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CWLiu
PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:01 am 
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This guitar was made several months ago for my personal use. The top is from Martin at bestEuroSpruce. Martin is a very nice guy and the service is excellent. I choosed a set of 2nd grade EIR because the owner, I myself, won't care if the back and side are not dark enough. My german spruce are from Martin and Allied Lutherie, and their densities are higher than the avg. sitka I have. In short it is not sutible for a loud guitar but the beauty of sound has nothing to do with the volume, at least to me.

The sound clip played by me is Valseana by Sergio Assad. I like it a lot.
Aquarelle II - Valseana


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Dave Higham
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Impeccable as usual CW. But the link to the sound-clip doesn't seem to work.
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CWLiu
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Thanks for your comment, Dave. Maybe you can try to download the mp3 file first.
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Dave Ellingsworth
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Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing...

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Very nice CW, beautiful guitar!
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Setch
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Tasteful and sharp, like everything you do.

The tiny 'dab' of sapwood at the heel button is inspired.
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Alexandru Marian
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Good example of how inexpensive wood can make both a nice sounding and looking guitar. She sounds great and you have some serious playing skills there.
Would you share on the bracing? The size seems to be medium. The narrow bridge is cool too.

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Very nice indeed CW - you did a great job!!!! [:Y:] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap]
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Nice, as usual. I'm still amazed at your productivity!

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CW, great looking instrument. It also sounds great. Nice playing too! [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap]

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CWLiu
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Thank you all for the kind words. Playing is usually more interesting than making, because I'm probably one of the minority who appreciate the guitars I made.

Alexandru Marian wrote:
Would you share on the bracing? The size seems to be medium. The narrow bridge is cool too.


I only have the bracing picture of the previous guitar, which is very similiar.


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Understated beauty. Cheers.

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Beautiful work. I like the narrow bridge too.What are the bridge dimensions?

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Just gorgeous...very impressive guitar.

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CWLiu
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jfrench wrote:
Beautiful work. I like the narrow bridge too.What are the bridge dimensions?

Joshua, it's 26 x 174 mm IIRC. HRW is pretty dense, tho.

Again thanks all for the comments.
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great looking guitar. love it. im in to the sapwood also and in my opinion the 2nd grade EIR is tops.

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