steve wrote: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. Thanks Steve! The osage orange was nuts to work with but I love how it looks and sounds. It might be a bit yellow for the general guitar public but I definitely want to make another one out of it. 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.Dudley wrote: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. I really like the small dots too. Mosrite used dots like this and I've always thought they were great looking guitars. I've done the thee slanted dots on most of them now and like it. I don't have any headstock logo so I kind of think it identifies the guitar or some shit. Also a big fan of not going crazy with the bling on a guitar. endofanera wrote: 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. Thanks! The idea with this one was to make a perfect couch or travel guitar but still have a really good sounding instrument. It's small and not terribly loud which is great for playing at my house at night with the kids sleeping but I'd also totally play a gig with it. 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.

benadrian wrote: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 Yes. I'm a fan but they usually have narrow student size necks, which doesn't work well for my fat hands.

Love playing my acoustic with a capo on 2,3 or 4. Just sounds a little more œzingy

TylerSavage wrote:elisha wiesner wrote: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!!! That's awesome.I would be very cautious mailing that to your friend!!! CITES restrictions on brazilian rosewood are pretty strict, and even though a common customs agent might just pass it on, (especially since you're a single non-business) you stand to risk losing the items. Oh yeah, I definitely wouldn't mail these out of the country. My friend's dad brought the wood back here from Brazil in the 60's and he lives about 20 minutes from me. I brought them to him the other night.

elisha wiesner wrote: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!!! That's awesome.I would be very cautious mailing that to your friend!!! CITES restrictions on brazilian rosewood are pretty strict, and even though a common customs agent might just pass it on, (especially since you're a single non-business) you stand to risk losing the items.

oh right on - Great job - I'd be happy to be ashes in those boxes

Alright, just wrapping up the last one from 2018. I build the bodies in the winter when the humidity is super low so there won't be anymore until probably late spring. I've already started on a couple for 2019. This one is a spruce, East Indian rosewood back and sides and Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard, headstock plate and bridge. It's the first guitar that I've built that wasn't specifically for someone and I I'm going to try to sell it. Tell your friends.

Jesus christ on a stick.

gorgeous.

elisha wiesner wrote:Alright, just wrapping up the last one from 2018. I build the bodies in the winter when the humidity is super low so there won't be anymore until probably late spring. I've already started on a couple for 2019. This one is a spruce, East Indian rosewood back and sides and Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard, headstock plate and bridge. It's the first guitar that I've built that wasn't specifically for someone and I I'm going to try to sell it. Tell your friends. you put that on consignment somewhere and if you don't watch yourself you'll have a business on your hands