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Finished this Dready this week which we are delivering to the customer in Tasmania this weekend.

There's an ulterior motive to our personal delivery strategy. Dave and I are taking the ferry across tonight and hope to fill the back of his ute (pickup truck in American-speak) with some Tassie timbers.

Thanks for looking

Bob

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Bob Connor
Geelong, Australia

Wow!!!!!!!!!!

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Steve Walden
Aspiring Builder,
Bartlesville, OK

Great Lookin' Dready Bob ! Wild bearclaw!

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Anderson Guitars
Clearwater,Fl. 33755

beautiful guitar Bob!

great attention to the details.

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Reguards,

Ken H

Bob, that's up to your usual high standards.
Love that bearclaw...shazam!

Say, is that Cheesewood used for the bindings? (I'm trying to get a handle on Ausie woods.) It's a nice match for the mahog.

Steve

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Nice lookin but whats it sound like m8?

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Thanks for the kind comments everyone.

Steve - it was supposed to be Cheesewood but we routed the binding ledge a little too deep and had to put Maple on it.

Frei - it's sounds like a dreadnought.

Seriously, I have a D-18 here that I bought new back in 1980 and another Dread that I finished a couple of weeks ago out of Native Olive/Red Spruce.

Firstly it has that typically dry sound that you would expect from a Mahogany/Sitka combination. It has more bottom end than the Martin and is particularly "growly" around the D and G string which is what I want to hear in our dreadies. ie it has more mid range punch than the Martin. Trebles are crisp and clear, bitey without being too fat. And it is louder than the D-18. So I'm at peace with the elements.

It is quite different than the Native Olive Dread. The Native Olive is very dense and has more of the deep reverby bottom end and metallic tops you'd expect from the rosewood family. And the Olive one is louder again and having the Red Spruce top you can really wail into it without overdriving it.

The bloke I'm staying with in Tassie over the weekend has a nice D-28 so we'll have a chance to stack it up against that one too.

Cheers

Bob

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Bob Connor
Geelong, Australia

SOUNDCLIPPPPPPP!!!!

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That is so nice Bob!

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Sorry Frei but it only got strings on it on Wednesday, setup yesterday and I'm just about to leave home to get the ferry across to Tasmania to deliver it.

Apologies, but too tight a schedule for recording this time.

Besides - theres a mountain of Tiger Myrtle over there waiting for me to roll in it.

Bob

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Bob Connor
Geelong, Australia

That's just beautiful! And the bearclaw top is awesome to see! I love the rosette as well.

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Mike

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That's just beautiful! And the bearclaw top is awesome to see!

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Mike

The only thing nescessary for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing.

A mountain of Tiger Myrtle? Tell us more.

Vince

Crazy Ritz.

Awful perty

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Stunning....

A mountain of Tiger Myrtle you say? Hey....remember your ol' friend Don....

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