I am proud to be able to say that I will be displaying at the Memphis Acoustic Guitar Festival. I have been working hard for 6 months getting 4 guitars ready for the show. I want to bring a variety of guitars with me so I can show a bit of diversity in my work and be able to cater to different peoples' taste. Hopefully I did that.
When my wife and I got word from Bob Singer that we were accepted into the show, we were ecstatic. We went out to the shop and starting digging through my wood shelf- putting together some unique tonal and visual combinations. There was one guitar that I had in mind that I didn't have a set for, but thanks to the OLF classifieds and John at Circa Guitars, I was able to get a crazy set of BRW to round out my 4 builds.
The first guitar I tackled was a cocobolo and western red cedar concert. I got this set of coco from Burton LeGeyt a while ago. I had been waiting for the right time to use it, and now seemed perfect. This guitar would be my "wood bling" guitar. I used radial cocobolo in the top purfling and the rosette to give it some visual interest and texture. For the binding I chose some high flame koa. I also chose to do an armrest on this one, which meant a koa armrest veneer. If you have ever done an armrest, you know that using ebony is the safest bet to get a seamless look. I was a bit nervous about getting this one perfect, but decided it was worth a try.
I used a matching set of cocobolo for the headstock overlays and the neck stripe. There is red all over this thing. There is also purfling all over the place.
Anyways, here are some pictures:
