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This is my ninth guitar. I really like it!
It is Adirondack spruce on Oregon Myrtle, with zirocote bindings, fretboard, headstock and bridge.
The segmented rosette and bottom wedge are spalted maple.
The finish is Crystalac gloss with a little amber tint. Black Gotoh tuners.
The neck is mahogany, oak and walnut.
27.5" scale. OLF SJ body size.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful Those are big honking frets!!

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A higher purpose for wood.
Rich Smith
Issaquah, WA

Nice Steve! I like your choice of woods. How's she sound?

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jw ( o)===:::

Joe,
I really like the sound. I haven't put on baritone strings yet. I tried using mediums.
I can't wait until the real strings show up so I can really give it a spin.
I made it with a fairly thin top (.090'), and left the braces a little taller than I would have for a standard guitar.
One of the biggest mistakes I made was not having you do the finish!

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Looks great from here!

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jw ( o)===:::

Beautiful instrument, Steve. Nice work, and nice selections of woods. It all goes together very well.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Having built with oregon myrtle before, I know that no picture can capture the beauty of the wood. This guitar is drop dead gorgeous!

Well done my friend!

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Reguards,

Ken H

Good job, Steve!

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Howard Klepper
http://www.klepperguitars.com

When all else fails, clean the shop.

Really nice work Steve!

You going to post some mp3's when you get the strings?

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Steve,

Lovely guitar - baritones can be addictive.

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

This is a great looking guitar Steve and I am sure that when you get your strings she will sound great too. Nice job!!

Beautiful, Steve, absolutely beautiful!

You have really made that myrtle gleam. I hope that I can bring the best out the myrtle OM I am building at the moment. A lovely wood to work with.

Love the choice of binding too- the myrtle seems versatile with certain binding woods- I have used curly koa on mine, and that goes well too.

A question about the bridge, if you don't mind. I remember you showcasing that design sometime back; and I really like the unique design- are there any structural/tonal reasons why you have chosen to take material off the bridge wings?

Great looking guitar Steve. I really like the wood choice, color combo, and the wheat purfling.

We thought about koa. The first thought, before the guitar was being built, was bloodwood. But when that body took shape, bloodwood just didn't seem to work, so we tried other woods like koa. I'm sure your guitar will be great, but this one seemed to need the ziricote.



Yes - I treat the bridge as a brace.
I wanted to reduce overall weight and reduce stiffness at the wings, hoping to increase bass response.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Zoinks!

That's awesome! I love that stripey adi top...and the ziricote appointments are fantastic as well. Nice job...

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Hello Steve...she looks beautiful!

Greg

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Gwaltney Guitars

I love the bridge shape and the effect of the ziricote components. Beautiful.

I'm eager to hear more about the sound, once you get it strung up baritonely (how's that for a new word?).

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Todd Rose
Ithaca, NY

https://www.dreamingrosesecobnb.com/todds-art-music

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When I first strung this guitar up, I put on C.F. Martin Acoustic Marquis 92/8 Phosphor Bronze Medium, .013 - .056. I tuned it standard shape to D. It sounded good to my ears. The top was active, it was lively across all strings, and the low D rang out nicely. If I tuned it lower, the strings got too floppy to work the top and buzzed against the frets.

Not wanting to leave good enough alone, I put on D'Addario Acoustic Baritone Guitar strings, .016 - .070. I tuned it to standard shape to B. The top is not nearly as engaged. The low B does not activate the top. It sounds a bit muted. overall, it sounds OK, the tone is pleasant, but the top is not very active. It does not vibrate like it did with the mediums.

I have a set of Elixir Electric Guitar Baritone NanoWeb .012 - .068. I'm thinking about trying those.

This is my first baritone. The client wants to have it in B tuning.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

Hey Steve,
looking good!
Maybe Matt Mustapick may be able to help since he has built several baritone guitars.
Shoot him an email....

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Peter M.
Cornerstone Guitars
http://www.cornerstoneukes.com

Steve,

For B-B try a set of D'Addario EJ 16's (12-53) discard the first string (12) and buy a single 66 for the bottom string. If you don't like the feel of the wound 24 as second string use a 20 unwound.

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Dave White
De Faoite Stringed Instruments
". . . the one thing a machine just can't do is give you character and personalities and sometimes that comes with flaws, but it always comes with humanity" Monty Don talking about hand weaving, "Mastercrafts", Weaving, BBC March 2010

Hey Steve, that looks great.
Let us know what you settle on, and what works for this guitar.
Any pix of the braced top before closing the box?

Steve K

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From Nacogdoches...the oldest town in Texas.

http://www.stephenkinnaird.com

I'm getting used to the baritone strings.
It must sound pretty good, I let a guy play it and after 20 minutes he decided to order one. That was pretty exciting.
I just need to touch it up a bit and ship it to the client.

BTW - This is a 14 fret model.

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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." G. K. Chesterton.

YES!
Good job!

Great looking guitar Steve!

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