View Full Version : Half mando content/Half not - new Clarks
Austin Clark
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 Clark
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:)
j. condino
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 Clark
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!
Dale Ludewig
Sep-26-2010, 6:17am
Really nice!
Steve-o
Sep-26-2010, 10:32am
Wow, that pair is stellar. Love the headstock and burst, and attention to detail!