What custom guitar commissions are you expecting delivery on in 2024?

[JCM615]

I'll probably have my OM-42 from Lynn Dudenbostel in the next 60 days, really looking forward to that.
And it's a coin flip if I'll have a 1937 D-18 bench copy from Andrea and Alessio at Bagnasco & Casati by year's end, but I can hope, right?

[justonwo]

Originally Posted by JJI

This one pushed from last year but I just got a confirmed spring start! Been a minute and I’m real excited for this one.
Halland 000-H
Brazilian/Swiss
Arm bevel
1937ish Martin style burst

And a couple years back Gage built a guitar and put this really beautiful shell on the bevel, which we will do on this one too.Attachment 102648Attachment 102649

And that shell design
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I can’t wait to play it!

[JJI]

Originally Posted by justonwo

I can’t wait to play it!

That’ll be a good good day

[justonwo]

Originally Posted by JCM615

I'll probably have my OM-42 from Lynn Dudenbostel in the next 60 days, really looking forward to that.
And it's a coin flip if I'll have a 1937 D-18 bench copy from Andrea and Alessio at Bagnasco & Casati by year's end, but I can hope, right?

Wow, two really cool ones!

[jt1]

Originally Posted by JCM615

I'll probably have my OM-42 from Lynn Dudenbostel in the next 60 days, really looking forward to that.
And it's a coin flip if I'll have a 1937 D-18 bench copy from Andrea and Alessio at Bagnasco & Casati by year's end, but I can hope, right?

Fabulous! Two of (well, 3) my favorite builders.

[JCM615]

Originally Posted by justonwo

Wow, two really cool ones!

Thanks Juston: If all goes as well as I'm expecting, these should be the last 2 customs. A dread/om pair from each builder, and a couple old Martins. All that's needed then is to hang out with some of you guys and swap guitars/songs/stories!

Originally Posted by jt1

Fabulous! Two of (well, 3) my favorite builders.

Well John, I have you to thank for introducing me to B&C. Your taste in instruments "ain't too shabby"!

[jt1]

Originally Posted by JCM615

... Well John, I have you to thank for introducing me to B&C. Your taste in instruments "ain't too shabby"!

I'm certainly shabby, but I'll agree on my taste in instruments! B&C are as good as luthiers get.

Please keep us posted on both builds.

[justonwo]

Originally Posted by JCM615

Thanks Juston: If all goes as well as I'm expecting, these should be the last 2 customs. A dread/om pair from each builder, and a couple old Martins. All that's needed then is to hang out with some of you guys and swap guitars/songs/stories!



Well John, I have you to thank for introducing me to B&C. Your taste in instruments "ain't too shabby"!

Would love to meet up one day. Where are you?

jt1 is 100% shabby. Absolutely too shabby.

[jt1]

Originally Posted by justonwo

jt1 is 100% shabby. Absolutely too shabby.

I'm proudly shabby!

[s2y]

Aboudib nylon crossover should be completed sometime this month.

Wilborn Nautilus EIR/euro spruce this summer.

[JCM615]

Originally Posted by justonwo

Would love to meet up one day. Where are you?

jt1 is 100% shabby. Absolutely too shabby.

I'd love to as well. I'm generally in Nashville or Austin. So we could find a place that's inconvenient for us both..like John's place! Then I can enjoy the rare chance to hang with someone shabbier than myself!
(he does write a pretty good book, though...)

[jt1]

Originally Posted by JCM615

I'd love to as well. I'm generally in Nashville or Austin. So we could find a place that's inconvenient for us both..like John's place! Then I can enjoy the rare chance to hang with someone shabbier than myself!

Yes! S.H.I.T.T.Y. (Shabby Hagriographic Invitational Tabescent Thomasian Yawnfest)!

Let's do this!

[jojobean39]

I’m hoping to have one made by Balazs Prohaszka delivered some time this summer. We are finalizing design now. This will be my first custom build where I commission it. I’m super excited.

Prohaszka does some of the most amazing inlay work I’ve ever seen. He does the work for Avalon and Zematis guitars and I’ve always been amazed at his work.

I’m still picking the wood, but the back and sides will be one of these two movingui pieces.

[colins]

Originally Posted by jojobean39

I’m hoping to have one made by Balazs Prohaszka delivered some time this summer. We are finalizing design now. This will be my first custom build where I commission it. I’m super excited.

Prohaszka does some of the most amazing inlay work I’ve ever seen. He does the work for Avalon and Zematis guitars and I’ve always been amazed at his work.

I’m still picking the wood, but the back and sides will be one of these two movingui pieces.

I have not come across movingui before; what beautiful wood! Like sunlight on water. That, plus some fine inlay, is going to result in a visual masterpiece.

[iim7V7IM7]

Yes, Movingui is a beautiful African hardwood that in cases is sometimes confused with the denser, harder, stiffer, lower damping East Indian Satinwood (Ceylon Satinswood) due to its yellow color and chatoyant, mottled figure that both can present when quartersawn. It is sometimes referred to as Nigerian Satinwood. I have been offered with it as an option by luthiers before when selecting back and sides.