built to his specifications. He insisted on having a wenge top, although\u00a0I had run out building #3.\u00a0I was lucky to find some just a few kilometers away thanks to a tip from SwedishLuthier over at Project Guitar Forum. It has been in store for over 20 years, making it about as old as my previous batch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1006\" title=\"img_2901\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_2901.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When this is bookmatched, it should give a result very similar to #3. I bought enough for at least 4 instruments. I also got some incredibly light Sapele Mahogany: I have never used this before, but am very excited. It is very resonant and this particular piece felt like Swamp Ash in weight but with a very even color close to maple.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1007\" title=\"img_2902\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_2902.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also cut up the neck blank for #5 and #6 today. This has been the subject of a <a href=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2010\/02\/20\/neck-through-carbon-fiber-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous post<\/a>. The original intention was to make #6 an 8-string, but I might make both of these 7-strings in order to leverage working on several instruments at a time.<\/p>\n<p>#5 (Chris Letchford) specs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 strings headless EGS design<\/li>\n<li>Mahogany back with maple neck-through-body center<\/li>\n<li>Wenge top<\/li>\n<li>Semi-hollow construction<\/li>\n<li>Belly carve + arm bevel<\/li>\n<li>2 x <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lundgren.se\/index.asp?folid=22&amp;micid=88\" target=\"_blank\">Lundgren M7 pickups<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2 position mini-toggle switch (neck\/bridge)<\/li>\n<li>Master volume, master tone<\/li>\n<li>EGS fixed bridge, custom color blue<\/li>\n<li>String spacing at bridge 10,5 mm and nut 7 mm<\/li>\n<li>Rosewood fretboard<\/li>\n<li>Stainless steel Medium\/High frets<\/li>\n<li>24 frets<\/li>\n<li>Double-acting truss rod<\/li>\n<li>Zero fret<\/li>\n<li>25.75&#8243; &#8211; 25&#8243; scale, with neutral fret at approximately fret 9 (12 mm difference between outermost bridges)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>#6 specs are still not decided. The original idea was to use a piece of zebrano I had laying around, but I may use the Sapele now that I have it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Letchford has purchased #5 (which has been in the works for some time) and taken the opportunity to have it built to his specifications. He insisted on having a wenge top, although\u00a0I had run out building #3.\u00a0I was lucky to find some just a few kilometers away thanks to a tip from SwedishLuthier over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}