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Hi All,

It's a bit overdue, but the voting poll is open for the next 14 days in the official 2014 Local Woods Challenge Build. Three contestants finished guitars constructed from "local" sources. We decided to give the contestants latitude to determine exactly what was "local." I believe each has documented their wood sources for your consideration. These challenges are quite beneficial to the builders, and take a great amount of time, so please reward them for their investment, and go vote! I'm attempting to get the three finisher's threads pinned to the top, but until then, they are Joe Sallis, Theo Delaca, and Matt Bouchie. The link to the voting poll is here:

viewtopic.php?f=10138&t=45055

Thank you all for your time and consideration of the contestant's builds.

Jay Swann

Thanks for the heads up, I'll look through them as soon as I get a chance and make my vote. I'd like to echo your sentiments above. I participated in one of the challenges here a couple years ago and it was a great experience. A lot of work goes into setting up a challenge and documenting the process along the way. That work deserves our time to look through them and vote!

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

I was wondering what became of that latest challenge. I'll check it out too.

Congratulations to the folks who finished

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Thanks to the 19 folks who have gone to the 2014 Local Woods Challenge to cast their votes so far. If you haven't, please go vote!

--Jaybird

All the people that hang out here and only 27 votes. There's only 3 entrees. Take a couple minutes and have a look and vote.

34 votes cast? I think we can do better than that!

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

Don't you think that Theo, Matt and Joe deserve a bit more respect for their' builds than the 35 votes that have been cast so far? I think this forum is more supportive than that.

Alex

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"Indecision is the key to flexibility" .... Bumper sticker

Nicely done, fellas!

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George :-)

And we have a winner! Congratulations to Matt Bouchie who won the challenge by a narrow margin. Thanks to all three builders who finished, and to all who considered building an instrument for the challenge.

Which builder do you feel deserves to win the 2014 Local Woods Build Challenge
Poll ended at Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:22 pm
Matt Bouchie 44% 44% [ 20 ] x
Joe Sallis 40% 40% [ 18 ]
Theo Delaca 16% 16% [ 7 ]

Well done all three of you and good job Jaybird for your hard work as well!

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Bryan Bear PMoMC

Take care of your feet, and your feet will take care of you.

I didn't see this thread until now. I usually save the Guitar Building Forum to read every other weekend when I do an overnight shift. Gives me something to read to stay awake all night.

Thanks to all the voters and to Jay for administering the build. It sure was a fun build and it sure was fun seeing my guitar played on stage, too. Thanks to Theo and Joe for building guitars that easily could have won this competition, as well. I wouldn't have been surprised at all to have finished in third place!

Matt