Post by jdd2 on Jul 16, 2023 3:42:04 GMT -5
This is for some closure.
I'm not sure if you remember (it was some years ago), but I once messaged you about the possibility of putting together a Martin kit guitar. If I remember right, I think you said you might be able to put it together, but that someone else might help (Terry?), or that the finishing would be outsourced. There were some other details, ideas, options, but I guess those have been lost to time. It never came together, and the kit just sat here for a while.
I forget when I actually bought the kit, but it was at least some years before the above. It was a spruce mahogany, maybe a 000 or an OM, and 1-3/4 nut. After accumulating tools and building a jig or few, I decided that getting the dovetail right would be its demise, which is why I asked you about it.
Anyway, nothing ever came of that, and it continued to sit for a while. Eventually, cleaning up and getting rid of some stuff, I took the box full of parts to a local shop and the guy there was actually interested in it. We looked it up on the web (kits), and he gave me a reasonable price for it, and I threw in some of the tools that I'd gathered for the project, some books on building, etc.
Fast forward to today, when I was over there close to that shop for a different reason. I stopped in to say hello. The guy (owner, one man shop) had the finished guitar on a stand right there, said it was great, and was his player (he's got new Martins and Gibsons hanging around on the walls). Pics below. He said it was wonderfully light, and to my ears also sounded great--bright and loud, still with some Martin in it. He thought it was like about like a 00/000-18.
He didn't build it, but knew someone who built guitars and had them do it. It looked great, the reflections in the pics make it look less nice than it is (looks like a nitro finish).
I'm not sure if you remember (it was some years ago), but I once messaged you about the possibility of putting together a Martin kit guitar. If I remember right, I think you said you might be able to put it together, but that someone else might help (Terry?), or that the finishing would be outsourced. There were some other details, ideas, options, but I guess those have been lost to time. It never came together, and the kit just sat here for a while.
I forget when I actually bought the kit, but it was at least some years before the above. It was a spruce mahogany, maybe a 000 or an OM, and 1-3/4 nut. After accumulating tools and building a jig or few, I decided that getting the dovetail right would be its demise, which is why I asked you about it.
Anyway, nothing ever came of that, and it continued to sit for a while. Eventually, cleaning up and getting rid of some stuff, I took the box full of parts to a local shop and the guy there was actually interested in it. We looked it up on the web (kits), and he gave me a reasonable price for it, and I threw in some of the tools that I'd gathered for the project, some books on building, etc.
Fast forward to today, when I was over there close to that shop for a different reason. I stopped in to say hello. The guy (owner, one man shop) had the finished guitar on a stand right there, said it was great, and was his player (he's got new Martins and Gibsons hanging around on the walls). Pics below. He said it was wonderfully light, and to my ears also sounded great--bright and loud, still with some Martin in it. He thought it was like about like a 00/000-18.
He didn't build it, but knew someone who built guitars and had them do it. It looked great, the reflections in the pics make it look less nice than it is (looks like a nitro finish).
