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Greetings from loothland. I feel like a slug lately, I've been dragging myself to the shop. Various external reasons we all may be suffering from and this Maine winter is kicking my ass as well.
Anyway, I got strings on this guitar and it sounds pretty kick ass. I think it might be the loudest guitar I've ever made which is pretty darn loud. The tailpiece is an experiment, I've never loved the idea of the heavy non-flexible brass tailpiece. I need to tighten up that line on the end of the tailpiece but it's hard to get it exactly right. I'm not sure I like the look of the tailpiece but it works...proof of concept anyway.
Another in my line of weird GJ guitars that maybe no one wants to buy but I really like it. Definitely the only guitar that looks like that....
I like the tailpiece. You could try reversing it, to see if the tone and/or feel of the strings change with different "afterlengths" of the various strings.
I like the tailpiece too. The string afterlength follows what's on the Boonstra tailpiece on my guitar. I'd definitely wanna buy that one based on the looks only.
Beautiful axe, Paul - would so love to try it!!
Cool tailpiece!
Are you going to put a rosette around that sound hole? Abalone would look great. I would love to try this, and compare it to my Selmer, and my other guitars.
You have built a beautiful guitar, but Ari from AJL made a similar one a few years ago; although it wasn't a beautiful blue like you have built.
Everytime I see this thread, I picture Paul saying, "Do you waaaaant....to buy a guitar?"😂 Classic.
No rosette, it's inspired by some Jimmy D'Aquisto arch tops that I love. They have a pretty minimalist aesthetic. But I would love to have you try it.
It is very, very loud. Loudest acoustic ever? Could be.
I see the similarities in the AJL but it's a bit of a different vibe I think. It's hopefully more like this:
https://theblueguitars.com/portfolio-items/daquisto-centura-deluxe/
To complete "and now for something completely different" theme, I always wondered why nobody tried this D'Aquisto style adjustable bridge on a Selmer style guitar...are you going to be the first?