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The life of a hand maker can be interesting. I got
a request for an
“ergonomic” guitar for somebody who is short with small
hands and who is getting tired of reaching around Dreads. After a
lot of e-mail back and forth we settled on a “wedge” shaped
body and a narrow neck with a scale length of 20". This is the
result. The choice of 12- or 14-fret neck was left up to me. I ended
up making it 14 frets just
because 12 would have looked so short! This put
the bridge up pretty
high and, combined with the slack strings, made for an acoustic challenge.
The result seems to have worked out well, although with the
narrow nut and close fret spacing challenged my big mitts. The woods
are Sitka spruce and Indian rosewood. The binding and bridge are
made from Morado and the neck is mahogany. |
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