Guitar #003
Acoustic Dreadnought with solid Indian
Rosewood back and sides, Solid Sitka top, and Ebony fret board and bridge.

This is my third guitar and first acoustic. It started life as a kit
form Stewart MacDonald's Guitar Shop Supply (stewmac.com). It has solid
Indian Rosewood back and sides, and a solid Sitka Spruce
top, with an Ebony fret board.
As the kit came to me, the supplied back did not match the sides. I
found a perfectly matching back at a local supplier. I also changed the
head, head cap, truss rod access, binding, installed the back strip which was not included, changed the fret
board to 22 frets with two half frets extending over the sound hole, added
binding to the fret board (also not included), used a longer scalloped heal
block, and designed a unique bridge of ebony which complements other components
of this guitar and is wider to help resist twisting the top.
Completed 7th of March 2004.
 
Top
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Solid Sitka Spruce
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Rosette
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Three black/white/black plastic
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Bracing
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Sitka Spruce
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Back and sides
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Solid Indian Rosewood
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Backstrip
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Black/dark brown blocks in Maple
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Body Binding
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Grained Ivoroid
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Purfling
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Herringbone Wood/fibre combination
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End graft
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Grained Ivoriod
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Heal and Tail Blocks
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African Mahogany
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Kerfed Lining
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Mahogany
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Neck
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One peace African Mahogany
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Head Cap
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Ebony
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Head Inlay
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"Dickert" in Abalone
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Neck heal cap
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Ebony
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Truss Rod
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Twin rod two-way adjustable at head
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Truss Rod access cover
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Ebony (face) and Maple lamina
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Fret Board
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Ebony
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Position Marks
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Mother of Pearl dots
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Fret Board Binding
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Grained Ivoroid
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Bridge
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Ebony
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Bridge pins
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Slotted white plastic with Abalone dots
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Bridge Saddle
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Bone, compensated for intonation, graduated for string
thickness
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Nut
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Bone, Graduated for string thickness
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End pin
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Ebony with Mother of Pearl dot
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Tuners
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Chrome Grover Rotomatic Guitar Machines
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Finish
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French Polished Shellac
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