Hi All,
I'm excited to share a guitar build by the talented luthier Andy Mueller of Muleskinner Instruments! I've always enjoyed the builds posted on this forum and looked forward to the day I might have one to share, too.
I discovered Muleskinner from a post on the mandolin cafe and contacted Andy to see if he was interested in building a 15" Dreadnought. I love my J45 but I wanted something smaller/more comfortable (I'm 5'7") and am not a fan of the photo's of me playing it. It looks like I'm "playing my dad's guitar". While Andy primarily builds mandolins at Muleskinner he will occasionally build guitars, too. It turned out that he had already been interested in building a smaller dreadnought and my inquiry was perfect timing.
Today I received the good news that he was starting on my guitar this afternoon!
Here are the specs:
Small dreadnought body shape, 15" lower bout width.
Cuban Mahogany back and sides
Adirondack Spruce top
Ebony bridge and fingerboard
Ebony peghead overlay (on bound solid headstock)
MOP headstock logo and small fingerboard dots (at 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th, and 15th frets)
25" scale length
1 3/4" nut, 2 1/4" spacing at bridge
BWB purflings with maple in place of white fiber
Wood inlay rosette
Curly maple bindings and heelcap
Sunburst top
Nickel Waverly tuning machines
K&K pure mini pickup
Pic of the Cuban Mohogany:
20201023_163030 by
Sean Rosenthal, on Flickr