I have a new long scale 14 fret tenor in Indian rosewood and Adirondack spruce coming available. It has a slotted headstock, Gilbert tuners, radiused fingerboard, curly koa binding and an ebony pin bridge. Its a custom tenor I built for a gentleman whose circumstances unexpectedly changed. Its a new and unplayed instrument which I'll be finishing during the next week.
I'll also have a very cute little Nunes style soprano available in the next week. It has curly mahogany back and sides, a California redwood top, curly maple bindings, ebony fingerboard, faceplate and pin bridge. Its looks very elegant and sounds great.
In progress:
A California curly claro and Swiss spruce tenor for a customer in Hawaii. Its sweet !
A sharp red electric 15 fret long scale tenor in the style of a LP Junior for a customer in California.
An all Honduras mahogany custom tenor for an Hawaiian player. Custom scale, custom nut width, special setup.
There are some very interesting things going on these days in the world of technology, where my professional roots lie, and i'm getting more and more involved in a software startup. I'll be turning my building efforts back into a hobby next year. I've learned from the experiences i've documented for you in these notes and observations over the last few years that lutherie makes a great hobby but its logical development as a business capable of providing a living wage, health and retirement benefits etc for a family man changes its character completely and leads to a career managing a woodworking factory and significant artistic and lifestyle compromises. That's not where my interests lie. Faster, faster, harder, harder, cheaper, cheaper.
If you have been talking to me recently about a custom build, best act soon !
