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Here’s tim’s story on the wood
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Been watching some of your old Vidcasts and I came across #95 with Steve Haberichter which I was watching, and he pulls out the Fort Ross/Meteor Flame Pernambuco guitar.
An interesting backstory to this is at one of the NAMM’s Steve came up to me, because he knows I’m into wood, and asks me to let him know if I come across any wild exotic woods he might like so he can have SCGC make a guitar for him for sale?
None of the other dealers has ever asked me this even though I’ve met them at the show and house parties SCGC has thrown. So coincidentally I told him I got some killer figure Pernambuco and that Richard is going to be making me a guitar out of it; but I have enough for three to four guitars with super nice backs and a bit less figured sides.
I showed him the pictures and told him what the wood would probably costs as sets, so he could estimate his price of the build. He said he’s very interested!
BTW this is the Pernambuco I was referring to in the interview you guys did with me where it came from the fence from Brazil.
Anyway, Richard made me two guitars at the same time, and because it would matter more from a dealer standpoint I chose the set with two knots on the back for my guitar, so Steve could have the cleaner one. Both got paired with what I consider mastergrade Fort Ross tops. So that’s the guitar Steve has in the video, and subsequently he bought another guitar with the back and sides from the same boards that were in the Private Vault guitar, which unfortunately was made after NAMM.”
you are not forgotten, just lots going on and Richard is very thoughtful on his answers, so give him some time to injest this question
Thanks!
Hey Daniel,
Check the used prices; I suspect you are undervaluing this instrument. I’d say 3K was a fire sale, and 3500. would be more in line with this. Good luck, I hope your healing in continuing.
How could these two very important days happen at once? Nice to hear from you Daniel, all looks well in your world
I was at the shop yesterday, I want to talk with Richard about it, I hope to this week, but it’s crazy busy with the 50th next Saturday. Thanks for your patience, stay tuned
Greetings
Do you know any history on the guitar? Serial number? The shop should be able to trace and repair work if it was done there. I asked Richard about that once and he credited Rick Turner the tilt, better intonation. Our resident FS expert, Tad is off the grind for a few weeks somewhere in the frozen north. Let’s try to solve this mystery
