Multiple sound holes !

[Nick]

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I was amused to see this guitar made by a guy who I admire not just as a luthier but all round good guy.

Yes they are real bug holes! god knows how he braced it?
And the details/explanation of it,

http://www.benedettoguitars.com/bb-ilteredo.php

I love when Bob tampers with the conceived idea of what tradition is. He made an archtop entirely of what is considered 'bad' tonewood by other makers (flat sawn maple back & sides & a bit of pine complete with knots in it,for the soundboard). By playing with the way he carved the top and back & the bracing altered accordingly, he commented that he doubted if anybody could to tell the difference between it and a 'proper' archtop in a blindfold test. He quite often uses it at his seminars as his demonstrator.

[DarwinStrings]

Now that is gorgeous and if I had a spare $52,500.00 then I would buy it.

Jim

[sebastiaan56]

Gives me a woody!

[Nick]

Now that is gorgeous and if I had a spare $52,500.00 then I would buy it.

Jim

Yeah Tain't cheap for something that the worms have had first dibs on! Gotta marvel at the guy for producing something most of us would throw away as crap wood.I'd love to hear what it sound's like

[kiwigeo]

Does the guitar come with the grubs that made the holes.....yum!!

[Nick]

Does the guitar come with the grubs that made the holes.....yum!!

Mmmmm barbied Hu Hu's

[pau]

Now that is gorgeous and if I had a spare $52,500.00 then I would buy it.

Jim

For a small fee I can save you a ton of cash. It's already sold.

Paul

P.S. not much of a first post I'm afraid.

[Allen]

This sort of wood is as common as fleas on a dog on the beaches were I grew up in British Columbia.

Toredo worms, (I think is actually a snail), and any wood that is left in the ocean for any length of time is infested by them. They also stink like nothing you've ever smelt before when they are fresh and go through the sawmill. Whenever we got wood like this at the mill I worked it was just chipped up for pulp.

Robert does a much more admirable job using it than the pulp and paper companies.

[Nick]

They also stink like nothing you've ever smelt before when they are fresh and go through the sawmill.

There's an image! Freshly cut Toredo
and

Robert does a much more admirable job using it than the pulp and paper companies.

Indeed he does, but don't suggest that to him! He'll make Paper Mache archtops next.......just to prove it can be done.