This guitar has a beautiful Western Red Cedar soundboard, Wenge back and sides, a one-piece Black Walnut neck and striped ebony for the bridge, fretboard and peghead veneer. The binding is bloodwood with contrasting black, white and blue veneer lines.
The body is an OM size. The scale is 24 3/4.” The neck measures 1 25/32″ at the nut and the string spacing at the bridge is 2 5/16.”
I know that the soundboard was cut at least 75 years ago, and that likely contributes to the powerful, rich tone of this guitar. People who have played the instrument comment that it sounds like a guitar that has been around for many decades.
FOR SALE: $7500
This instrument was inspired by a 1927 Martin OOO-18 that I recently restored. I carefully measured plate thicknesses and brace dimensions of that guitar and built this instrument accordingly, although I made it with different neck dimensions and more ornamentation. The guitar is 15 1/4″ wide and 4″ deep at the tail. The back and sides are curly Honduran mahogany, the soundboard is master grade Adirondack spruce supported with a non-scalloped, tapered X brace. The rosette and bindings are ziricote and curly maple. The H. mahogany neck is 1 3/4″ wide, with a 25 1/4″ scale and a 14″ radius. [The scale and radius are identical to the Martin.] String spacing at the ebony pyramid bridge is 2 5/16.”
For Sale: $7500
This is a multi-scale, baritone guitar. The body shape is similar to the Gretsch Super Axe, but with a rounded cutaway. The body is black walnut with a thin Sitka spruce cap and ebony bindings. The mahogany neck is 2″ wide at the nut and the ebony fretboard has a 12″ radius. The treble scale length is 27.5″ and the bass string scale is 28.75.” The pickups were custom made humbuckers by Kent Armstrong and have black walnut covers. The bridge is made of 6 Hipshot saddles on a walnut base. This finish is nitrocellulose lacquer.
This guitar features beautiful Brazilian rosewood for the back and sides and a very old, wavy grained Douglas fir soundboard. The five piece neck is composed of Honduran mahogany, curly maple and cocobolo. The neck is 1.75″ wide at the nut and the bound ebony fretboard holds a 25.0″ scale. The rosette is made with a central ring of cocobolo surrounded by curly maple and ebony.
The body is 15 1/8″ wide in the lower bout and 4 1/8″ deep at the tail
Douglas fir is a greatly underappreciated tonewood. Coupled with the Brazilian rosewood back and sides, the projection and harmonic complexity of this instrument are second to none. The guitar has the warmth and responsiveness one usually only hears in an aged, well played instrument.
