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3 or more Amish women with nothing to do????
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Stress? Genetics? I know it's rare and shows on flat sawn wood. It looks like curly maple when it's quarter sawn but not all curly figure turns quilted when flat sawn so go figure. I've also heard that only grandmother trees can make quilted maple.
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That quilt is unbelievable. Will turn out to be a killer guitar for sure and I can already hear the dry, clear and sweet tone coming out of this beautiful box.
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"future shows"
You mentioned you are making spec guitars for "future shows". Is there a show in the works somewhere that you are targeting in particular?
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There are large markets that I just haven't had exposure in. All this is over the next couple years as there is quite an investment in time and money getting spec guitars together.
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Show Specs
Here is a picture of the materials for the second spec guitar I've recently started:
This will be a Brazilian Rosewood Greta grand auditorium model with a Florentine cutaway. In the picture you see I selected a light colored Western Cedar top and am using gold EVO fretwire and all gold Schertler open back tuners. There are two pieces of bark from 20,000yr/old+ wooly mammoth tusks that I'll use for the heel cap and truss rod cover. I'll also use wooly mammoth ivory for my edge type fret markers. Finally, for the rosette there is a piece of curly Red Oak burl that fell into my hands while I was bringing in fire wood. I'm going for a subtle organic look on this guitar highlighted with gold and trimmed in Black Ebony. If someone asked me to build what I think is the best sounding guitar I can build, this is it. It will have a very active cedar lattice braced back and be a culmination of what I believe are the best elements of the best sounding guitars I've made to date.
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I have a feeling this spec will not be making it to any shows hahah!
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It certainly wouldn't bother me if the guitar didn't make it to a show! Mark
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I am going to be real interested in the softwood back. I am guessing that it will be much lighter than normal backs resulting in a more resonant back. Should make for a very 3D sounding guitar.
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I'm sorry Fred, I could have worded that better. This is a thin BRW back with cedar braces in a lattice configuration. A cedar backed guitar would be a whole different animal.
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You always have the most beautiful wood! I can't wait to see the cedar/brz come alive.
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Cherry Picking
I visited with a collectable knife maker friend of mine today who is retiring and had the opportunity to cherry pick through a very old collection of wooly mammoth ivory and tusk bark. I also picked up some exhibition grade white mother of pearl as well as some of the best gold mother of pearl I've seen:
Here is a picture of some of the wooly mammoth pieces I got. You can see where they get the term "tusk bark" on that top middle piece: Here is some of the mother of pearl. The gold pearl coloring runs quite deep which is rare: That gold will definitely find it's way into the BRW spec I'm currently working on. I was like a kid in a candy store! Mark
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