Here is the neck for the Very Nice Guitar, which is not yet officially named. I invite your input in this regard. The neck is mahogany with a curly maple center lamination and ebony pins. The mahogany is so lovely and dark and fine grained that it looks like old cherry. Just magnificent. It makes me excited about what is next. The guitar body will be made of Lutz Spruce, a hybrid of White and Sitka Spruce, which seems to be the rage right now, from Shane Neifer at High Mountain Tonewood Co., in Terrance B.C. (Canada). The stuff I have is quirky in appearance, but rings like a bell, and that is no exaggeration. The back and sides will be some nice Indian Rosewood I have from the Zootman, Bob Cefalu, at RC Tonewoods in New York. No other decisions have been made as of yet.
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Steve, I am, to use a popular phrase, "blown away". Or to use a less popular phrase: "then and attic".
Thrilled beyond my ability to quickly respond!!!!!!!!!
I am so glad! But don't get too excited, it may take a while to finish! I can't really close the body until September or October due to the crazy humidity here during the summer, which I am sure you recall with no small amount of horror.
I actually miss that humidity!
I like being too excited!
That makes too of us excited people!
Because it is really, really starting to happen now!!
The neck is so beautiful, it has a delicious reddish color, while playing it I often forget to play and just stop and look at it.
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