Chris McDowell CMR Woodworks & Guitars
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I really appreciate your viewpoint on this and after thinking about it for a few days, I decided to just leave it. The guitar is going to a close friend who doesn‘t even play guitar. He said he simply wanted to be able to say he bought the first guitar I ever sold. It will basically just hang on the wall at his house, which made it easier for me to decide to just leave it
He tried to buy my first and second guitars and I told him I couldn‘t sell them because I was still learning and that they had battle wounds from all the lessons I learned while making them. None of them are really noticeable unless you have some knowledge of guitar building, but I know they are there.
I finally agreed to let him buy my third so I was really doing my best to not make the same mistakes as I did on my first two, most of which I can intimately remember, so I was doing really well until an issue with the finish and then this dent (and a few other brand new mistakes, of course 😅).
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Thank you! I appreciate the feedback, both of you!
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I stacked 7 layers of veneer together to make a backstrap on my previous build because the headstock got too thin when I got a little happy sanding down the back of it to make the volute, lol. It worked out and I have had zero issues. With all of them epoxied together, it looks like one single thick piece of wood.
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I told the guy what happened and that I would repair it. He said he didn‘t care and not to even worry about it. I appreciate the follow up!
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Wow, thanks so much for the advice, I really appreciate it! I will take a stab at it. Well, I pretty much have to since I’m the idiot that caused the dent 😅
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Are you talking about the Taylor logo? If so, it appears it might be inlay. It doesn’t feel raised up around it at all and I don’t see any edges like around a slide decal or something like that.
