Jmat's "Tree" to be delivered at ARTISAN

Bruce Sexauer · #1 04-07-2019, 03:48 PM

Please don''t make his life miserable, but if you can get him to let you play it you will have a seriously memorable experience. This guitar is as alive as a guitar can be, and has a rich dark growl under its shimmering trebles that is utterly addictive.

I could say something similar about the other tree guitar I have, but I think the new one is even more powerful. It should be as the other is a 00 to this ones 000, but they have not yet been in the same room. They will be though, as the 00 is on its way from B.I.G. to Harrisburg as I write.

There is more about these guitars in my nearby BlogThread: Sexauer '19.

iim7V7IM7 · #2 04-07-2019, 03:55 PM

Exquisite Bruce (kudos)...

jmat · #3 04-07-2019, 05:47 PM

Wow! All are welcome to give it a go!

TomB'sox · #4 04-07-2019, 05:51 PM

Beautiful guitar by any standard.

Allen Shadd · #5 04-07-2019, 09:05 PM

Very nice.

cigarfan · #6 04-08-2019, 03:48 AM

Wow! Hope I get to try it! Congrats jmat. Awesome work Bruce.

Bruce Sexauer · #7 04-11-2019, 08:14 AM

Hitting the road this morning. Traveling light with just a guitar and a computer bag. Hope to meet some more AGFers at the Artisan Guitar Show.

Rodger Knox · #8 04-11-2019, 12:06 PM

I got my ticket for Saturday, I'm looking forward to meeting everyone. And I'd like to hear someone else play those guitars, I don't play that well anymore.

BBWW · #9 04-11-2019, 04:35 PM

Wish I was there!

Bruce Sexauer · #10 04-19-2019, 04:53 PM

I hope someone besides Jmat got a chance to play this sucker, because it WAS that good and I'd love to have had witnesses. IMO, of course.

cigarfan · #11 04-20-2019, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Sexauer

I hope someone besides Jmat got a chance to play this sucker, because it WAS that good and I'd love to have had witnesses. IMO, of course.

I had the privilege. An extremely good guitar for accompaniment with a huge voice. Balanced with very nice bass response and fat trebles. Hard to put down. I seriously hope to get another chance to play it!

iim7V7IM7 · #12 04-20-2019, 06:50 AM

I had the privilege to audition it at the show...

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It was a fine example of the “magic” that comes off Bruce’s bench. It is wonderfully responsive and has a warm balanced timbre with strong present trebles. It also had a meaty custom neck profile made to jmat’s preferences that I also really liked. Congrats Jmat...

Richard Mott · #13 04-20-2019, 08:31 AM

I had a chance to play Bruce’s other “Tree” guitar, a 00 which was as good a guitar as I’ve heard. So even and alive. It appeared to violate the laws of physics.

printer2 · #14 04-20-2019, 08:46 AM

That is really pretty. The photography does serve it justice.

jmat · #15 04-20-2019, 10:43 AM

Hi all - to close the loop, I wanted to weigh in and say I am really enjoying this guitar. It has a very musical sound that differs from both rosewood and also the Mahogany /Adi examples I have played. The sound has more complexity than I expected but still has some the the mahogany elements. I love the pernambuco and Brazilian guitars Bruce made for me and use them for solo type tunes, which is mostly what I play. Those guitars prefer that you to play the right notes in the right way and if you hang with them on that then they bring it; they sort of say: “hey john let’s be amazing”. The tree guitar seems to say: “hey John, music is a joy, let’s play some tunes”. And so we do.

Also it is an ergonomic masterpiece.