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Old 03-22-2008, 12:02 PM
Dick Sanders Dick Sanders is offline
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Thanks, Danny, for your advice and help on the setup and your recommendation of Richard Starkey. And thanks, too, for making the video. It's just great to see and hear you play my guitar (it'll never be played so well again!). If you haven't heard Danny yet, see the YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYmb8LBWnag

To add to Danny's post, I had asked Jim to put the emphasis on the fundamental and also to get as much bass as he could out of this small body. The goal was not to build a vintage replica, but rather to get a comfortable, easy-playing, great-sounding guitar with all my favorite vintage features (from the '30s). And thus this is an original design, but with a heavy debt to Gibson, National, and Silvertone, and of course a great BIG "thank you" to Jim Worland. I can vouch that he's a good guy, very nice to work with, and his prices are very affordable. http://worlandguitars.com/

Specs: Honduran Rosewood and Italian Spruce; 14 7/8 lower bout; 10 5/16 upper bout; 8 3/16 waist; 19 1/8 body length; 4 3/8 body depth; 1 3/4 nut width; 2 3/16 string width; 25.4 scale, slim soft-v neck made for my hand.

Finally, here are two more pics, one of the headstock and one showing the kerfing Danny was talking about...



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