Rick,I wasn't talking in "outside the box" as a maybe sounded, well Howard like, or what the "box" is as most guitars from outside look pretty much the same.
Not being a Rhodes Scholar and such, cain't do them there words and talkin to good on that computin machine.
I don't know Mike or even if established builder or hobby, but maybe wrongly so was thinking hobby or fairly new in the business. I was thinking of "out of box" or "expanding skills" as not using same made up plans, or copy of anothers in using skills to build something different in use of bracing stuff inside the box (body). I am sure many, many builders have made lots of guitars to do what he did. I was thinking he came up with a for lack of better term a "plan" for what he wanted to do for a specific player and made that plan work on his own. I may be completly wrong, and if so sorry. It was just way I read and interpeted the post.
Again looking at outside of guitars as far as shapes, woods etc. most look the same, even with bling, that others then copy and that becomes or has become the standard box. I am probably wrong and not such a thing as "thinking out of the box" just some ideas builder comes up with for specific players needs and make them work with bracing, thickness of ribs, back and sides and materials. The one off stuff.
Other than that everyone pretty much does the same thing everything is pretty much copies of everything else and no such thing as one of kind guitars (saying that not directed at any builders particular slogan) just those kind of terms in general.
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