I play a little guitar. I spend more time now making custom acoustic guitars. Here's the first:
It's a dreadnought size. The back, sides, and neck are mahogany. The soundboard is sitka spruce. The fretboard is rosewood. The rosette is koa. The headstock is covered with lacewood; the pickguard is lacewood. Though a bit hard to see, the spots on the fretboard are also lacewood. The bindings are curly maple. The maker's mark is genuine ivory, scrimmed with my initials. There's a piece of genuine ivory on the heel of the neck. The guitar was essentially made from scratch. The neck was preshaped, but I did the final shaping and finishing. The bridge was already made. A local scrimshaw artist did the scrim work. I made everything else.
I've also made some playing picks. These two are samples. The one on the right is lacewood, the one on the left is genuine ivory.
I'm in the process of making another guitar as we speak. It's smaller in comparison to the one above. The back and sides are black walnut; the top is redwood. The neck is mahogany. The fretboard, bridge, and rosette are cocobolo. The spots on the fretboard will be genuine ivory.
