Show me some bearclaw!!!

[fitness1]

One that got away....

[FretMuse]

Thanks much David. I love the "took up the guitar at 62 as penance ..."

I took it up at six, played "Till There was You" in front of approx. 350 people about 3 months after the Beatles played it on Ed Sullivan in late-February of 1964. A short while later my mother moved me and my siblings to the Hammond Organ, where I spent almost a decade taking lessons. Then, life and work got in the way. Now relearning and rediscovering the joy of guitar after a sixty-year hiatus.

Notice you hail from Maine. My wife and I have a home midcoast.

Gary

[BrunoBlack]

I only own 1 with bear claw, but it’s Adirondack & I think that’s a bit unusual. In any case, I like it.

[dragon1952]

My Taylor 114e.

[TomB'sox]

Originally Posted by FretMuse

After enjoying AGF for the past two years from the sidelines because I have an Apple "@me.com" email address, I finally got an Outlook email address so I could begin to join in and actively participate.

When I saw this thread earlier today I knew it was the right time to make my first post because I just bought this 2013 Bourgeois 0-Custom, only a week ago!

It's a stunning, pristine, and absolutely delightful instrument ... Bearclaw Italian Spruce/MRW.

Welcome to the forum, glad to have you, and beautiful guitar!

[FretMuse]

Originally Posted by TomB'sox

Welcome to the forum, glad to have you, and beautiful guitar!

Thank you TomB'sox!

Interestingly, I discovered a great deal of insight about this instrument here on AGF when I started doing some research on the guitar. I already had a new Bourgeois 00, which I love, but I made the serendipitous mistake of going to Matt's Music to buy a Mono bag for my tele. That's when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the 0 hanging in the store's acoustic room. The minute I picked it up it sang to me. It was an eleven-year-old guitar in "like-new" condition, not a blemish on it. Still had its original strings, and it was like it had hardly been strummed. I definitely didn't need it, but GAS took control.

I came home, started researching it, found this thread (below) here on AGF from 2014.

Turns out, best I understand the instrument's history, the original owner left the guitar to one of his kids who served as its caretaker before consigning it recently to Matt's. I feel very lucky to be its new owner and custodian.

https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=364903

[sinistral]

Originally Posted by soups

My bourgeois JOM - euro spruce

It’s tricky photographing bearclaw, and you really captured it!

Here are a couple of Martins that were at the Guitar Center in Manhattan at the same time a while back:

[Shuksan]

I'm a fan of bearclaw particularly when the bookmatch produces a symmetrical pattern around the centerline like on this one I built several years ago.

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[FretMuse]

Originally Posted by Shuksan

I'm a fan of bearclaw particularly when the bookmatch produces a symmetrical pattern around the centerline like on this one I built several years ago.

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She's a real beauty!

[Brushwood]

Got just a bit of Bearclaw on my Gordon Guitar Works G-000.
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[Martz911]

A few Goodalls with bear claw figuring.

[Myopic Squirrel]

To the guitar uneducated, can’t help thinking if I brought one of these beauties home, friends would think I bought a “second”….