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...I'd like my guitars to look like this.

I took these pics last week when this 1930 Martin came through my shop again. I bought this a couple of years ago as an ebay wreck, it had been in a flooded basement, so half of the guitars gluejoints were separated... even half the bridge!! So i had quite some work to do to get it back together. But the one thing you can say about it, is that someone, sometime, LOVED this instrument! Its so well played that the top is almost worn through at the fingerboard, an worn all the way down to the kerfed lining at the edge... This instrument now belongs to somebody who loves it as well, he a touring musician and brings it everywhere. Its nice to see it back to life in the hands of someone who loves it.

Next to it hangs a prototype I bult last year, its a size 5 in hog and sitka. I wonder what it will look like 78 years from now??

I'll be .
My F5C's will sound like Loars...
Hopefully, some folks will still be playing my instruments and wondering what it was like to build them. I hope they will be enjoying them.

Great story, Lars. Very cool.

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What is the sound comparison between the two?

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