davismanLV
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It really looks like Adirondack, doesn't it??
What acoustic are you playing today?
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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.
GGJaguar
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Nice! You don't see many 12ers with a red spruce top. Very cool!
Brucebubs
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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.
I'm sure you've heard it before ...a year later I started missing a 12-string.
It's taken me longer to get comfortable with playing one again than I expected .. but I'm enjoying it.
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Youse guys are killing me...sprained my left wrist...bad...a week ago, and am sitting here wearing a splint and enjoying Voltaren gel fumes, can't even think about picking up a guitar. Starting OT, which is to include guitar/mandolin, next Wednesday 
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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
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."
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."
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Jared macneill
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The guild d-40 ! I haven’t really thought of the Taylor since it came
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...
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.
Jared macneill
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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.I never really thought I’d like a spruce/mahogany But it’s actually really warm sounds and if they weren’t so expensive I’d love to try a d-50.
I did notice some finish cracks on it and I find of freaked but I didn’t see any cracks under the top and when you shine the light on it you see the spruce top. I’m assuming it’s from the neck settling in , I had a few older guitars like that .
WaltW
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My friend, that I just made contact with again after 30 years, is a Martin guy through and through. He has owned one guitar since 1968, a Martin D-12-35. When we met up I loaned him my Martin D-42 and has been in 7th heaven. Just this past weekend we met up agaion and I brought my DV-52 and G312. He played both of them and commented how easily they played and how great they sounded. He seemed to be impressed but wouldn't actually say it out loud but he played the two guilds for the duration of my visit and did not touch either martin.
There might be a convert in the works
There might be a convert in the works
Hey, you can surely love both. I do. I just never had the kind of cash you need to have a collection of great Martins.
davenumber2
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J-45 again. Not a new vid but this is how it sounds:
RBSinTo
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Had to do a lot of early morning schlepping, taking out the recycling, yard waste bags, and bundles of tree-branches, as well as loading the summer tires into the car for changeover tomorrow.
The result is a very, very sore left shoulder, a just very sore right shoulder, and an as sore as usual back, so the Guitar de Jour will, of necessity be the Washburn parlour.
The only piece I'd be able to play on any of the other bigger or heavier bodies would be "The Minute Waltz" or perhaps "Her Majesty". Nothing longer.
RBSinTo
The result is a very, very sore left shoulder, a just very sore right shoulder, and an as sore as usual back, so the Guitar de Jour will, of necessity be the Washburn parlour.
The only piece I'd be able to play on any of the other bigger or heavier bodies would be "The Minute Waltz" or perhaps "Her Majesty". Nothing longer.
RBSinTo
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Thank you! The photos don't do it justice
Last night spent time with the F-40 Valencia and my ever present guitar buddy DukeyBoy.
Tonight my Tacoma DM-10 and DM8C.
Always a great way to end the day.
Tonight my Tacoma DM-10 and DM8C.
Always a great way to end the day.
Cougar
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That's an amazing top!
Cougar
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F412. Amazing guitar!