[j. Kinnaird]

Originally Posted by invguy921

Love love love that Lapis!! Beautiful work John!!

Thanks Mike. I love such comments

Originally Posted by Nemoman

I know that working with stone has to be very challenging--different densities, hardnesses, rates of expansion and contraction, compensating for sanding levels, and on and on.

I talked Mike Baranik into using malachite on a custom build for me. His parting comment when I picked up the guitar from him was:

You'd better take really good care of this guitar 'cause I'm never doing that again!"

Nicely done, John!

Thanks Nemoman.
I completely understand Mike's sentiments.