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Having finished only five, my favorite so far is a Grand Auditorium Cocobolo with an Adirondack top. The ebony fingerboard was done with a simple D45 inlay in MOP. It also was one of my first nitrocellulose lacquer guitars. I loved the way it looked when buffed out. With the cutaway, it looked cool too. Here is a pic of my wife, Kay, throwing down a few licks. Upload or link a picture of your favorite guitar that you made, this might be fun. BD

My favorite is the last one I built. Then, when I complete the next one, it becomes my favorite. and so on, and so on.....

Like Mario the last one done and then next one (well with one exception and that is the murphys law one) I have to keep one of these things someday. Once I learn a song or 2, then that will be my favorite

This Adi/Sapele dred has been my favorite so far. And I HATE Dreds. The thing is an absolute cannon. It's got an interestig story too (well, interesting to me anyway).
When it was first commissioned, I ordered the wood when the client gave me the "check is in the mail" schpeel. I didn't hear from him for awhile and never got my messages answered. So I had this lumber sitting on my shelf and decided to go ahead with it with hopes that he would come through. (It was on of my very early commissions). Got the thing built and I loved it. Still never heard from him so I assumed him to be a flake and decided to keep it for myself. THE day I made that decision there was a guy in my shop and he played it and loved it. I almost said that it wasn't for sale but I kept my mouth shut. So he wanted to buy it. He was to get a bonus check in a month or so, so I held it for him. That month came and went and when I contacted him he had already spent the money on a broken down car. But if I could hold it for a few more months, he could buy it then. (I was starting to wise up by this point) So I said, "call me when you have cash in hand and if I still have it I'll sell it to you". Never heard from him again. So now I've got MY guitar again. Until I went on a trip to IA to where I grew up. I brought it with me to show my old guitar teacher. When we had our meeting, he fell in love with it right away as did another guy he had in the studio. They were basically bidding against each other for the darn thing. I sold it to my teacher and got a commission from the other guy to build another one. Still wish I had that back in my hands. Then just a couple of weeks ago, the second guy called me and wanted to buy the guitar again. I told him that I'd be happy to build him one but will require money down before I can start. (haven't heard back yet, I'm not holding my breath)
Crazy world we live in. PWoolson Soundcraft "D"

I enjoyed that tremendously, thanks for taking time to share that. And, it's a model you don't necessarily like, a dread. I know one thing, dreads have a major place in the world of steel string guitars. I like the use of the word Cannon too, I've heard that on one of my earliest efforts, an Adi top EIR sides and back.

Bruce, how did you post the pic of your wife? I can't figure out the buttons on the top here. Paul

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I really wanted to ignore that, but you had one of those magic *buzzwords* in there..... koa.

You know what I mean?

Let's see it!
            

Paul,

Great story! I'm glad you finally sold it and then got another commission from it too. Perhaps you will build another one for yourself sometime. I'm kickin' myself right now for promissing a guitar to someone, and now that it's strung up I'm wanting to keep it.
Originally, I was building it on spec, but then I blew out part of the side while cutting the binding ledges. I patched the sides and decided to keep it for myself. You see, it was some killer Black Acacia, and I just couldn't let it go to waste. Then in a conversation with a friend, I offered it to him for a real cheap price. I was happy to let it go home with someone I knew, and recover my cost plus a tiny amount of my labor. But now that it's strung up......dang it's the best sounding guitar I've made on the first day of stringing it up. D'Oh !Don W38369.6162615741

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Here is two of the favorites I've made.

Great looking guitars Colby!!

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colby that is one beautiful guitar. you should be proud of it.

Ok, I'm going to try this posting thing again. Keep your fingers crossed.



Pwoolson38369.695787037

Hey, it worked. Sort of. Anyone else see it off to the right side of the screen? Maybe it's a mac thing. P

http://www.cswnet.com/~bdickey/kk.jpg Paul, I explained it above. Here is the barebones address for that picture of my wife playing my favorite build guitar. So to make it function as part of the webpage some additional HTML language has to be added, like this:

IMG] filename.jpg goes here plus it's address on the web [/IMG I left off the open bracket, and the close bracket so you can see it above. This is done automatically when you enter the address in the little window. I just find it on the actual page right click and copy into the computer memory, then when selecting the tree above, no arrow, I paste it into the window.

Now here it is all posted correctly, but without the open and close brackets:

IMG]http://www.cswnet.com/~bdickey/kk.jpg[/IMG

You can just type it in like this , but since I put no address in there to upload the image there is nothing there. Pretty cool, but confusing sometimes. It's a computer.

I find that you need to supply line breaks next to pictures in order to get them to stay on the left. Or at least between pictures and any text. You can go back in to your post using the edit mode and give a carriage return around the pic file.John How38369.6334490741

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They are on the blue post window with the emoticons on the lert. The tree, it's the tree. Without the arrow. I see you figured it out, congrats. bd

Nice Bubinga Colby, I like your work.

John, the carriage return works great. Thanks for the tip. paul

My Cedar topped Rosewood E2 (formerly LK-Sj. I just love everything about it. Its by far the best sounding guitar I have ever built. But like Mario said, my next will probably take its place as my fav.

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Is that photo at the River Folk Festival? Do you think you generated any sales/interest at the festival?

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John,
Yes thats from the RFF.
No direct sales, however I'm building a dreadnought (the one Michael Payne illustrated for me) for a fella that heard about me from a friend that attended the festival.
As for interest, lots! But that interest is yet to turn into a sale.

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Every time I build a new one it will be my favourite. I really like the first dreadnought I built as the tone and loudness are just great. I hope they just keep improving with each and every guitar I make. I don't want to start at the top and work my way down. I am very thrilled to see so many great looking and presumably sounding instruments through this forum! Wow. An inspiration for me to strive to make a better guitar each time.

My favorite looking is a Koa toped Mahogany back and side dreadnought. I don't have pics because I did not have digital camera back then. My favorite sounding guitar is my personal OM14 Curly Koa top Indian Rosewood back and sides Curly Maple binding all decked out in paua inlay and top purfling. I play finger style and have always wanted a guitar that the mid tones were as distinct as the highs and lows. I have found that Koa seems to meet this requirment better than most Spruce.

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Only badly."

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