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Lutz Spruce top
Birdseye maple back and sides
Hard maple neck
Ebony fretboard head veneer and bridge
Stew Mac golden age tuners
Nitro finish





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Stunning Brad, love the wood choices. Got a side view?
What tuners have you used?

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The name catgut is confusing. There are two explanations for the mix up.

Catgut is an abbreviation of the word cattle gut. Gut strings are made from sheep or goat intestines, in the past even from horse, mule or donkey intestines.

Otherwise it could be from the word kitgut or kitstring. Kit meant fiddle, not kitten.

My kind of guitar, Brad. What scale, strings and tuning?

It looks good, man.

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That’s a beauty.


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Did you re-drill the tailpiece for the extra 6 strings? Way cool guitar.

Dave

They are them StewMac golden age tuners– love them!


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26-1/2” scale tuned down to B....

I make up my own sets of strings by buying individual ones. They go from .066 to .014


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No, that tailpiece is made by the National company.
They are the only ones who make a tailpiece like that as far as I know.
They’re expensive - $85


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Cool tailpiece. Glad someone is making them.

Dave

That is a cool guitar. Captures the vibe.

Ladder bracing? Ebony looks really black by today’s standard. Old stuff?

Hans Brentrup would approve.

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Love the back on that.

How’s it sound?!?

It's so fresh it still has the bone nut dust on the headstock

That's another beauty Brad.

Very nice,
Once the top gets some color the rosette will really pop. The old Stella 12 string I had, had edge purfling as wide as some rosettes. Yours has a whole different vibe.

Beautiful Brad. Could you get a sound clip?

Ed M

Very nice Brad. Is that big leaf? I like slot heads on a vee. When they are LONG too, they look even cooler.

I wondered about the tailpiece with the permanent bridge. I think I saw another lately like that. Does it make for a stronger, more reliable setup. Especially with monster strings? It would not have the pull right behind the bridge twisting it. So then the sound is basically just from the strings themselves? Is the tailpiece glued down?

Sorry, I don't know anything.

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Why be normal?

And I got that fretboard from LMI about five years ago it is very black actually.
The head veneers and bridge is older stock


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Good eye! Yeah I just wanted to get some quick shots I will dust it off and do some better ones for sure.


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Yes, Ed I plan on doing some myself even though I don’t consider myself a very good player what I do probably fits that type of guitar the best...


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It is hard maple with Birdseye figure.
The bridge is not glue down it floats just like an archtop guitar just the string tension holds it in place.
It does sound different then the pin bridge version but not a huge amount difference still has the same exact body size so the same size air chamber same string length strings all that .
So instead of the bridge pulling up it’s pushing down so it’s a whole different animal


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I keed, I keed! You are good with a camera too. And even when one is not good with a camera flaws tend to show up. That's a great looking guitar. It's truly good, man.

The top doesn't look flat in that lighting. Did you do some arching to it?

Yes, The top has a mild lateral arch-not a dome.