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[QUOTE=MichaelP] Mostly a OM 14 fret IRW b/s with curly Koa top.[/QUOTE]

Interesting combination Micheal. Would you do it again? And how would you compare it's sound to an all Koa guitar?

TIA,

Roy

[QUOTE=Roy O] [QUOTE=MichaelP] Mostly a OM 14 fret IRW b/s with curly Koa top.[/QUOTE]

Interesting combination Micheal. Would you do it again? And how would you compare it's sound to an all Koa guitar?

TIA,

Roy[/QUOTE]

In a heart beat. I have Alvarez Yairi WY1K that is all Koa GC it's tone is very warm and woody but somewhat on the bassy side. My thinking on the IRW with koa top was to keep the warmth but try not to lose the treabel clearity and brightness. It all work very well togather. I have sold 3 IRW bs with Koa tops since. Two other OM's and a Dreadnaught. The Dreadnaught was a bit more bassy but still pretty nice

The radio or cd player.

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I do have a Hohner Rockwood bass from back in my garage band days (I started out as a bass player). It has the sweetest neck I've ever played. Id didn't know we were mentioning other instruments too, my list gets very long if we do that.JBreault38743.6910648148

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I have a Les Paul Classic that I play in church...I was real into the fingerstyle scene and have had several Taylors from one time to another, but my wife "advised" me to sell them when I started building!

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I play my first 2 steel string 14 fret SJ's, and I also have a Santa Cruz F model and a Cordoba classical. I just finished the little cigar box ukulele, and plan on making a bouzouki sometime in the future.
Tracy

Can't resist a good question...but I've had many $2,000 guitars, martins and gibsons and I always go back to my old 70's nippon japan red label fg110 yamaha acoustic electric. It has a wonderful tone and the sounhole pickup is great for fingerpicking but it really shines on the Ry Cooder type slide. I took a cheap karaoke mike that was being thrown away (just the end part) and mounted it under my sound board where the x bracing meets and turned my factory tone switch into a volume added a stereo jack and it sounds awesome plugged in as well. When a mike is broken it picks the sounboard up from the backside and of course the front is the mike. I'll be glad to post pictures if you'd like. I also made a nut and saddle from a bull's horn (man is he mad) but it sounds incredible. I learned you could put it in a small vice and heat it and it will straighten it out. I can supply a nut and saddle blank if needed all I need is the size. I also made a slide from it and it polishes like jewelery. Good Post.

[QUOTE=TBone62]I also made a nut and saddle from a bull's horn (man is he mad) but it sounds incredible. I learned you could put it in a small vice and heat it and it will straighten it out. I can supply a nut and saddle blank if needed all I need is the size. I also made a slide from it and it polishes like jewelery. Good Post.[/QUOTE]

Cool, bull nuts on your guitar.

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I also enjoy my Epiphone MB250 banjo, My 62? teisco with dual horeshoe pickups, I had to make a 9.5 radiused bridge to match the pickups and I added a nut between the zero fret and original nut to raise the action. I used T-60 aluminum and changed the cap to a .02 mf and if wasn't for my disability (to play like Ry Cooder) I would sound exactly like him. I also have a swamp ash tele with a B Bender that I made completey including the handwound pickups. I didn't make the neck, it's on my website. I have 3 other lap steels the rarest is a 62 teisco long scale, I think an EB-4U? in pretty much mint condition. I have other numerous instruments. Sorry but you asked.

I've got an old Takamine that I really like and a 72' guild but I like playing my kits better.Also play my 80's Strat thru a Fender Twin. Also got quite a few yardsale specials

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I've got a Garrison.. G-25 I think? Cedar/Birch Dread. Parents had it made specially for us (lil bro got one too) so we were able to pick a master grade top and a nice back/sides for them.

I personally can't play enough to say "I play guitar" but my new guitar teacher is really impressed with them. He has a few guitars in the 2k-4k range and he says he prefers ours. Not bad for a guitar that retails at like $300 or $400.

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I have an old 12 string Alvarez that I play when I want to make my fingers really sore,and a Peavy Patriot that I bought several years ago.

Mostly I have always played a Dobro until I started building my own. Now I have to say I play a resonator guitar.

I have a home made fiddle that I scrub around on and tease a mandolin a little bit.

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D.L.,do you tune your reso like the e-chord or just traditional tuning for bluegrass? I have a regal that i found in the snowbank last year and rebuilt it but don't really know how bluegrass players tune them.TIA

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I've got a lot of guitars stashed around the house (Martin, Takamine, Tacoma, Taylor, Alvarez Yari, Gibson) but the one I always grab is the 1964 Guild D-40. The finished is crazed to the max but tuned to open D the sound makes up for it.

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