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07-06-2020, 04:03 PM
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Bruce chose a piece of lighter weight Ceylon Ebony to make the belly bridge. Here it is sanded to 320 grit.
 Here is a shot of the bridge being located on the top with drill bits used to hold it in place while he scribes the oil varnish. The beautiful curly maple (instead of traditional ivoroid) is the rosette and purflings can now be seen.  You can see how beautifully quartered the Red Spruce top is by the amount of medullary rays seen in this shot. You can see the scribed perimeter of bridge ready for scraping.  The belly bridge is now HHG’d to the top and being held in place with 3 cam clamps. 
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#107
07-06-2020, 04:09 PM
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That top looks amazing!
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2013 Stehr Auditorium (Carpathian/Myrtle) 2015 Stehr Auditorium (Adi/BRW) 2020 Baranik Meridian (Blue Spruce/Manchinga) 2020 Wilborn Arum (Tunnel 14/Coco) 2021 Kinnaird Graybeard (BC Cedar/Bog Oak) 2022 Kinnaird CS Student Build (Adi/Padauk) 2023 Kinnaird FS (Italian/Koa)
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#108
07-07-2020, 06:14 PM
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Bridge
Rumors from Petaluma abound about this guitar actually having strings on it and even making pleasing sounds, but alas I have no photos to share with you as of now. What I can share is a photo of the Ceylon Ebony bridge, now successfully HHG’d to the Red Spruce top. The string holes have been counter sunk and reamed. Bruce has routed a saddle lot and has fabricated a Cow Bone saddle.
I really like the look of the traditional rosette design where Bruce has substituted purfled curly Bigleaf Maple rings instead of the Ivoroid plastic used by the Nazareth Mothership...  
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07-07-2020, 07:22 PM
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I have been playing this guitar for the last couple of hours, and I do hope Bob is sitting when he gets it as he may fall over when he hears this one! This guitar has major juice.
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07-07-2020, 07:34 PM
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07-07-2020, 07:40 PM
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07-09-2020, 10:23 AM
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That top is incredibly perfect. I really like the pickguard colors and shape too. The Myrtle looks like Koa, does it sound like Koa, Mahogany, or darker like a Rosewood?
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07-09-2020, 10:33 AM
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). The Myrtle has been treated and stained to achieve the hue and bring out the figure so that partly explains its look. I honestly have no idea how it will sound other than I am sure that I will like it.... Bruce has been playing it so he can chime in? I will of course share my impressions once I get it.
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07-09-2020, 10:49 AM
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Well Bruce keeps getting better and better with every guitar. My 000-12c is Italian over Cocobolo and an astonishing 185 guitars and 15 years earlier than this 300th. Mine is in the top 2 guitars I’ve ever played. I can’t imagine one better. I just re-strung it yesterday and it still makes my jaw drop and just gives me a grin knowing how lucky I am to have one these 300 incredible guitars. Bruce says his current ones are the best he’s ever made. I’m certain this one will sing. Play it in good health.
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#120
07-09-2020, 11:04 AM
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I plan to get around to final pictures later today and will make a page for my website, and let you readers know too. Meanwhile, on the third day of the guitar's existance, I do have a good idea how it came out.
I have had an upsurge run on my results starting with Rob Pierce's Pernambuco L00 a few months ago, and this Myrtle guitar continues the trend. I do not know what changed. The results have been outstanding (IMO) for many years, and every now and again they bump up noticeably. I make incremental changes all the time, rarely anything major, yet somehow when improvement happens, it seems to stick. I did not know what to expect from the Myrtle, but being one of my guitars, and the wood all being of the highest caliber, I certainly had high expectations. I did not expect the sheer volume of this guitar, nor the breadth of its tonal envelope. I usually string starting with the low E, but on this one I put the high e on first. With the one string on I plucked it alone, and immediately knew I had something special. The guitar is still "in process" so sitting on my bench on its back. When I walk by it I often pluck the low E and it stops me in my tracks, the sound is so huge and so surpassingly beautiful, and lacking in no way . . . on the third day!!! Pictures soon.
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