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Rotfl! Like the loaves and the fishes. Hope you are healing up!
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Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the article and like always, enjoyed the follow-up comments even more!
I've resigned myself to not owning a Kim Walker and a guitar from the Tree is in the same vein. They are like ghost orchids for me...Something that I'll never have. And that's OK! |
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I have gotten a lot of grief from friends who read the article and I'm now known as an "amateur" guitar player. :-)
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I was literally in the room when the Tree showed up at Handloggers Hardwoods. At that time I was tight with Tim Mahoney (rip) and built him some furniture and cabinet work in his home, as well as a couple of musical instruments. At the time that the Tree first arrived, he was selling it for $15 a board foot, somewhat less than the Smithsonian article says. Regular Honduran Mahogany was $3.30 a foot at the time, and the D. tucurensis I bought from him then and am still building with cost $7 a foot, the Tree seemed quite dear to me.
At the time I had no interest in building guitars with it as virtually all of it that I saw was flat sawn, which is what best reveals the prized figure. As it turns out there was a bit of quartered material in the mix, and years later I did acquire some, building my first tree guitar from it about 5 years ago at this point. For the reasons I avoided it initially, I was quite correct, as it is incredibly difficult to build with, being silly fragile, especially if one builds as delicately as I do. I have build 4 instruments from it now, and two of them have master grade repair incorporated due to broken sides. The good news is that properly repaired with HHG, the glue lines are virtually undetectable. I have one more set on hand, but it'll be okay with me if I never use it. |
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That was an enjoyable read. Thanks for sharing!
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I've been lucky (and determined!) enough to have 4 'tree' guitars made for me - 3 by Mike Baranik and 1 by Tim McKnight. I would tend to agree with the mixed "response" - for me the striking appearance was the first draw, but I believe I can distinguish some features of the tonality from other guitar sets.
Nice article, and happy to have found an April 2022 issue on ebay to add to my documentation stash! Phil
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Edit: Did that article just refer to Michael Watts as a virtuoso guitar player? Right...
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Looking a the pictures… Well I won’t dive further into this.
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Mention of these trees being around at the time of a political assassination in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. |
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I've been in that shed. Last time I was there he bought a new truck when I left!
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