Was communicating here with Brad Goodman who was kind enough to turn me onto a great set of BRW back in the day around 2006ish. This wood was and is a bit on the flat sawn side so I used mine for my personal guitar that incorporates everything I learned to date.... in 2007.
So it occurred to me this Am knowing as I do that Brad built with this same wood this thread IS DEDICATED TO SEEING PICS OF AS MANY GUITARS AS WE CAN THAT WERE BUILT WITH THE SAME WOOD AND ARE RELATED IN THAT SENSE.
Brothers/sisters from another mother so to speak and let's keep Frank Zappa out of it, for now.
So the first one pictured is my personal OM. It's dipped in BRW with the fretboard, head plate, bridge pins, bridge, rosette, binding and sides and back all BRW. The bridge plate is BRW too.
The top is what was then, when it was hard to get master grade Adi and all bracing on all of my Heshtones was always only Adi.
This is the guitar that I built that I promptly put in a nice case and stored for five years before playing it letting it open up just from aging and I think that indeed did happen. Another subject though...
So Brad has a nonidentical cousin to this one, let's see it Brad.
Guitar two with the curly Redwood top was the first guitar built with these tops after Uncle Bob aka Zootman aka The Zootman aka my friend got in this great Redwood and offered it. I was fast back then and could build a guitar in two weeks and I had this one finished before anyone else finished one with these tops. Bob said he sold over 50 of these tops within a few days of me posting pics of this guitar here on the OLF.
There was also controversy with some people going to the mat that this level of runout was nuts and that this will never hold up. 17 years later....it's holding up fine:). This specific guitar was played for a three song set in Ann Arbor to 30,000 people by one of the most famous musicians of our time. I got in an argument with him when he wanted to sign it and I didn't want him to sign it I like it fine the way it is. He was offended that my love of him and his music was not proportionate to his ego or Sharpie.
So we know there are many of these curly Redwood tops out there and now on guitars too. After this first batch Bob and others started offering this wood as often as they could get it. Peter of Cornerstone used to double top these Redwood tops IIRC too.
This one is still doing fine 17 years later and the bridge is still firmly on.
Oh, before I go the BRW OM is doing fine too but I want to raise the saddle. I've become a better player recently with some advanced lessons from a superb teacher/player/session musician and I now like higher action so new saddle time. But beyond that both guitars are doing great, no visible neck angle deterioration yet either.
So let's see instruments that you made that others here made instruments too out of the same wood? Brothers from another mother so to speak
