Made from the wood of a deconstructed 1760 Vermont barn. The bridge is a nail taken from the same barn. Pearl maple-leaf on the headstock. This instrument is in a personal VT art collector's home.
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I get the same when I cut into most old wood. Fresh looking and smelling One exception is a couple days ago and some previous times, I cut into old Harmony guitar head stocks and the wood is old and fibrous.
Yeh, I know what you mean, but I was going for the "Vermont maple" thing. It was wicked hard to slice the barn board top to 1/4" without it cupping. I do have one other piece for a top, so that one will manifest sometime in the future! I was so surprised to see that when I did cut the ancient wood, it was fresh and clean inside like a brand new board! With the exception of the mahogany & sapele neck, all the wood was from the collector's property. The neck (side-view) is a sandwich of sapele/maple/mahogany…come out nice.
Yup. Very nice. Some folks like the old with new style - Maddog is one for sure. Man. I like it like it is, but wonder how it would look with a headstock relic-ed to match or mimic the box top. Might be good to darken the saddle underneath the nail. Man, maybe just leave a good thing alone! Oh. Now I read it is in a collector's home. Well, he got a nice piece of playable art.
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Drooopie Dribble ! drool,drool, Old Wood Looking Good !
Yup. You got the maple thing down.
I get the same when I cut into most old wood. Fresh looking and smelling One exception is a couple days ago and some previous times, I cut into old Harmony guitar head stocks and the wood is old and fibrous.
Yeh, I know what you mean, but I was going for the "Vermont maple" thing. It was wicked hard to slice the barn board top to 1/4" without it cupping. I do have one other piece for a top, so that one will manifest sometime in the future! I was so surprised to see that when I did cut the ancient wood, it was fresh and clean inside like a brand new board! With the exception of the mahogany & sapele neck, all the wood was from the collector's property. The neck (side-view) is a sandwich of sapele/maple/mahogany…come out nice.
Yup. Very nice. Some folks like the old with new style - Maddog is one for sure. Man. I like it like it is, but wonder how it would look with a headstock relic-ed to match or mimic the box top. Might be good to darken the saddle underneath the nail. Man, maybe just leave a good thing alone! Oh. Now I read it is in a collector's home. Well, he got a nice piece of playable art.
yup.l
Nail is a nice touch. But that sound hole 8O
^ supposed to be some googley eye smiley :D