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Eben,

Thanks for the defense. As far as I'm concerned if we're good, I'm happy.

MrZ,

Thanks. I like the shell rosettes too, but they are more trouble to install I think.

Raymond

Thanks guys for the encouraging words. Lefty, I took several tops, backs and sides over to Eben's one night and broke 3 different sanding belts. :o One of them was while sanding this top. Probably a combination of taking too big a bite, tracking too slow, and working it for too long, but I think the...

Ray very nice and one loving dad too boot! Olivia will be so excited to receive a guitar from Daddy, even if she does not know how to play it yet. She will know daddy made it for me though! Ray those pieces from Antoni (ebay) Vietnames? Thxs Hugh Thanks Hugh. Yes I believe it was Antoni. He had sev...

The Top - The top is Curly Bear. Steve has had good success with it so when a smallish set became available on ebay I bought it. Here it is after jointing, but before using it to destroy a belt on Eben's Delta 18. http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o274/feissli/Olivias%20Padauk/01-07-08024.jpg Thin...

Raymond, That is really a beautiful guitar, but the first thing that strikes me is it looks as though playability was the key design factor. I'm not sure why that seems to be the case - something about the body shape, and particularly the cutaway... the neck looks really well proportioned... the he...

Randy, Eben, Waddy, Joe, & Hesh,

Thanks for the warm praise. It does keep me going especially coming from people I respect and admire as much as all of you.

Raymond

Nice job! was it hard to kick out of the nest? I know my first commission was very hard. I got through it with some words from Dennis and Eben, but still miss it. I get updates from time to time, so that makes me feel good. Be sure to get them to do a public review on Harmony Central. I am one of t...

Joe,

Now I can say I'm looking forward to hearing the difference.

Nice clean work. And you are cranking them out too. Thanks for letting us tag along.

Raymond