davismanLV
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It really looks like Adirondack, doesn't it??Does that have a red spruce top?
It really looks like Adirondack, doesn't it??Does that have a red spruce top?
Does that have a red spruce top?
Yes, red spruce top, rosewood (or maybe cocobolo) headstock veneer, very cool tiger-stripe maple sides, and nice quilted (maple) back. Ebony fingerboard and bridge, MOP block inlays (and special G on 12th fret). Thalia TRC.Love that wood
Nice! You don't see many 12ers with a red spruce top. Very cool!Yes, red spruce top
I owned five 12-strings at one stage Morris B-50, Maton Country Jumbo, Taylor 355, Guild F-412 and a Martin Grand J12-40E Special ... but I wasn't playing them and decided to sell.Bruce, you cut that saddle to shape? Very nice job, from what I'm seeing. Your next project, since you obviously have the skills, is to do a 12-string compensation.
Glad you're enjoying your Eastman, and in no way is that sacrilege.
Also, did you have a Martin Grand J 12-string? Is that gone? It's not in your sig.
OUCH! Good luck, Bill!!!!Youse guys are killing me...sprained my left wrist...bad...a week ago, and am sitting here wearing a splint and enjoying Voltarin gel fumes, can't even think about picking up a guitar. Starting OT, which is to include guitar/mandolin, next Wednesday
Gosh, that's pretty, cgalardi!Tonight my time occupied with something a little unique. It's a Dowina "Tribute to Walnut" in a grand auditorium shape. These are handmade in Slovakia.
A real beauty. It sounds great. A few photos and spec sheet attached.
Tomorrow back to the F-40 Valencia
Below a nice note I received from the daughter of the company founder.
"Thank you very much for having Dowina and more over for having this very special model we created as a custom order exclusive for Richard’s Guitars.
We make just a very limited amount of these per year as finding a Walnut suitable for the top plate is quite difficult: )
You have all solid handmade instruments done entirely in our workshop in Bratislava.
I am attaching the guitar ‘s specification, and here is some other information.
We are a family company, rather a workshop than a factory, founded by my father Stanislav Petko Marinov.
He was a university professor of Static and Acoustic but right after the Iron Wall fall, he started to do what he liked the best – work with musical instruments.
He first started as a distributor of great guitars in Czechoslovakia and founded Dowina just after, in 2007.
We have always cared, from the early beginning, for the acoustic quality of materials.
That’s why we select all the wood personally, we travel to Spain, Italy, and Switzerland... to get the best tonewoods possible.
We get the wood on your guitars in Spain, there are very specialized tonewood stocks because of the flamenco guitar tradition, but the provenience of walnut is USA.
Not all the walnuts can be used for the top plate as you need lighter but resonant pieces.
The body shape is our Grand Auditorium Cutaway and the bracing pattern is adjusted X bracing.
The braces are Swiss Moon Spruce, and you can find the signature of my colleague who did the handvoicing and tap tuning of your top on the X brace.
There will be also the main frequency of the top plate written.
The fingerboard, bridge, and headplate is Ebony – from Cameroon, but we buy it aswel in Spain.
And the neck is Khaya Mahogany.
We recommend D’Addario XS 12 – 53 strings, but if you prefer lighter ones, you can put it there, I would let it stabilize for 1 day and check the neck.
Maybe a truss rod adjustment will be needed then."
Your hooked, Jared. Congrats, you're now on a journey. I had five or six Taylors in the house that I'd been collecting when I played my F-512 at the music store between 2006-2007... It took several months for me to realize I was in love and I had to look past what I felt was a silly, old aesthetic...The guild d-40 ! I haven’t really thought of the Taylor since it came
I am hooked , the neck is freaking amazing. It fits my hand perfectly! It’s like it was built for my little fingers and it is really lively and imho sounds better than a Martin d-18.Your hooked, Jared. Congrats, you're now on a journey. I had five or six Taylors in the house that I'd been collecting when I played my F-512 at the music store between 2006-2007... It took several months for me to realize I was in love and I had to look past what I felt was a silly, old aesthetic...
Anyway, long story short... only one Taylor remains, and it's a classic Prince-era Taylor unlike anything else in my collection. But, it's the only one that has stayed all these years.
Thank you! The photos don't do it justiceGosh, that's pretty, cgalardi!
That's an amazing top!The guild d-40 !