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Laskin-style Rib Rest. I love one for the leg too.
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Rib Rest
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African blackwood with a paua backstrip
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Laskin-style arm rest bevel
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Corner detail. Ebony with black/white/black purfling
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Ebony on African blackwood and Italian spruce
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Laskin-style rib rest with black mother of pearl purfling. This is one of the "Black Pearl" sets.
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Stunning Brazilian baritone F with ebony smooth bevel and stark white purfling.
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Smooth bevel with black, white and a little blue on cocobolo with rare sapwood sides.
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Cocobolo with my take on the bevel, a doubled binding for all the comfort but without distorting the body shape.
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Jimmi's lovely rosette in koa
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A simple "standard" rosette with one little added liine of red. There's a reason simple rosettes have stood the test of time.
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Not all sapwood is created equal. This one was heavenly
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Rare quilted Cuban mahogany. One of the protected woods that we need to use care when procuring
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How do you make a killer guitar for a modern blues player who doubles on contemporary styles? The density of Cubano makes a fast start in the right direction.
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African blackwood, paua, smooth neck join. Believe it or not, rounded heels are a pain, but I love playing a guitar without hard edges.
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Smooth neck join.
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Paua black with an extra dose of black purfling and red. Cocobolo bindings.
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Sinker redwood, Wingert roundover with green abalone purfling.
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Headstock with paua purfling.
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Sinker redwood. A hundred years in the bottom of river makes for beautiful color and perfectly seasoned top. Jimmi's rosette in green abalone.
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I'm not a tree expert, I just know good wood for guitar making. I have read that cocobolo is a sexed tree and the extra black occurs only on male trees. Botanists feel free to correct me.
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Preciously rare spiderweb Brazilian.
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Cocobolo, character I choose anytime I get the chance, a "sword and chalice" backstrip treatment.
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Unfinished flamed maple parlor. This one is classical, Torres FE size. I finished it hand rubbed catalyzed oil.
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Ramirez-style headstock.
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Flamed maple, pau ferro bindings
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Inspired by Margaret Macdonald, interpreted by Jimmi. Koa and black MOP
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It could tempt you to think of Rapunzel
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The beauty of a yet-to-be fretted neck.
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Standard rosette with paua and black white black.
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The Glasgow rose (Mackintosh and Macdonald) black mother of pearl on black vulcanized fiber
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Jimmi's Celtic/Nouveau knot on the necklace-style bouzouki rosette
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Gorgeous cocobolo with sapwood sides. For denturies, this wood would have been rejected. Now we love it for the beauty and for the rarity of precious materials.
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Jimmi's Nouveau Knot. Love that girl.
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Bouzouki, or more accurately a CBOM (cittern, bouzouki, octave mandolin). Each instrument has it's own scale length, number of strings, bridge style, but modern players like a hybrid that will suit their style of play.
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African Blackwood, smooth bevel, black mother of pearl.
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This rosette is on my Klimt guitar. (Mine as in I'm keeping it). If time permits, one day these dots should be Glasgow roses.
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Wingert Roundover flamed koa on cocobolo.
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The Glasgow rose used in the fashion or a barouque soundhole rose on harp arm. The design was abducted and morphed from the amazing work of Mackintosh.
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Sycamore, bevels galore and 7 subs.
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Headstocks with too many species to name.
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Built by request, all koa ukulele with paua and a very wide guitarish neck
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Koa.
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Koa with koa binding
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Gold Gotohs with ebonoid buttons
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Bouzouki. Five courses should probabaly make it a cittern, but the scale length would be wrong.
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Cocobolo wiith sapwood.
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Gold Gotohs with ebonoid buttons.
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Ebony back cap
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Cosmo black Gotohs
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Ebony facecap, ebony-type buttons
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Half Moon Volute
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Hummingbird. Paua, mother of pearl and color overlays on ebony
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Hibiscus. Mother of pearl, gold mother of pearl, paua, green ab, on ebony
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Long-tailed hummingbird, abalones, mother of pearl and color overlay on ebony
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Five-course bouzouki headstock with celtic/nouveau knots on ebony
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Seven subs, slotted headstock. White limba neck
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Black/white ebony. Comfortable roundover for leg.
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Comfortable rib rest, ebony on black/white ebony.
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Roundovers and ebony trim on black/white. White limba neck.
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Black/white ebony
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Ebony rib rest roundover on black/white ebony
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