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Old 09-17-2018, 08:59 AM
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Default Do you remember Tony Zemaitis

Tony was a luthier who lived and worked in London. He made a guitar for George Harrison which looked a lot like the picture below.



I had a customer who wanted a reasonable copy of this guitar. So, I made him a redwood toped OM some time ago with the Zemaitis bridge and rosette. The rosette, which is a stylized lotus was done by Harvey Leach. Same with the Lotus on the head stock.
At any rate the top cracked after he had owned it for about 5 or so years and I decided that a retop was in order but this time in Englemann, which was closer in looks to the original, and probably will get even closer as it ages. I saved the original rosette and bridge and was able to reuse them.

The body is macassar ebony and the binding is Bubinga which I think turns out to look a lot like leather.

hope you like it, thanks for looking










That label was made especially for this guitar by the customer. It has an Indian motif with the Sanskrit symbol for oooommm. (Get it? )
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