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I figure around 400 instruments is enough groundwork to treat myself to something a little fun. And if it happens to be very utilitarian to my shop needs, so much the better! I don’t usually name my guitars, but I dub this one ‘The Electrician’, ‘cause that’s what it’s paying for, lol.

Still a fairly modest instrument overall, in keeping with the brand, but it was fun to really come to grips with why it’s called Brazilian Crackwood…

That's beautiful

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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.

A great example of less is more Ed.

That’s terrific!


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That is gorgeous. Coincidentally I’m just building my first, and probably only, Brazilian guitar.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

I'm not lucky enough to have Brazilian but do have some cocobolo sets I've recently resawn that I'm excited about.

Seems to be some Braz going around…

Beautiful Ed very nicely done.

Have you ever tried Howard Feed-n-wax? If this were my guitar or brought to me by a customer I would condition that fret board and bridge with Howards. It looks dry from here and it also looks like the slight darkening would look great on this one. Your climate likes Howard's too since you have winters.

I built my BRW personal guitar as number 15 and it's still doing great. You waited pretty long there for your's

Nice simple look. It looks like wood, and wood is the star.
The thought of winter never crossed my mind with those photos. It won't look like that here for a couple months.
Do the bushes stay green all year?

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Why be normal?

We have winter here. A few weeks ago we were in single digit RH, but the laurels don”t care. You can have single digit RGH and sewage flowing through the workshop but the laurels just grow and grow…

I'm making a few assumptions: the bridge, fb and headplate are brw...

taking that into account, I rather prefer the supposed dry look, especially as to how the fb coloring flows into the headplate that has a flat sheen. in addition, said "dry" look goes well with the basic level of design of the instrument (which btw is very nice, and I really dig the way you did the grain on the center wedge)

That looks like a wonderful guitar!

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It’s so impressive, Ed. I love it’s simplicity.


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Thanks folks! appreciate it…:)