Cedar tends to be softer than spruce, so many are not designed to handle the tension of medium strings - check with your builder.
My guitars are all intonated for standard tuning. This does mean that the bass notes tend to fret a little sharp in dropped tunings. I get round this by fine tuning the low D or C depending on the particular song - depending on the key the song is in, some rely more on a perfectly tuned open string, some more on a particular fretted note. Not perfect, but it works quite well.
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Baranik Meridian "Aurora" fan-fret - Celebes ebony / Colorado blue spruce
Tom Sands Model L fan-fret - Macassar ebony / European spruce
Hamblin GC - Macassar ebony / Italian spruce
Kronbauer SMB - Macassar ebony / Engelmann spruce
Baranik JX - Indian rosewood / German spruce
Sheppard GA - African blackwood / Bosnian spruce
Collings OM1
CA Cargo Raw | Ele
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