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Congrats. I am lucky enough to know a few luthies and these milestones whatever they may be are always important and significant to the journey and a feeling of success!
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Quite the milestone! Congrats. I am happy to own #XXX and will say, it is the bomb. Hard to believe they keep getting better.
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Thanks cigarfan!
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Which Guitar?
The first thing to decide is which model. This is a milestone guitar so the choice is my 000/OM Penelope. It is my oldest model and has served as the test bed for most of my new ideas and innovations. Here are just a few things that the Penelope was a first.
Here I am experimenting burying most of the bridge on the inside of my 9th guitar: When I wanted a hybrid nylon guitar model with the new lyre design headstock, it was the Penelope: I chose a new way of building and started replacing power tools with hand tools. I also s l o w e d down and let the guitar set the pace instead of a scheduled time frame. I started my Unlimited Series and the first guitar was naturally a Penelope: As is my way, this is the time for a new step. I am redesigning this Penelope from a 12 fret to a 14 fret guitar. I am keeping the same body profile but most everything else is changing. I'll admit now there will be a few of my favorite design elements from my past working their way back in.
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Congrats on the milestone Mark. It was a pleasure meeting you and trying your guitars at LaConner yesterday.
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Congrats Mark! Semper ad meliora.
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Very cool Mark... congrats
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Looking forward to seeing #100 and the next 100!
Congrats on the milestone, Mark--your work continues to impress!
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Thanks Aspiring. I’m familiar with that overstimulation syndrome.
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Congratulations, Mark! That’s quite an accomplishment!
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Thank you Steve!
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Selecting the Top
After selecting a model the next step is picking the top. My personal favorite top wood is Western Red Cedar. I'm a bit biased because, like many, I play fingerstyle with the flesh of my fingertips. WRC gives you the most response with the least effort. It's the one that you can hear your fingerprint as you pull a finger across the string.
I like WRC because I'm good with it. I get a lot of headroom from WRC. I have a way to brace and voice my cedar tops that makes a myth of not being able to dig in on Western Red Cedar but still hear that fingerprint. The cedar top I selected is from an intrepid wood beachcomber in Vancouver Bay: I like to think of this wood as having a humpback tonerite with years spent adrift and submerged in leviathan song. Then torrefied by the salty sun laying out baking on the rocky island shore. m
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But I think you are correct about WRC and response. I was a dyed in the wool flat picker for 50+ years . But since getting my Josie with the Redwood B&C and WRC top I have actually started using bare thumb and fingers (not actual fingerpicking style) but a combination of rhythm strumming and sometimes single note embellishments . And I still alternate that with flat picking . And I have noticed with the flat pic I can use much less energy to get loads of projection . For example here I am using it "bare fisted" to strictly drive the rhythm section.
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