JCH question

Marco Schouten · From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Just out of curiosity, are the necks and endplates of the JCH guitars cast or milled?
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Chris Lucker · From: Los Angeles, California USA

I have had only cast JCH necks and endplates, however, I have been told that he did machine some late in production.
Here are three cast necks. One is from Lloyd Green's loafer, one needs finishing and the one with the fretboard was used as a model for machining the final dimensions of the unfinished cast neck.
When Jimmy Crawford died, I got the remaining parts inventory and the unfinished guitar that was on his bench when he died. There were only cast necks and endplates. That final guitar was a D10 for Tommy White. Elsie gave permission for Mike Cass to complete the final guitar as an authentic JCH.

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Marco Schouten · From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Very interesting, Chris.

Thank you.
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Wayne Brown · From: Bassano, Alberta, Canada

I'm sorry Chris but you are very wrong. There may have been a guitar in Jimmy's inventory but it was not the last one he was in the middle of building. That one was mine.It was completed with Elsie's permission and was finished under the JCH name for me. Jimmy passed just after he finished Buddy Emmon's JCH and mine was just over 1/2 done and next in line to be finished. Through another gentleman, Tommy Minniear... Buck Reed finished my guitar. That was the last guitar Jimmy touched. It was a black D-10 here is the picture on the day it arrived. I owned the 1st commercially built JCH serial number #1004 and unfortunately the last.
Here is the original article in the archived SGF
https://steelguitarforum.com/Forum5/HTML/009535.html

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Wayne Brown · From: Bassano, Alberta, Canada

I do apologize Marco I did not mean to derail your thread.
...as for cast or milled i have only had cast however i have heard some were milled.
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Chris Lucker · From: Los Angeles, California USA

Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

Not to add confusion to the side-issue that's arisen, but I too had a D10 on order.

I was on tour and staying in touch with Jimmie; the last time we spoke was when I was riding a tour-bus in Utah and he was going to head back to the hospital.

It was January 31st, 2005 when we last spoke; he told me that my body was completed but was characteristically vague when it came to offering a delivery date! Smile

Two days later, I got the news that he'd passed. Elsie was a marvel. Although she'd contacted me to see where to return my deposit, I told her not to be concerned at present. It came immediately.

'My' body (a plain black D10)? Who knows? Maybe he told three or four people that their 'body was done' as a matter of form. Maybe mine is one of the guitars mentioned above.

I still miss JC.

Chris Lucker · From: Los Angeles, California USA

I had bought all the front apron inlay Crawford had. It was quite a bit. Cass had taken it to Bobbe Seymour's to cut to length. Seymour used a TABLE SAW and had taped the bundle of inlay together.
That was the accident where Seymour's hand was mangled. It was just before the accident that i got the cabinet and other parts. So, I guess I got the unfinished purple/maroon JCH in 2008.
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Dean Holman · From: Branson MO

For years Jimmie always had everything cast. I worked with Jimmie around the time that he cut ties with the Crawford/Parks deal, and he went back to building the JCH. There was always the debate about a cast aluminum as opposed to extruded. When the CNC machining came around, Jimmie felt like the CNC machined aluminum, carried enough tone characteristics of a casting, he liked the idea of having a solid CNC machined end plates and necks, that didn’t have pits. That was his major complaint about castings, was being able to get a good polished end plate, without noticeable pits. So, as far as I know, unless he and Buck Reid did anything different after I left, all the newer JCH guitars, were machined from what I can recollect. It’s possible, that Glenn Rieuf and Russ Hick’s white JCH, may have been cast because of some leftover stock, but after that, Jimmie’s intention was to go CNC machined.

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