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09-11-2018, 12:33 PM
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Skytop Goes Teredo for Custom Build
We recently met up with a dynamic young player, Yasmin Williams, who was on the hunt for a quality steel string to take her playing to the next level. Here's a sample of the kind of tone we're talking about here:*https://www.facebook.com/dreamguitar...2839427746979/.* After taste testing nearly every guitar we had in the shop, she finally found what she was looking for in Eric Weigeshoff's Skytop Guitars. Yasmin had a few additional requests, and after working out the details with Eric we've settled on a custom build with a Toredo-holed Sitka top, multiscale fingerboard, and a few other juicy details. According to Eric, the Sitka came from a "log that was a float log in Alaska for about 50 years, and the mollusks got in then. Most of it was used for firewood, but I got a stash of it that’s been great to use as soundboards. This will be my 4th Teredo-holed guitar." Eric has already started the build, and we wanted to keep you all in the loop as it progresses. Stay tuned and keep checking back, there's a lot more coming down the line!
Custom Skytop Grand Concert Multiscale fingerboard: 25.4" to 24.9" Back: Indian Rosewood Top: Teredo-Holed Sitka Spruce Binding & end graft: Curly Koa Top/back purfling: B/W/B Side purfling: Maple Neck: Honduran Mahogany, C Shape Nut: 1-11/16" Saddle spacing: 2-1/4" Bridge: pinless Ebony Fretboard binding & 12th fret: Curly Koa Headstock veneer: Ebony Backstrap: Indian Rosewood Tuners: Gotoh 510 Cosmo Black Florentine Cutaway         
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09-28-2018, 01:18 PM
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Skytop Goes Teredo for Custom Build: Sept 28, 2018 Update
It's been a few weeks, but Eric's been busy at work on our custom build for Yasmin Williams. Now he's finished building the jig for the multiscale fretboard, roughed-in the soundports, and glued and carved the back braces. Stay tuned for more!
          
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10-11-2018, 09:18 AM
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10/11/18 Update
10/11/18 update from Eric: "Got the top braced and carved, and closed up the box this week."
    
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11-05-2018, 12:06 PM
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11/5/18 update from Eric: "All coming along swimmingly at this point. Got the box closed and bound, and now working on the fretboard."
           
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11-05-2018, 11:34 PM
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Paul, great pics - thank you! I have a view of the "Fire Tower" on Eric's headstock from my bedroom window, so I am anxious to hear the sound clips.
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11-07-2018, 05:31 PM
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Chippy Green
Hey there Chippy Green - If you are in the greater New Paltzian area, I would love to have you over to the shop to play a few guitars!
All the best, Eric Skytop Guitars
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11-07-2018, 08:17 PM
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Eric - for sure! I am just over in Stone Ridge and would love to find the opportunity when I am next up there!
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Bashkin 00-12 Adi/Hog Bashkin 0M-MS Swiss Moon/PRW(build thread) Bashkin GC-12 Sitka/Koa Carter-Poulsen J-Model German Select Spruce/MacEb Fender MIJ Strat ('90) and 50s RW Tele ('19) Martin 00-28c Spruce/BRW('67) Martin M-36 (R) Sitka/EIR Michaud O-R Cedar/Koa - New Build Michaud J-R Sitka/MBW K. Yairi RF-120 Spruce/EIR KoAloha KTM-25 Koa/Koa Yamaha G-231 Cedar/Hog ('71)
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11-08-2018, 07:14 PM
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Please do!
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12-03-2018, 02:06 PM
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12/3/18 Update!
     
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