Hi all, I thought I should introduce myself and finally make a post with a pic or two of the guitars I have finished. My name is Tony and well...you can guess where I live.
A couple of recent posts have pushed me to finally start posting.
Here are some pics of my second kit guitar:
First the specs:
Kenneth Michael Guitars(KMG) Dreadnought
Black Walnut back and sides with a little figure in the tail section
Engelmann spruce top
Maple bindings
I added:
Abalone purfling with w/b/w borders
The head plate, heel cap and tail wedge are all curly spalted maple
w/b/w purflings all around and mitered them on the tail wedge for fun
My brother is a hunter and this was a surprise gift for his birthday so it has a hunting theme...hmmmm....
Anyway, it has a deer track side port and the nut, bridge pins and saddle are amber buffalo horn. I tried to find deer antlers to make them out of, but it turns out, antlers would be too soft according to some other animal shooters I know.
I had Andy DePaule make me a buck head inlay for the headstock which came out much better than I ever imagined it could.
Side marker dots are abalone and I borrowed the idea for their layout from Chris Wood. I dont know if he invented that method of doing the side dots, but it was on one of his guitars that I first saw them like this.
So, please enjoy the pics!!
The deer track side port
Please post your comments, thoughts, etc. I am open to hearing them.
Oh, finish was Deft Brushing lacquer in semi gloss.
Here is a link to my flickr account with pics of my other guitars:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49539199@N06/
I am currently working on two all koa guitars, an OM and a dread and a curly claro walnut and cedar topped dread. When I make more progress on those, I will post more pics.
Thanks for looking!
Tony