The boys have got the sides cut and were running them through the sander as shown below...the report from the Olfactory department at the Kinnaird shop is this wood smells sweet! Steve said even more so than BRW! I love me a good smellin guitar! Not sure how much we can trust a couple of good ole' Texas boys in the smellin department, but hey, it's all we've got to go by...Now if they said it smelled like a good barbecue, then we would know we could trust em!
Again I am struck by the amount of color in this wood already. You know how a lot of times the wood looks OK, you can see the grain etc. and know that wet it is going to come alive and really change, this stuff just looks rich already. Either the finish is not going to do too much, ie. not be that dramatic of change or as Cigarfan said, it is going to have a lot of depth under finish. I guess time will tell....at least until then the shop smells good!
