This is number 7, a fourteen fret OOO with a very large cutaway. I was feeling very proud of it, until I had a glance and the Forster post. Has the man no shame?
In any case, for all its flaws, this one plays like a dream. I actually got started on this addictive hobby because of a four-thousand dollar Martin I was playing in Guitar Center about five years back. It was only $3500 over my price limit, so I had a look and figured it couldn't be that hard to build a little wood box with a stick on one end. What can I say? When I'm wrong, I'm definitively wrong.
On the other hand, this one sounds better than the Martin did.
The specs:
* Adi top
* The rosette is rosewood offcuts from a previous guitar, and some plastic "turquoise" I got from LMII.
* Indian Rosewood body and bridge
* Peruvian walnut neck, with a bloodwood and white fiberboard center laminate
* Madigascar rosewood fingerboard
* Koa headplate
* EVO frets, mother of toilet seat markers.
* Bloodwood binding (I like the way it looks, but man that stuff is hard to bend on a pipe. It twists and spirals and breaks and generally acts like it doesn't want to be on a guitar.)
* The shell is zipflex. I know it's cheating, but my skills are still rudimentary.
* B-Band pickups. (The pickups are ok, but no better than K&K, which are cheaper, less intrusive, and don't require a bloody big hole carved out of the upper bout.)
--Paul
