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Do you have a favorite? One that went to a customer and you thought, Man! That's it!
That's the one I would keep if I could!


How about it?

I will start. My last Redwood/Cocobolo OMFS fits my playing style (or lack there of) and ear better than any other guitar I have made to date. If I could keep one, that would be it!

Please include a picture if you have it!

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Here's mine.......

Well all two of the guitars I built I still play daily, but I'll tell you in three years' time when I have a few more.   

I wanted to ask Hesh this in a PM, because all of the ones along that back wall in his house look stunning, and I'm interested if he has any favourites in his guitar-harem.....

[QUOTE=Hesh] Here's mine.......
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TUT!!!

That would be King Tut!!!
Maybe Queen Tut!

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

For me...the GUITAR that got away was this redwood topped
Cocobolo OM

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Andy Z.
http://www.lazydogguitars.com

I tell you my favorite of Heshs, thats EASY!

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Shucks Lance thanks!!!

So you mean a guitar - this one didn't get away and I doubt if it ever will - it is clearly my favorite and I play it every day now.

I have one right now that I wish I could keep. It is the first one I have used some of Shane's Lutz on and BOY what a great sound!! I had to inlay the guy's initials in the fretboard, so this one has to go...

 

 

Better pictures will come later after I get rid of that nasty little CA spill that I have to buff out on it.

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Ken H

This one was very difficult to let go.

Tassie Myrtle and Engelmann OM.

The customer was stoked when we told him that neither Dave or myself wanted to part with it.

It now resides in Tasmania.

Bob

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Bob Connor
Geelong, Australia

It's really nice that I'm a luthier, and can make all these neat instruments that I love. The only problem is that I'm a typical poor luthier, and have to sell them all; otherwise I don't think I'd sell any of them.

Right now the one on my mind is the long-neck small Jumbo in mahogany/cedar that I just handed over to Ken Bonfield. It was designed to tune D-D in 'normal' tuning, and when I first put the strings on I said to myself: "I NEED one of these!". Ken later ammended that to 'EVERYONE needs one of these'. It doesn't have much 'bling'; no shell anywhere, but the way it played and sounded were almost exactly what I wanted.

I have to say the problem gets much worse when you make a lot of things you can't play as well as you'd like. Not only do I want to keep things like the Tenor violins and small harps and hammered dulcimers and 5-string fiddles, but I know if I did I'd have to practice hours every day to learn to play them really well, and then I'd be an even poorer luthier. As it is, the research stuff keeps me poor enough, and I can't even play that!

One of the things I like besty about this luthier business is that every couple weeks or month, I have a new guitar to play for a little while. Then somebody gets it and I've got another one on the way.
Now that's a cure for GAS!!! Or is that a sickness!!!

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Fun topic Lance.This is my favorite so I kept it so it would`nt get away.Although I`m pretty sure I`d trade it for the one Hesh let get away.
                          James

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James W Bolan
Nashville Tennessee

Thanks guys for the great photos.

Maybe someday I'll get on the big screen!!!!

walter

I sold this one last May and last month was unsuccessful trying to buy it back Guess I'll just have to finish the one currently on my bench.

Well this is very interesting. I always wondered how people with a love for the instrument could let them go to a new home, but I suppose that is the profession.

I am still building #1, so of course I cannot comment, but so far I can say, that if this is the worst one I ever build, I will be happy.

So like John How elluded, maybe the trick is to take comfort in knowing the next could be even better?



(and maybe keep those "milestone" guitars too...)

I should have kept this one!

Oups...  sorry about the size...  Still on the learning curve!

Wow! beautiful work guys. I have to say..........Hesh, you must have cried the day someone pried that out of your hands ----Snick

Wow, that would be a tough one but the first that comes to mind is an all Madagascar rosewood electric that I finished in spring '07. This particular piece of wood produced a ringing rosewood chambered solidbody that was easily as light as mahogany with the crystalline qualities of Madagascar. The range of tone is incredible on this guitar. Harmonics just jump right out. My first thought when I strung it up was how on earth I could arrange for this one to "get lost in shipping"!



There is more here.

I still have enough of this incredible material to do a hollow body, bent sides style, but with a Spanish Cedar neck or something like that. I will finish that one up one of these days...

~David

The koa/cedar McCloud that Duane Clark plays. It is a sweetheart, but then Duane makes it sound extra sweet.

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One that sticks out in my mind was Lance McCollum's (what was it his 100th?) guitar? It was some sorte of mile stone for Lance if I recall. It had a solid Brazilian Rosewood neck!

Lance, you got any picture of that sweet guitar?

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