My Personal Kronbauer Guitar Progress Thread

sirflyguy2000 · #1 01-28-2006, 08:21 PM

I just thought I would start this thread to keep track of the progress of my Kronbauer that I have on order. I got an email from Trevor today asking which type of Florentine cutaway I wanted: the wide style (his newer design) or the more traditional style. I think I want the more traditional one, but he is going to send me full frontal pics of both styles so I can see them better.

Just to list my specs here in this first post:

TDK Mini-Jumbo body
Cedar Top
IR sides and back
Spalted maple rosette, end graft, and headstock logo
5-piece neck
Ebony fingerboard, bridge, and headstock overlay
No fretboard markers except maybe the 12th fret - side markers only
Flamed koa binding
K&K Western mini pickup (probably will be upgraded to a dual source system)
Florentine cutaway (probably the traditional style)

More info as the build progresses. I am so excited!

DVGuy · #2 01-28-2006, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by sirflyguy2000

I just thought I would start this thread to keep track of the progress of my Kronbauer that I have on order. I got an email from Trevor today asking which type of Florentine cutaway I wanted: the wide style (his newer design) or the more traditional style. I think I want the more traditional one, but he is going to send me full frontal pics of both styles so I can see them better.

Just to list my specs here in this first post:
Cedar Top
IR sides and back
Spalted maple rosette and end graft (and possibly the headstock logo)
5-piece neck
Ebony fingerboard, bridge, and headstock overlay
No fretboard markers except maybe the 12th fret - side markers only
Flamed koa binding
K&K Western mini pickup (probably will be upgraded to a dual source system)
Florentine cutaway (probably the traditional style)

More info as the build progresses. I am so excited!

I share your excitement. Keep us posted.

sirflyguy2000 · #3 01-28-2006, 10:48 PM

Just wanted to bump myself to the 400 post level!

brieber · #4 01-28-2006, 11:30 PM

That's going to be one excellent guitar! Can't wait to hear more.

Is that Macassar Ebony you're using on the headstock?

sirflyguy2000 · #5 01-29-2006, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by brieber

That's going to be one excellent guitar! Can't wait to hear more.

Is that Macassar Ebony you're using on the headstock?

I have no idea.

pangpang77 · #6 01-29-2006, 08:13 AM

Here are some pics of Aaron Markson's wide cutaway Mini-Jumbo:

http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/f...ight=kronbauer

And here are the pics of the traditional cutaway:

http://homepage.mac.com/nauger/Acous...toAlbum37.html
http://homepage.mac.com/nauger/Acous...toAlbum28.html

Hope this will help. I personally prefer the traditional, thinking maybe it'd have a bit more volume/projection?

Dan

sirflyguy2000 · #7 01-29-2006, 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pangpang77

Hope this will help. I personally prefer the traditional, thinking maybe it'd have a bit more volume/projection?

Dan

I still think I like the traditiional better, although I liked the wide better than I thought once I got to see a front-on picture. I agree with the volume/projection insight.
Thanks for the picture links. Makes me even more excited about my guitar!

Jarvis · #8 01-29-2006, 09:00 AM

I personally prefer the look of the traditional cutaway better

ljguitar · #9 01-29-2006, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirflyguy2000

I still think I like the traditiional better, although I liked the wide better than I thought once I got to see a front-on picture. I agree with the volume/projection insight.
Thanks for the picture links. Makes me even more excited about my guitar!

Hi guys...

I think I'd like the traditional on the small body and mini-jumbo, and the wide on a Dreadnaught. Cutaways often look strange on Dreadnaught guitars.

sirflyguy2000 · #10 01-29-2006, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ljguitar

Hi guys...

I think I'd like the traditional on the small body and mini-jumbo, and the wide on a Dreadnaught. Cutaways often look strange on Dreadnaught guitars.

I totally agree. On a dread it seems to throw the balance off or something. Having said that, I played a friend's Olson dread with a cutaway a few months back, and it sounded so good! Still thought the cutaway didn't look as good as on the SJ I had borrowed at the time.
The wide cutaway on the smaller bodies seems to come very close to the soundhole. I guess whatever floats one's boat, though; it's all good!

sirflyguy2000 · #11 01-30-2006, 09:48 PM

I have added purfling to my bound neck as of Sunday. It just looks so good! A bound neck is standard, from what I understood Trevor to say. I also decided to have a spalted maple logo on the headstock. I also settled on the traditional Florentine cutaway.
So, here is my updated spec list:

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirflyguy2000

Cedar Top
IR sides and back
Spalted maple headstock logo, rosette, and end graft
5-piece neck
Ebony fingerboard, bridge, and headstock overlay
No fretboard markers except maybe the 12th fret - side markers only
Flamed koa binding on body and neck
Purfling added to neck binding
K&K Western mini pickup (probably will be upgraded to a dual source system)
Florentine cutaway (traditional style)

I still have to decide on the fretboard marker issue.
More as it progresses.

JedimasterPaul · #12 01-30-2006, 10:20 PM

Cool deal! I look forward to seeing the pics of your guitar in progress.

Hopefully I'll be able to share photos of the one I'm getting made as well. Although this time around I'm opting for what you would call a 'traditional' guitar, I have been watching these Kronbauer threads with great interest and my next handmade (I'm that far gone...) will probably be something more modern in design.

yukonkornelius · #13 02-01-2006, 01:03 AM

sweet!!! I'm counting the days myself!!!!

sirflyguy2000 · #14 02-01-2006, 06:06 PM

I am toying with some 12th-fret inlay ideas. Our new CD is called New Creation (which has creative and spiritual meaning, plus it is a song I wrote for the new CD). Since this guitar is a new creation as well, I thought it might be cool to put that at the 12th fret. He is looking into it for me to determine cost and feasability. That is a lot of letters to fit in!
I just had a brainstorm. I wonder how it would look if we did this:
__|N|____
|CREATION|
...|W|
...and then did a cross around it (I tried to do that with underling in the above illustration)? Ooh, I think it would be great! Man, I just designed a fret marker! The cross would be pointing the right way to someone looking at the guitar as I played it, too. (Sorry, HTML crosses made out of letters are hard to do!). One question: Should the letters be where they are readable as I am holding the guitar and someone is looking at it (as it appears above), or as it is on a stand and you are looking at it (rotate the letters 90 degreescounterclockwise, plus switch the "N" and the "W" around")?

brieber · #15 02-01-2006, 06:15 PM

sirflyguy, no worries on the attempted hijacking.

That's a cool idea. I would be concerned about the very small lettering you'll need to fit it at the 12th fret. Trevor had to use some pretty thick pieces of MoP to make those stems on mine so that they wouldn't crack as he cut them, and I think they're probably wider than you're letters would need to be. Maybe not, though, as I said in my last post on the other thread - I am NOT an authority on inlay.

Hey, here's something to think about --- Trevor's got some Olivewood that he was willing to use on mine to inlay a cross in my neckblock. Pretty cool. And it might look really nice, too. Take a look at mine. I'm not suggesting you do the same thing, but the Olivewood would sure be a nice symbolic touch with what you're wanting to do with your inlay.