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OOOps
I forgot to say -
SOUNDCLIPS? if possible?
Cheers
Charliewood

Bob;
Absolutely beautiful woods and workmanship!!!!!
You should be proud!!

Tastefully done !!!

Mike
www.collinsguitars.com

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Mike Collins

Thank you, everyone! I have a great deal of respect for the OLF and I'm always impressed by the level of skill and passion of everyone here. Receiving such high praise from all of you is a real mind blower! And now I'm gonna' have to get a bigger hat.

Steve, The Granadillo is very much like a rosewood, real strong ring when tapped, it's sort of glassy and stiff, it's very oily and polishes up really nice... You're right, none of that sounds very much like walnut or koa. Maybe the WRC braces I used on both the top and back helped to mellow the tone of this guitar.

Dave and Charlie, There may be a sound file soon.

Thanks again everybody!!

Long

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"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” -Heraclitus of Ephesus

Just love the granadillo. Superbe colors. Kudos.

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"Building guitars looks hard, but it's actually much harder than it looks." Tom Buck

Bob, that's really beautiful. The combination of the cocobolo with the sapwood is really incredible.

I'm bowing in your general direction, Bob. Your sense of design was working at the expert level when you put that beauty together. Your craftsmanship looks great too. Well done!

Wow, Bob,

I have to add my congrats on that as well. I too was first drawn to how the maple neck morphed into or out of the sapwood. I also like how you left the headstock, well...Long. This is another guitar I will have to look at for future inspiration.

Very well done!

Shane

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Canada

Top drawer!!!! Love the sapwood...

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...