Here today, gom tomorrow

**oldwave maker** · Oct-19-2006, 12:07pm

Fresh-compression grain Musser englemann top, adirondack x bracing

**oldwave maker** · Oct-19-2006, 12:09pm

that curly red stuff from OS on the backside

**glauber** · Oct-19-2006, 12:15pm

Bill, you make such beautiful instruments!

What's fresh-compression grain Musser? Sounds like high-tech granola!

**steve V. johnson** · Oct-19-2006, 3:21pm

Yeah, Bill, you've built a gorgeous instrument, and I'm very grateful that you've shown it to us, but you're talking over my simple Hoosier head, here!

Doesn't Musser build marimbas?!?!? <GGG>

And what's the "OS" mean, too? Sorry to be so dense...

Thanks,

stv

**glauber** · Oct-19-2006, 4:02pm

Old Spice?

Old Spruce? Operating System?

**glauber** · Oct-19-2006, 4:03pm

I love the straight lines of the pickguard and tailpiece. It looks so Art Deco!

**Jim M.** · Oct-19-2006, 4:11pm

Beautiful work, as always, Bill! I'm not sure why everyone doesn't have one yet.

Probably spruce from the wood pile of Don Musser, a famous guitar maker in New Mexico. And I bet OS is Old Standard, wood suppliers.

**oldwave maker** · Oct-19-2006, 4:54pm

Indeed- Don Musser 505 534-4087 engelmann, old standard maple, tho Steve Bernstein would be the first to admit that the best topwood I ever used was from OI -orcas island tonewoods, Bruce Harvie.
its a fresh instrument, ie, strung up just this morning, the compression grain is an anomaly in a couple of logs Don got years ago, I bought a bunch because I like it tonally. some resembles adirondack red spruce in that the dark late growth lines are prominent.
A paleoclimatologist at NOAA in boulder said she'd get me actual chronological dates for some of this #Rio Grande river headwaters wood since her office just did a dendro- based climatic reconstruction of that area.
turpentine soaked wood: M (usser), O(ld) S(tandard), and a sitka/engelmann hybrid Lutz from BC.

**oldwave maker** · Oct-19-2006, 4:56pm

oops!

**glauber** · Oct-19-2006, 5:17pm

Bill, have you thought about making mandolin-sized instruments with that shape? People would go gaga for them. Or even a 10-string mandola-mandolin thing... If i were one of them rich Americans, i'd be buying one today!