Half mando content/Half not - new Clarks

**austin** · Sep-15-2010, 12:53pm

Kicked these out the door yesterday. It is a matched set with custom inlay for a guy in Idaho Falls. Oil varnish/French polish and red maple backs from the same board.

Special thanks to Kennard at Intermountain Guitar and Banjo in Salt Lake City for letting me abuse his L5 collection for an afternoon!

(there are a few more pics of these on my facebook page)

**amowry** · Sep-15-2010, 1:09pm

Beautiful work Austin!

**Gail Hester** · Sep-15-2010, 4:44pm

...indeed, stunning Austin.

**F-2 Dave** · Sep-15-2010, 4:50pm

They look so happy together. They're both beautiful instruments. It's got me thinking about an archtop guitar, and I don't even play guitar.

**austin** · Sep-15-2010, 5:25pm

Doh!!! I just noticed the piece of blue tape.

**Gail Hester** · Sep-15-2010, 6:57pm

I'm so used to having bits of blue tape everywhere that I didn't even notice it

**grandcanyonminstrel** · Sep-15-2010, 8:29pm

Lookin' good Austin; hard to let those go out the door....

j.
www.condino.com

**Spruce** · Sep-15-2010, 8:39pm

Nice!!

**Skip Kelley** · Sep-16-2010, 10:56am

Beautiful work, Austin!! Love your sunburst!

**Randolph** · Sep-16-2010, 3:03pm

Hmmmm...Imagining that beautiful archtop guitar as a beautiful GOM...wouldn't that be something.

**Jake Wildwood** · Sep-18-2010, 7:42am

Nice!

**Michael Cameron** · Sep-21-2010, 2:46pm

I'd be proudly howling at the moon with those instruments! Wow!

I got a 16" archtop guitar a couple years ago(mahogany,Eastman Fisch/no pickup). (I'm not much of a guitar player either.) But,it's got ff-holes,nice 'burst,a big wooden tailpiece and nice fat sound. Now I play guitar a lot more! (yep,I capo it up high and play Wildwood Flower).

Archtop guitars are a heap o' fun. Can't believe I waited so long to get one.

**FletchB** · Sep-22-2010, 8:40am

Those are really beautiful Austin. I'll see you in Nashville next week.

**grassrootphilosopher** · Sep-23-2010, 4:14am

Nice sunburst and I like the howling wolf.

**austin** · Sep-25-2010, 11:01am

Thanks all! I have to admit, the guitar was really hard to let go of. I am not even much of a guitar player, but it was something special.

The inlay is actually a coyote. A wolf inlay would not exactly be PC in Eastern Idaho....

The client and I got some laughs about putting some livestock bones lower in the inlay as a conversation starter, but he was worried someone might break his guitar/mandolin!