In year 2000 Eric Schoenberg and I were just 4 years into my involvement in his ongoing "Schoenberg Guitar" project. He long ago became my best customer ever, and we have now completed over 70 guitars, each one built as a custom guitar with ever evolving specifications seeking his ideal as best we can conceive it. This is a far more intimate sort of relationship than any of my other dealers have developed, but not unlike those, since 2008 there has been a bit less business.
Getting back to 2000, that's when he and I went in together on a a few wood buys. We still have some of that wood unused, and the guitar I am starting today will feature an "E grade" Rivolta Italian Spruce top he and I acquired at that time! When I put up wood I usually pencil some marks on it to remind me of where I got it and how I thought at the time it should be joined. In this case I needed to remind me that it was not entirely mine:
