A curious and somewhat fascinating luthier: Abe Wechter

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This guy has for a long time marched to a different beat. He built John Mclaughlin's "Shakti guitar" which had a scalloped fretboard and sympathetic strings across the sound hole. The "Shakti guitar" had a traditional soundhole located where you would expect to find it. I was just at his website and found this incarnation of that guitar. It's the one in the lower right with F-holes:

http://www.wechterguitars.com/photos/custom
 
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