sfIII
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I'm having a local luthier build me a all mahogany resonator guitar. It will have the same dimensions as the National El Trovador but be made out of solid mahogany. The neck will be a copy of a GF-50 which after a weekend of playing a bunch of guitars was my favorite. Oh it will have a slotted head stock.
I have bought two guitars off of this luthier.. A dobro a few years ago and most recently a mahogany 17" Jumbo. In side to side comparisons with my Guild F-48, the new jumbo sounds much better than the Guild.. The difference is a hand tuned top versus a production guitar.. Oh the dobro sounds great, I just need to play it more. For those interested in the luthier he is Doug Spencer of Short Mountain Guitars... I had to teach him the geological significance of Short Mountain.. it is an outlier of the Cumberland Plateau located some 20 miles west of the plateau on the Highland rim... All of that is here in Tennessee of course.
I have bought two guitars off of this luthier.. A dobro a few years ago and most recently a mahogany 17" Jumbo. In side to side comparisons with my Guild F-48, the new jumbo sounds much better than the Guild.. The difference is a hand tuned top versus a production guitar.. Oh the dobro sounds great, I just need to play it more. For those interested in the luthier he is Doug Spencer of Short Mountain Guitars... I had to teach him the geological significance of Short Mountain.. it is an outlier of the Cumberland Plateau located some 20 miles west of the plateau on the Highland rim... All of that is here in Tennessee of course.