This is the fourth guitar I built.
I wasn't watching the spec sheet close enough and I made the neck 1 3/4 instead of 1 7/8. After about a year my friend mentioned
that while he liked the sound, he couldn't play it very long because the small neck hurt his hand.
So what else could I do? I asked for it back and made him a new neck.
The old neck was mahogany/maple/walnut with a rosewood fingerboard. The new one is walnut and maple with an ebony fingerboard.
There is subtle tonal difference. I think it is more dark, with perhaps a bit more sustain. This is my first walnut neck, in fact it is my first neck in anything but mahogany.
The guitar is cedar on walnut. I love the walnut on this guitar, while many of you probably saw it about a year ago, I thought since I had the pictures,
some of you might enjoy seeing it with the new neck.
Walnut headplate with spalted maple S.
I'm not sure what to call it when you do this - (Making Plywood?
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Steve approached me a while back about building this guitar and I jumped at the opportunity. It is a lovely instrument and it actually was one of the catalysts that began my interest in building guitars too. I can attest to the tone as being very warm and rich for such a little box. It is a joy to play and as someone else mentioned, it is not muddy in the least. Nice and articulate. Steve did a great job with every detail of the guitar and went above and beyond in constructing a new neck for it. It is due home on friday and I can't wait to be reunited with it. I can only hope to build half as good as Steve if and when I ever get to a guitar number four.
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