Thanks everyone!

A friend of mine's father was a commercial fisherman and sometime in the 60's they were fishing in Brazil for the winter and were headed back here with an empty boat. They loaded it up with hardwood and brought it back to sell. He still had a decent sized log of Brazilian Rosewood. Apparently the only thing he has left from his father. I agreed to make him a couple jewelry boxes out of it for his daughters and I got to keep enough to make a couple acoustic guitars. I just finished the boxes. Re-sawing Brazilian Rosewood was nuts!!!

Absolutely love shit like this. "This box pappy gave me wuz the last bit of wood granpap had guv 'im from when he went round the horn..." Love it.

I know, right! I gave them to him yesterday and he was psyched. I really like how they came out. I have some walnut that I'm thinking I could use to make one for my daughter for christmas.

Finished up this cute little guy. I designed it to be tuned to G and the scale length is basically the equivalent of where the third fret would be so it's kind of like a guitar with a permanent capo on the third fret. Unlike most small guitars I've seen, the neck is a normal width so it's comfortable for an adult to play. Top is Spruce, back and sides are Osage Orange, neck is Mahogany and the bridge, fingerboard and headstock plate are ebony.

elisha wiesner wrote:Finished up this cute little guy. I designed it to be tuned to G and the scale length is basically the equivalent of where the third fret would be so it's kind of like a guitar with a permanent capo on the third fret. Unlike most small guitars I've seen, the neck is a normal width so it's comfortable for an adult to play. Top is Spruce, back and sides are Osage Orange, neck is Mahogany and the bridge, fingerboard and headstock plate are ebony. This guitar is beautiful and the construction is top notch. Again. I imagine you could tune it into something like tenor guitar tuning with extra strings on top and bottom. In fact, that's pretty much what you described, kinda sorta. Cool cool cool.

To me those little curve balls you throw, say like the inlays starting on the 15th fret or the heel (or is that the butt?) of the neck are my favorite little appointments. I ve seen you do that in little spots on your other guitars and it s so cool.

Your shit never ceases to amaze. Osage orange is crazy dense with torture grain, and you bent it into a ukulele like a fucking maniac. Seriously, what the fuck. You psycho.

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:To me those little curve balls you throw, say like the inlays starting on the 15th fret or the heel (or is that the butt?) of the neck are my favorite little appointments. I ve seen you do that in little spots on your other guitars and it s so cool.Completely agree. Subtle, classic-looking, but really unique. A lot of makers seem to "go large" with those kind of details, and it ends up looking gaudy or flash, but that's just beautiful. Top work, sir.

elisha wiesner wrote:I've always liked playing with a capo on the third fret so I just made a guitar that is sort of always that. The scale length is right where a third fret capo would go and it's tuned to G. It would also work tuned to A but sounds sweeter in G.Did you know about Terz guitars before you started this?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terz\_guitar