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PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2017 2:32 pm 
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This guitar was really fun for me yesterday on the last day of the exhibit. Two very good players gave it a test run in the back room outside the main hall. One was a young woman who flat picks old time and blue grass (and plays old time banjo too). She played several tunes and it sounded really good and she liked it a lot. The second player was a fingerstyle blues player who uses a thumbpick and metal finger picks to play stuff like Blind Blake and Big Bill Broonzy. I was floored by how it sounded. Loud and clear with ringing highs and punchy alternating bass lines. Other people in the room stopped what they were doing to listen to him play it. Great stuff and it was so satisfying to hear a guitar I built sound like that.

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PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2017 2:53 pm 
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Really nice Jay!
It looks deep bodied. Is that just optical?



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It's 4" deep at the tail, so I would say it's optical. I came up with this parlor design for the 2016 builders challenge. I did research to see what range of dimensions could be considered to define a "parlor-size" guitar and found dimensions for 11 different guitars that were called parlor guitars. The depths of those ones range from 3.5" to 4.5", but most of them were right around 4".

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