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This guitar literally took me forever. I had the absolutely most patient customer in the history of customers (except for maybe Lance's )
He actually commissioned this from after I posted my first acoustic on this forum, which is kind of cool.

Anyway, it is a koa B&S, port orford top, ebony accents, and custom inlay. It is my take on an OM, with some slightly larger dimensions and more gently curving lines, but is pretty much very much an OM.

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Beautiful guitar Stephen! Is there any significance/story behind the fretboard inlay and sound port design?

Rick

Hey Stephen that really looks nice. Good job on the end graft miters. Is the fretboard supported by the top at the soundhole overhang? Got to ask this, Are you the one who wrote the program to CNC the fretboard inlay? I'm usually not real big on that stuff but yours really looks flowing and very cool. The new owner should be real happy.

Tim

That's a beauty, Stephen!

Thanks.

The fretboard swoop (which is the mirror of the headstock swoop) is supposed to overlap the soundhole. The buyer wanted a shorter scale that I designed the feature for, hence I could have snuck in an extra fret.

With the inlay, the buyer had the fretboard design in mind. We went back and forth a number of times, and ended up with what you see. He wanted a different soundport than my traditional, and he wanted a peg head inlay, so it followed that we could keep the same themes and use the 12th fret configuration.

I did the inlay by hand first, and scrapped a fretboard and a great deal of work. The I used the CNC to do what you see, and I crack pearl strips into the grooves. It was a very easy program to run once the Solidworks modeling was done for the fretboard.

Stephen

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yummy!

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Dave
Milton, ON

Really nice!

Beautiful guitar

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Gene

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason- Mark Twain

Excellente'!

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Bill Hodge


One does not simply, own enough guitars!

Excellent work! Love the curves! Much more pleasing to the eye than a typical OM in my opinion.

Very nice, Stephen.
How did you color the top?

Steve

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That is really stylish. One of the niecest I've seen in a long time.
Guitars like that drive my ambition to be a good luthier, thanks.

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We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at guitars.

Great looking guitar! I really like the "improvements" you made to the basic OM shape.
Lovely work!

Very Nice Looking Guitar! Your design looks great as well!

Verrrrrry nice!

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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.

WOW!!!

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James W Bolan
Nashville Tennessee

Sweet!

Nice shape. Nice looking guitar. What finish and would love to hear more about the P.O. cedar. Did you take it as thin as you would spruce, brace it any differently, your impressions etc.
L.

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Cut to size.....Beat to fit.....Paint to match.

Very Nice!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Super nice guitar. I love the truss rod access hole. I hope you're leaving it that way, instead of installing a cover.

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