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This is a relatively quickly built guitar that I made for a niece. Standard x brace, no pruflings a small bit of bling.

Top is Lutz Spruce, has a bit of run-out thus slightly two toned.
A nice Cocobolo back and side set. The wood was dense so I braced it as a non-active back.
The binding are maple, the rosette, end wedge and heel cap is spalted maple.
The head stock veneer is Amboyna burl
My logo is MOP and ebony

Here is a video of me trying to play it

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Sweet! I like that. Nice touches with the spalted maple and headplate burl.
Got me a set of Coco somewhere, nothing spectacular but straight grained, quartersawn and dense IIRC.
Got to use that sometime.

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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.

Lovely, 12 fret, pyramid bridges just look "right" on these. Very understated elegance, lucky niece

Very cool with nice details and sounds good too. Your niece is lucky indeed.

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Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Robert Hunter

Nice!

John! You know you are doing that blues box a disservice playing that on it. Kidding my friend. Great video. Great playing. Great to see you playing 'er.

Looks great, other than the untidy bridge pin height. ( Hey, I know you're not just fishing for compliments).

Beautiful job on the volute. How did you thin the headstock and cut is? Really need to take a shot at one. They are pretty.

Cheers!

Great job John.


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