Thanks again for the very kind words - I just checked out yours Serge and you have nothing to be afraid of - You have done a great and wonderful job, and I know that feeling as I gave away a few gutiars early on to very close friends - nothing like the expression on their faces when they realize whats going on. Cheers.
For those who have never played one, a multiscale with slight fret scale differencews, like the ones I mainly build - 1 inch diff - feel extremely natural to play. When your hand is out near the nut, hold a C chord shape - notice how your fingers tend to bunch up a bit as your wrist twists, and chords like a G7 require a little stretch - the slant on the frets makes the stretch here a bit less - now move your hand up the neck, to say 8-9 - your hand here is relaxed and square to the neck, so are the frets. Then as you move higher up the board, your fingers naturally spread out as you wrist twists the opposite way. Don Alder has one of my multis - he came to my house a year and a half ago, played my Dragonfly guitar for almost twenty minutes before realizing it was a multi - its that natural. You can here him play his on MP3 on my site.
AZ - thats a huge killer piece of white MOP, from Exotic. Expensive piece, but I had to have it for this project. Pictures dont really show how the action and depth of the shell unfortunately, but the ebony plate with the oil finish stays in the background as the inlay shimmers. Looks pretty good.
The inlay of the logo on the rear came in part from something a customer said a couple years back, like maybe we will do something on the rear headstock, special, just for him the player to see. It kinda stuck as an intersting idea, and when I got the idea for this one (it struck me while driving to a friends wedding onthe 401 - a truck I passed had a huge lighthouse on the side, dont ask me what the company was !!! and I always had this idea of sails on the fretbaord, I put the two together and here it is). SO whne it came time to think about the logo, even though its in black MOP and only shimmers in certain light, I though to leave the face with just the image, no logo. I saw Bensusans Ryan up close last year at the fingerstyle festival, and the R logo on his is black MOP, and its very low key, ony really seen in certain light, otherwise you think its not even there. Neat idea.
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Your lighthouse and sailboat are very nice! .Love the armrest too! Just an incredible guitar all-round ! 
