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Old 11-02-2018, 09:48 AM
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The top:



The top for this guitar came from a train tunnel in Oregon that was built in the 1850s. It is old growth Redwood cut over 150 years ago. That would be the top left tunnel you see here on this old hand colored lithograph:



The tunnels were reinforced with concrete and when the old beams were removed they threw them off down into the ravine. My source is a local guitar builder/fireman who has been hiking down into the ravine, examining the beams and cutting off the prime pieces he is able to pack out.





So if I were to say this is a prewar top I'd be talking about the Civil War.
These tops have been fabulous. They ring like a bell, well, like several bells because of all the different tones you can get tapping them.


Here is the top I selected for this build:



And we're off!

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