Ambrosia Maple
This ambrosia, soft maple guitar back was made with five joined pieces from a single board.
Ambrosia
A Bad Gift Idea?
Originally I had bought this maple board for my father for his birthday knowing that he had a special place in his hear for ambrosia maple. Upon its giving my father scoffed and rejected it. He said that he would need a hundred board feet of such boards to make any use of it. So, I made a guitar out of it.
Scale Length:
650mm
Wenge Bridge
It's a hard and extremely resonant wood with a resin that is used to numb fish.
Headstock
Three pieces with a curly maple binding and some Gilbert Tuning Machines
Heel Joint
Although my necks are detachable I have always enjoyed capturing the look of the Spanish heel
Woods
A five piece maple back, a black walnut headstock and a lutz spruce top
My Mosaic Rosette
It's a 20 x 20 pattern that was improvised. I could never intentionally create that design.
Lutz Spruce Soundboard
Lutz spruce is a hybrid of engelmann and sitka spruce.
End Graft
This is an obscure place to get some purfling joinery practice.
Elevated Neck
This black walnut neck is elevated about 1/2 an inch at the 12th fret.
Fingerboard Binding
I think an ebony fingerboard framed with curly maple binding is very striking while also elegant.