Many of you may remember that just over a year ago, I ran part of my hand through my re-saw. Well, one of our members, Bill Bergman, Sent me this little gift:
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The book it self is an opportunity to get my hand back in shape but what was most incredible was the four full pages of type written advise that prefaced the book and the numerous photocopied pages with alternate fingerings and more advice inserted throughout the book! Hours of work went into this and I really just wanted Bill to know how much I appreciated that tremendously kind jesture! Bill, thanks again!!!
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What makes this most timely is another unrelated event. John Greven has been getting top wood from me for about 3 years now. He has continously told me how much he likes the results of the guitars he builds with this wood and how I need to hear some of the finished guitars. We talked about him sending one of his "travelling" guitars that I could hear and see and one thing lead to the next which lead to this:
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(sorry for the poor pics..)
We made arrangements for him to just put one of his great guitars together for me. All of the wood on this guitar, except the bindings and the bracewood (he likes dense adi bracewood), was supplied by me to showcase some of the wood I have. This guitar is his L-00v Custom model and is a DREAM to play (I just recieved it last night). It is loud and clear but is very new and needs to be played in. It weighs a mere 3.8 pounds including the K and K pickups installed. It is setup light and low for fingerpicking but I have used a pick with it as well and has no problem at all with that. It already sounds much better than my Alverez 6 string and I know it is going to really open up once it has a few miles on it. I will be working through Bill's instruction over the next few months and am really looking forward to it.
Just to make the guitar a little more of tradeshow instrument I asked Bob Garrish to produce this for the heel cap:
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Bob does really great work as well!
So, thanks again to Bill, John and Bob. I now have something that shows the visual and acoustic potential of my products, will allow me to work through the fingerpicking tutorial that Bill put together and will generally just make me a "HAPPY GUY"!!
Just thought I would share this with the rest of you!
Shane
!! Thanks for all of the kind words....