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Honestly, I wasn’t sure I really liked my redwood topped FTC at first – it was a bit too dry and fundamental.  But I also know that SC guitars open up with some playing – so I just hung on and played it from time to time. Sure enough, after some months, I started to hear it open up, and loosen up, and the tone started to develop a bit more complexity and warmth. I now consider it an extremely special guitar – and agree that redwood can make an outstanding guitar.  I have also believed that I wouldn’t want just a single redwood guitar, that it doesn’t have the complete tone that I want – but the more I listen and play it, I’m coming to think that I’ve just spent most of my life playing spruce guitars, and there may be some internal wiring in me that has me believing I prefer that. Almost a hard-coded preference that I will need to keep aware of in the future – and I also need to remember that usually it’s not the instrument as much as the musician –

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I can probably get you a bit of scrap Pernambuco if you want to try turning some of your own – other than a bit of decoration, I don’t think they’ll add anything to the Ramuda –

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Thats awesome! I can’t imagine how wonderful it would be to perform with one of my children – get her her own mic!

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Jam 400 is pretty nice – just a bit of a lug carry around –

I have been working hard on my music room – it has a solid masonry wall facing south, and poor ventilation, so it gets pretty uncomfortable in the summer evenings. But I ordered and installed a Mr Cool mini-split, and now I have cool or heat, as needed! All it took was coring a 3.5″ hole through 13″ of brick and concrete filled CMUs – But its all OK when you only have to look back at it –

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Need to set up for practice tonite –

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Musta been my evil twin –

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I’m IN!

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Mugs have not been forgotten! But they were put on the back-burner until SCGC got their mug out (can’t upstage them!) so we’ll have to re-visit this one very soon –

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I’d play it that way for a while – it changes the way the guitar hangs, it’s center of gravity so-to-speak. You can always add a strap button later. I mean, it looks like you’ve already got it –

You might also try a “Neck-Up” – it’s another really nice way to hold the guitar, but it only works when you’re seated –

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I was having the exact same thought!

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Santa Cruz does maple so incredibly well, yet (it seems) so incredibly infrequently – and they do get so much better with age!

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Yeah – but when cost is no object, I’ll still put it into the guitar instead of the pickup –

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Yes –  yes it would –

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A really enjoyable guy to talk to! Hope he books a couple dates out here when he picks up his guitar!

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Did you do any recordings to hear how that sounds to an audience? Gotta remember, the FTC is not designed to provide optimal sound for the player –

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