Adding the Style 30 backstrip!

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That backstrip is rad.

Keep the pictures coming. I was very close to picking that set of wood, now I am wishing I would have :D. It is looking awesome with the backstrip.

Howard's marquetry is beautiful!

Agree completely! Thanks, Howard.

I will definitely keep the pictures coming. John had quite a bit of nice Madagascar rosewood to choose from, and I would have been equally happy with a few other sets.

No doubt.

I'm so drooling and following along faithfully with this one.

Here's a shot of the completed backstrip. Thanks to John for taking the time to take photos!

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Very cool--love that backstrip with the RW. Congrats!

Howard is a talented chap. That backstrip is awesome.

John was SCUBA diving off the coast of Maine in the mid 90s and, by crazy and freakish coincidence, discovered a wrecked ship that had been lost to history for 150 years. It was carrying a load from none other than CF Martin himself back to his European homeland. A load of Red spruce. John hired an excavation team to salvage the red spruce billets and has been drying them carefully ever since. The so called "Shipwreck spruce" is being used for the top of this OM. He also found some abalone during the same dive. And now it's in my rosette.

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Wow! That's a pretty crazy story about the adi. Sounds like it would come out of the movies! I heard about moon spruce before, but never shipwreck spruce. ;) The axe is coming along beautifully. Thanks for continuing to share the pics!

Like everyone else, I just LOVE that pretty strip for the back. This guitar is very simply and yet elegantly appointed. A beauty!

Very cool Juston! I'm sure some of you know I'm an avid diver as well.

I guess you should change the title of this thread to "Sinker Adi Spruce".


That has to be the most incredible looking abalone I've ever seen. Unreal.


On a serious note, I'm quite jealous of your back strip.

You should start looking around for some Shipwreck Brazilian down there!

Beautiful top and rosette...:up:

I suspect the doomed historic ship was commanded by Captain John Griffin and abalone was harvested from the salty deep by John's famed dive buddy Joanne Thompkins. Let's hope that the ship sank and the abalone was harvested under a "full moon"...:)

What a coinkydink. I just stumbled across this guitar at Dream Guitars with shipwreck Brazilian! I never heard about shipwreck wood till yesterday and now I see two guitars with it. :)

http://www.dreamguitars.com/detail/4...pson_000_2015/

I am off SCUBA diving later this week. I will keep my eyes open for "shipwreck" woods instead of the boring critters that I am normally distract me..:)

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Awesome! I'm a SCUBA diver, too. And I keep coral and tropical fish in a big marine aquarium. I'll keep an eye out for shipwreck woods popping up in my tank.

More progress all around. Many thanks again to John for taking the time to take photos. It's fun for all of us!

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More updates.

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And a few more . . . not the sexiest pictures, but sort of nuts and bolts.

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Looking great. I still don't get why they don't just put some bricks on it to glue the braces on.

Some of that fantastic style 34 binding on the completed box. And a look at one of the highest precision miters I think I've ever seen. John tells me he re-sharpens his chisel 4 or 5 times for the miters of a single end graft. I had no idea!

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Holy moly that top purfling (and the whole build that is) is out of this world. Did John already have some or did you source it elsewhere? I'm loving this build! Can't wait to see it come to fruition!

Mark

This looks great, Juston - can't wait to see the finished product.
That back is so straight grained - nuts!

Hi, Mark. Howard Klepper generously supplied the purfling for this build. It's the same as a guitar of Howard's that I bought last year. Check earlier in the thread. I think there's a photo of my Klepper/Schoenberg 000-12.

My favorite kind of back wood. Plain ol' straight grain. :)

Bound for greatness! I think the fossilized unicorn horn was a great choice.

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Absurd...probably my favorite aesthetic circa in recent memory. Think Howard has any purfling left he'd be interested in unloading :)

Beautiful work! Bi love the mite red side joints