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Here's a few I recently finished...









The 12's are one each Honduras and BRW. The BRW has a 25.34" scale, medium strings, and tuned to C#. The Honduras a 26.22" scale, .070-.015" cables and tuned to a B. The long scale Honduras is easily my favorite.








Anyone ever see anything like this birdseye (?) in mahogany?







Thanks for lookin'!

Gorgeous Haans...soooo rich!

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Dave
Milton, ON

So when are you shipping all 3 to me? I love smaller bodied 12 strings (as compared to dread/SJ/Jumbos) they look very classy and are very comfortable. Beautiful work indeed.

Very nice and classy work, Haans.

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Laurent Brondel
West Paris, Maine - USA
http://www.laurentbrondel.com/

Well done! I'm inspired... and you have a nice interior design aesthetic as well.

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George :-)

Fantastic!

And the top in the second picture... stunning! I love that look.

Excellent photography skills too!
Got any tips?

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Jim Hansen

Haans, you are the man. Superb looking guitars, all of them.

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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.

Haans,

They are lovely! They have a wonderful vintage look about them. And I agree, the photography is excellent!

Cheers
Rick

Thanks folks!
As far as photo tips, some of the important stuff is to use RAW, natural light, do a custom white balance if your camera has it, and use a tripod. If your lenses are fast enough you can hand hold as I did on these, but I bumped up the ISO to 400, dropped the lens to 5.6 from f8 or 11. Good enough for the web.

Haans,

They are all really nice. I love the "old time" look.

What are the bindings?

Are they all ladder braced?

Nitro?

Brad

Beautiful work as always Haans. The pics are pretty cool too!

You have a way with building those timeless classics. I really like the body shape on all of them. The hint of green in the back strip is a nice touch. So this is retirement? How many at a time did you put out when you were working? What is the top purfling?

Cheers,
Danny

Staggering, Haans! Immaculate work!

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Truly beautiful Haans. !! .

Lars.

Thanks again folks!
Brad, the binding is ivoroid with b/w/coco/b/w purflings. I'm replacing that with the new "dot and dash" Larson purfling. The 6 string is Larson X bracing and the 12's are a hybrid ladder/tone bar. The finishes are Nitro and I do the finishing.
Danny, I've only been building guitars for about a year after a 37 year hiatus. As far as mandolins, I used to build about 6-8 a year, but I can't do that anymore as I have pretty bad neck arthritis that is directly attributable to carving tops and backs. I figure that once I get completely set for guitars, I'll be able to make somewhere around 5-10/year, depending on how I feel about being "retired", and the financials involved.
Lars, if I had a last name like yours, I would certainly start copying Stahls!