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Christian Schmid

Post subject: Yay - Camatillo zoot pic

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:29 pm

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Can't resist blatantly showing off my latest zoot score... A no-sapwood, straight grain, dread sized set of Camatillo rosewood (that, as legend has it, was set aside by Chris at LMI when they got their first shipment of Camatillo). No I just have to learn how to build a guitar worthy of that set...

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Hesh

Post subject: Re: Yay - Camatillo zoot pic

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:31 pm

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Very nice Christian - I am sure you will make it sing when you build a guitar out of it! [:Y:]

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NWflyonly

Post subject: Re: Yay - Camatillo zoot pic

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:33 pm

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Okay can somebody tell this newbie where "Zoot" came from or why it's slang for wood?

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JJ Donohue

Post subject: Re: Yay - Camatillo zoot pic

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:59 pm

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NWflyonly wrote:

Okay can somebody tell this newbie where "Zoot" came from or why it's slang for wood?

Back in the early days of the OLF (circa 2004) when there were just a handful of us, Bob Cefalu (RC Tonewoods) would regularly entice us with some of the prettiest, highly-figured back and side sets. At the time, I believe it was one of the Kinnaird Brothers who referred to the figure as "Zoot"...presumably because of the bling and pomp of the Zoot Suits that the K-Bros often wore in their shops

. Well, it wasn't long after that Bob was forever referred to as "The Zootman" and has continued to live up to his reputation to this day.

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NWflyonly

Post subject: Re: Yay - Camatillo zoot pic

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:17 pm

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Thanks for the info, I was sure I was missing some tech term. I assume that Bob is the Zootman on eBay?

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JJ Donohue

Post subject: Re: Yay - Camatillo zoot pic

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 2:21 am

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NWflyonly wrote:

Thanks for the info, I was sure I was missing some tech term. I assume that Bob is the Zootman on eBay?

There's only one Zootman!

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