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New Brook Custom Build
Although I won't get the final spec sheet until Monday, Here's the back of my forthcoming (Nov?) Brook Lyn guitar. English walnut back and sides, curly maple binding, Sitka top, cutaway, 12 fret. Should be a fingerstyle monster. Cutaway might be dropped depending on final price but I can live without it.
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2022 Brook Lyn Custom, 2014 Martin 000-18, 2022 Ibanez GB10, several homebrew Teles, Evans RE200 amp, Quilter 101R and various speaker cabinets, Very understanding wife of 48 years Last edited by Skip Ellis; 04-16-2021 at 08:08 PM. |
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Some really gorgeous walnut there! Congrats on the build. That's a builder whose work I would really like to experience, but I've never encountered one here in the wilds of Texas.
By the way, this thread would get lots of love over in the Custom Shop sub-forum. You might ask the mods to move it. Stan
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SJ VanSandt: Check out their website (Brook Guitars.com). Go to the 3 bars at the top right, click on 'news', then 'archives'. You can see a ton of their builds going back a few years.
Fabulous instruments and the price is incredible for what you get and Andy and Simon are great to work with. There's also about a 20 min documentary about them on YT.
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Here’s a pic of an old geezer who looks suspiciously like me, standing at the workshop door with his guitar... 92691322-724C-44D7-88D1-059B8D7B1B15.jpg
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That walnut looks great! My first custom build was a claro walnut Baranik and I'm still enjoying it 15 years later, so I hope you enjoy yours for many years too.
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That's a lovely piece of English walnut Skip
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And here's the back and sides together - wetted down to show grain.
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2022 Brook Lyn Custom, 2014 Martin 000-18, 2022 Ibanez GB10, several homebrew Teles, Evans RE200 amp, Quilter 101R and various speaker cabinets, Very understanding wife of 48 years |
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Skip, that indeed is setting up to be a fingerstyle monster! I look forward to seeing how it all comes together! Congrats!
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We have English walnut here, grafted onto local (Claro or Black) root systems, and while I have built rustic furniture from it, I have yet to see any I’d want to built a guitar from. I mean no slight on the English English walnut, which I’ve seen pictures of, and can look very enticing, as this does.
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Skip,
English Walnut was my plan for the 12 fret Brook Tamar I am hoping to take delivery on by July. In the end, I opted for Koa, nonetheless, you are going to be very pleased with your Lyn. Congrats!
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