"Dandelion" by Masaaki Kishibe on a Cedar/ABW Uchida 15"

[Dustinfurlow]

Hi AGF fam,

Wanted to share a recording recently taped at Dream Guitars of one of favorite fingerstyle pieces of all time...this guitar feels perfect for this song in that it has all the warmth of Cedar for the melodies and a nice low-midrange foundation for the bass even when capo'd. This is a really interesting 15" guitar made by legendary builder Mitsuhiro Uchida in Japan, some may know of him by Isaac Jang, as he is the original developer of the "bendaway" modern cutaway. Beautiful sounding and looking guitar that is noticeably different than any guitar I've ever played. Hope it speaks to you :-)

[RilesMcGiles]

Sounds beautiful, Dustin. I agree, that guitar really sings with the Kishibe song choice The bendaway is a neat concept, but I have to think it's tricky to heat the sides and form just right!!

[Dustinfurlow]

Originally Posted by RilesMcGiles

Sounds beautiful, Dustin. I agree, that guitar really sings with the Kishibe song choice The bendaway is a neat concept, but I have to think it's tricky to heat the sides and form just right!!

Lots of mindbending stuff on this guitar, but the voice is still the headliner :-)

[Guitars44me]

Guitar sounds great Dustin, and so to you, as always! My goodness this gentleman builds some beautiful instruments….

Hope you’re having lots of fun in Asheville. I’m a bit jealous…

Cheers

Paul.

[islandguitar]

Hi Dustin!!

Beautiful sound and performance!!! Thanks for sharing this one....and showcasing such an amazing guitar.
All the best,
Fred

[Palladio]

I dig the design concept of the headstock. It gives almost perfectly straight string paths for all 6 strings, and also must reduce the overall weight of the headstock. I love light guitars, but they inevitably are neck heavy, even when using the lightest tuning machines possible.

Do you know if this headstock reinforced in any way, or just the wood?

And more importantly, such a beautiful interpretation of this song Dustin. Thanks for posting it.

[rémy64]

Very nice sound!

[SeattleCard]

So good Dustin. Really neat guitar, but even better playing - what a song!

[Dustinfurlow]

Originally Posted by Guitars44me

Guitar sounds great Dustin, and so to you, as always! My goodness this gentleman builds some beautiful instruments….

Hope you’re having lots of fun in Asheville. I’m a bit jealous…

Cheers

Paul.

Cheers to you!

Originally Posted by islandguitar

Hi Dustin!!

Beautiful sound and performance!!! Thanks for sharing this one....and showcasing such an amazing guitar.
All the best,
Fred

You'd love this one, Fred. Hope to have you at DG one day :-)

Originally Posted by Palladio

I dig the design concept of the headstock. It gives almost perfectly straight string paths for all 6 strings, and also must reduce the overall weight of the headstock. I love light guitars, but they inevitably are neck heavy, even when using the lightest tuning machines possible.

Do you know if this headstock reinforced in any way, or just the wood?

And more importantly, such a beautiful interpretation of this song Dustin. Thanks for posting it.

Thank you for listening, I love Masaaki's songs.

Originally Posted by rémy64

Very nice sound!

It's a ton of fun :-)

Originally Posted by SeattleCard

So good Dustin. Really neat guitar, but even better playing - what a song!

Thank you!

[roscoe2311]

Commented on the video already but thought I'd chime in here too, beautiful playing on a really unique sounding and gorgeous guitar!

[Dustinfurlow]

Cheers, man! Thank you

[SprintBob]

Beautiful job on such a unique guitar (on the market for almost $62k, wow!). It’s good to hear you do another Kishibe song. You did a performance of Hana several years ago that was very inspiring to me.

[Dustinfurlow]

Originally Posted by SprintBob

Beautiful job on such a unique guitar (on the market for almost $62k, wow!). It’s good to hear you do another Kishibe song. You did a performance of Hana several years ago that was very inspiring to me.

Thank you very much! I need to relearn that one