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    300win.
    Sorry for the rough remark, I'm sure Dave Sturgis built some great guitars, and I have no place judging what I don't know anything about.
    What prompted my remark was when I was ordering my Oak, the cutter said the same thing "oak? that would make a real heavy guitar". Lots of woods used for guitars are heavier than Oak, Maple and some of the Rosewoods for example.

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    Hans, you’re doing it again!
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    300win.
    Sorry for the rough remark, I'm sure Dave Sturgis built some great guitars, and I have no place judging what I don't know anything about.
    What prompted my remark was when I was ordering my Oak, the cutter said the same thing "oak? that would make a real heavy guitar". Lots of woods used for guitars are heavier than Oak, Maple and some of the Rosewoods for example.
    No offence taken. Best I can remember Mr. Sturgis said he was going to put that one in his wood stove lol. It was sad what happened to his shop, he lived and had his shop in a little valley off the mountain there next to a fair size creek, it came a big rain and flooded, ruined everything he had in his shop. He had to stop building after that, had quite a bit of work in various stages of build, repair, I'm sure he lost a lot of money on having to reimburse customers.

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    I'm a big oak fan. I love it. White oak mostly but red oak looks great for somethings. I have a nice white oak guitar back and side set thats been aging in the shop for a few years now. My original plans were for a 000 size guitar but i might use it for a martin style flat back mandolin that i have plans to.

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    Here is a cool Martin Arts and crafts oak guitar at Elderly instruments.
    http://www.elderly.com/new_instruments/items/ARTS2.htm

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    Hans that parlor guitar looks absolutely stunning!

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    Here's my Victoria B&J parlor guitar, made out of Oak. And strangely enough, I am playing a mandolin tune on bottleneck guitar here:
    Andy Alexis Oak Guitar

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    Andy thats a nice little guitar there. Sounds great....Mike

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    A friend of mine bought some oak that had a beautiful flame figure to it and I thought it would make a beautiful instrument wood.

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    I happened to attend a social gathering Saturday near Knoxville where John Arnold and a number of other luthier nerds were on hand. John brought along his oak Norman Blake guitar as posted earlier in this thread and we played music for about an hour. What a great guitar!!!!

    It was especially nice to hear the interplay between it with a red spruce top he (along with Ted Davis and I believe John Hamlett) cut in 1991, a Brazilian rosewood mandolin I built recently with one of the red spruce tops he and Ted Davis cut in 1987, and one of my double basses made from a sitka top I got from Bruce Harvey about ten years ago- a nice representation from the 'cafe family.

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    When Doc Watson passed, there were a number of radio pieces about it. One of them was an interview with Wayne Henderson, who had built a number of guitars for Doc. And he said Doc's last request was for one made of oak. IIRC, that one's going to the family.
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    Wayne's daughter, Jayne, built the oak guitar for Doc, though it was not completed until after his passing. Wayne played that guitar during the Doc tribute at the Henderson Festival in June--sounded great. Wayne also built an oak guitar that was raffled off at the festival.
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    Wayne also built an oak guitar that was raffled off at the festival.
    Someone got lucky!
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    Here's a recording of an oak instrument Nick Apollonio built. Sounds pretty good to me.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjgAcHZHYJA

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