Hatcher's Studio 2018

[printer2]

Got to love what wood the big boys use for their jigs.

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by mikealpine

Great! Looking forward to seeing you there, and seeing your guitars.

Great! Glad you are making it out to the show!

Originally Posted by printer2

Got to love what wood the big boys use for their jigs.

Yeah, That’s a Purpleheart board. It’s when you start resawing that miscellaneous woods start showing up everywhere.

Mark

[Mark Hatcher]

The finish is on this quilted Josie small jumbo model:



Here is a close up of the Cocobolo bevel in the cut away:



Here is the Cocobolo bound headstock with abalone purfling and various woods in a wave pattern:



The wave pattern is carried to the back of the neck as well:



You might say the wave motif is carried across the entire guitar:



Thanks for viewing!
Mark

[Burton LeGeyt]

Love the headstock Mark! Very cool

[cigarfan]

Eye popping gorgeous all the way around! There are so many waves I’m afraid after staring it may take some time to get my land legs back. Awesome work Mark. A masterpiece.

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by Burton LeGeyt

Love the headstock Mark! Very cool

Thanks Burton, it’s not your usual headstock!

Originally Posted by cigarfan

Eye popping gorgeous all the way around! There are so many waves I’m afraid after staring it make take some time to get my land legs back. Awesome work Mark. A masterpiece.

People sometimes like to name their guitars. I’m thinking Hurricane Josie
Thanks,
Mark

[sakar12]

An incredibly stunning guitar!

[Guitars44me]

What Dennis said! Outstanding!!!!

Originally Posted by cigarfan

Eye popping gorgeous all the way around! There are so many waves I’m afraid after staring it may take some time to get my land legs back. Awesome work Mark. A masterpiece.

Thanks for sharing this EYE CANDY

I am sure the new owner will be thrilled with the bevels and port, too! No way to go back for me, so be forewarned! Haha

Paul

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by sakar12

An incredibly stunning guitar!

Thanks sakar12!

Originally Posted by Guitars44me

What Dennis said! Outstanding!!!!



Thanks for sharing this EYE CANDY

I am sure the new owner will be thrilled with the bevels and port, too! No way to go back for me, so be forewarned! Haha

Paul

Thanks Paul, it is hard to retrofit bevels on a guitar. They certainly do add some comfort.

Thanks for commenting
Mark

[Guitars44me]

Hey Mark

I meant go back to no bevels, as John Kinnaird has put them on my customs, at my repeated requests.

Boy, if someone could figure out how to retrofit bevels and ports and make them really nice they would have a LOT of customers, I wager.

This guitar is staggeringly beautiful!

Way to go !!!

Paul

[CoolerKing]

Originally Posted by Mark Hatcher

The finish is on this quilted Josie small jumbo model:

The wave pattern is carried to the back of the neck as well:



Thanks for viewing!
Mark

Oh drool. You know I like that figuring.

[The Bard Rocks]

Mark, I cannot think of another builder who exhibits a better sense of aesthetics than you do. One after another - just beautiful. And it's not all due to outstanding photography either; they are just as nice in person as the viewer could hope.

For those who may be reading who have not played one of your creations. I have played several and can attest that what one's ears hear and what one's hands feel is comparable to the aesthetics of how it looks like on the screen here.

[Jamiejoon]

Originally Posted by Mark Hatcher

The finish is on this quilted Josie small jumbo model:



Here is a close up of the Cocobolo bevel in the cut away:



Here is the Cocobolo bound headstock with abalone purfling and various woods in a wave pattern:



The wave pattern is carried to the back of the neck as well:



You might say the wave motif is carried across the entire guitar:



Thanks for viewing!
Mark

Wow, that is just insanely beautiful. Mark, you keep outdoing yourself. Another masterpiece!

[Mark Hatcher]

Originally Posted by Guitars44me

Hey Mark

I meant go back to no bevels, as John Kinnaird has put them on my customs, at my repeated requests.

Boy, if someone could figure out how to retrofit bevels and ports and make them really nice they would have a LOT of customers, I wager.

This guitar is staggeringly beautiful!

Way to go !!!

Paul

Thanks Paul, Soundports aren’t always too difficult to retrofit. In fact, I really didn’t like sound ports initially. I would call them “PEO”s (plectrum extraction orifice). I had someone offer to buy a spec Josie small jumbo on the condition that I retrofitted a sound port. So I reluctantly did and was very surprised with the result on that guitar. I stopped calling them PEOs and had to eat crow for other builders who I’d been complaining to about soundports!

Originally Posted by matthewpartrick

Oh drool. You know I like that figuring.

I do know your comittment to a pretty piece of wood!

Originally Posted by The Bard Rocks

Mark, I cannot think of another builder who exhibits a better sense of aesthetics than you do. One after another - just beautiful. And it's not all due to outstanding photography either; they are just as nice in person as the viewer could hope.

For those who may be reading who have not played one of your creations. I have played several and can attest that what one's ears hear and what one's hands feel is comparable to the aesthetics of how it looks like on the screen here.

Thank you for the endorsement! I only wish I could find 10 more sets of that bacon figured Padauk we used on your guitar! I do really appreciate your comments here! Mark

Originally Posted by Jamiejoon

Wow, that is just insanely beautiful. Mark, you keep outdoing yourself. Another masterpiece!

Thank you Jamiejoon, not bad looking wood for a mostly domestic guitar, right? I was able to get three guitars from the billet this Maple came from. One of them went to Germany so I suppose it might be considered exotic wood there.

I’ve made a commitment to build with mostly domestic and finding it a lot easier to do than I initially thought!

Thanks for commenting!
Mark

[invguy921]

WOW!! Mark, that is just another stunning guitar. Gorgeous work on the headstock, and just beautiful aesthetics all around.

Very impressive work. As Paul said...Eye candy indeed!