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[Sugarlander]

Originally Posted by PTC Bernie

I don't care for the sapwood on the back, but everything else looks very nice.

I like the wood binding and the trianglular end piece.

Very nice colors! Great job!

Thanks for the honesty. That's what I'm looking for.

I knew that some do not like sapwood and I respect that. It also seems that those that do like it, really do. In other words, the likers push the graph up higher while the dislikers pull the bottom down yielding a broader range of strong impacts.

Thanks for the compliment about the colors. I designed it to be different with the dark rust red binding and wider than typical white maple perfling below it. I was going for striking while still being somewhat conservative.

[Sugarlander]

Originally Posted by EoE

lovely but for the question for me is...is it finger candy

Before I started building I was just a player that had a lot of guitars. I found that I was not satisfied with the work others were doing to set up my guitars. So I bought the tools and read a lot from many people and used my engineering sense to do it myself. I set up about 50 guitars before I started repairing and later building. Musicians now bring me their guitars for set ups and say "they play like butter".

Being a player first lays the foundation for my philosophy for building too. For instance, shellacking the inside is positive for the player while negative (harder but doable) for the repair Luthier years later.

[Sugarlander]

Originally Posted by paulzoom

A beauty. What price range would you be selling it for?

I would build you this same guitar for $3,500 plus shipping and PayPal, if any. I still have wood from the same billets.

[AmericanEagle]

I want one!
Please!!

[llew]

Beautiful work Ed! Where does the line start?

[The Growler]

Really beautiful. I like the contrast binding, etc. if it sounds as good as it looks, you've got winner right there. Nice work!

[soao]

Can we hear it?

[Sugarlander]

Originally Posted by soao

Can we hear it?

I would have to contact the owner in Hungry to see if he has the ability to record it.

[the architect]

I'd love to have the opportunity to run my fingers across that fretboard!!

Beautifully done!!!

[Random1643]

That's so pretty! Thanks for sharing.

[djg]

I think it looks terrific.

Would I want one? I think I'd have to play one, or a few, or at least hear a few, to have any sense of that. I don't doubt that you've built a good guitar, and not just a pretty one, but there's enough difference in what different builders are shooting for that, even assuming that you hit your mark, I'd want some sense of what that mark is.

[DesertTwang]

Most beautiful back I've seen in a guitar. I would want to hear it, of course, but I think I would want one. Minus the soundport, though.

[OneMansGuitar]

WOW. That honey would get a lot of comments ANYWHERE.

Well done. Love the sound port. Love the look of that back with the book matched design, like an art deco piece one might see hanging at the top of a hotel's grand stairway or something.

[Transylvania]

What a beauty--love the sound port. Great looking woods.

[cv50]