Hatcher Italian Olivewood and Italian Alpine Spruce

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by Scallywag

This is an amazing looking guitar

Thanks Scallywag! I removed the time schedule building this guitar and am proud of the result. My plan is to take this approach and apply it to my other models. I'm about a month in on my Grand Auditorium Greta model now.

[Mark Hatcher]

Charlie was over yesterday to do some sound samples. I was very happy with his comments and response which served to confirm my impressions. He remarked this was the most versatile guitar he's played of mine so we tried to capture that with these samples;



On this sample I think this is the first time I've ever recorded one of my guitars actually being strummed with a guitar pick;



Of course I should say these are strait unedited recordings. They were done with 2 Rode nt1 mics through a Juicedlink preamp directly into my Canon camera

[Christopher Cozad]

Watching your build, I ran out of superlative adjectives earlier in the thread, Mark.

Looks great, sounds great, great job! I am sure you are proud of this one.

[bubbaprime]

Wow, for the voice and performance of this guitar!

It articulates exceptionally well with a light fingerstyle touch and holds up to a heavier strum just as well. What a versatile and beautiful guitar you have created. Someone is going to be head-over-heels for this one.

...maybe one day.

Kudos, Mark!

jeff

[Nemoman]

Looks fabulous and sounds fantastic--kudos, Mark!

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by Christopher Cozad

Watching your build, I ran out of superlative adjectives earlier in the thread, Mark.

Looks great, sounds great, great job! I am sure you are proud of this one.

Thanks Christopher, I am very happy with how this came out.

Originally Posted by bubbaprime

Wow, for the voice and performance of this guitar!

It articulates exceptionally well with a light fingerstyle touch and holds up to a heavier strum just as well. What a versatile and beautiful guitar you have created. Someone is going to be head-over-heels for this one.

...maybe one day.

Kudos, Mark!

jeff

Thanks for your comments and for following along on this one Jeff!

Originally Posted by Nemoman

Looks fabulous and sounds fantastic--kudos, Mark!

Thanks Nemoman


Here is a third sound sample to add to the mix;

[IBKuz]

Mark, it sounds as good as it looks, what a wonderful result. Charlie is a great player and really brings something to this thread to draw it to a conclusion. Thanks for bringing us along on this journey.

[BrunoBlack]

What a nice finish. Beautiful all around!

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by IBKuz

Mark, it sounds as good as it looks, what a wonderful result. Charlie is a great player and really brings something to this thread to draw it to a conclusion. Thanks for bringing us along on this journey.

Thanks Ian, Thanks for your comments and following along. Now I just need to sell it! I'll be featuring it for this year's Monadnock Art tour which is coming up Oct 7-9th. We have 50 artist studios that open to the public and get quite a crowd. This is also a wonderful time to visit New Hampshire because it's our peak autumn leaf color season.

Originally Posted by Haasome

What a nice finish. Beautiful all around!

Thanks Paul! Come on over and see it for yourself!

Mark

[Frettingflyer]

Mark,
I hope to make it to the art tour, this is way out of my league but I can certainly appreciate what a wonderful instrument you have created/crafted. I don't have the vocabulary to find the appropriate words, but wow! And congratulations!

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by Frettingflyer

Mark,
I hope to make it to the art tour, this is way out of my league but I can certainly appreciate what a wonderful instrument you have created/crafted. I don't have the vocabulary to find the appropriate words, but wow! And congratulations!

Thanks and if you make it out be sure to tell me who you are! If you can't make it to the tour, you're welcome to come out for a personal tour.