First day French polish on Dennis’s 00. Platymiscium, aka ‘coyote’ wood. Looks pretty foxy to me! Hopefully will sound foxy too, as in Hendrix ‘Foxy Lady’ rather than Basil Brush “Boom Boom” (only Brits of a certain age will get this). #00guitar #steelstring #frenchpolish #platymiscium #coyote #madeinlondon #luthiersofinstagram #rosewoodfingerboard #sapwood #woodwork #etc 
T3 all spruce lattice model finished a while ago, now with Maestoso Music in Brighton. Same size as my regular Torres model, but ‘bigger’, ‘louder’, more ‘projection’. I use quote marks for these terms, they are so interchangeable and subject to discussion. Not your typical lattice ‘banjoey’ sound. #classicalguitar #latticetop #handmade #tonewood #woodworking #spruce #luthiersofinstagram #madeinlondon #indianrosewood 
Back to guitars, but first a taste of Cornwall - stripy slate, limpets eat rock, kelp and laver seaweed, very good with mussels, all foraged for dinner, the Doombar where boats run aground in the river Camel estuary, also name of very good local beer, wrecks, thrift aka sea-pink all over the cliffs in May. #rivercamel #doombar #trebetherick #seaweed #slate #cornwall 
Dennis’s 00 build coming on. Dovetail, fingerboard and endgraft. #guitar #00guitar #steelstring #responsiveguitar #hsndmade #luthiersofinstagram #woodwork #madeinlondon #fretboard #dovetail 
My client got this from @timberline_exotics, a certain Mr Sands got the other two sets - hormigo, coyote, Platymiscium. Smells nice, bends well, sounds very good. Also a very old alpine spruce top. The body shape is same as two famous classical guitars - Tarrega’s 1888 Torres and Segovia’s 1937 Hauser. But this is a steel-string, so very different under the hood. Pinless bridge, so no need for a patch in the bridge area. #alltheusualhashtags 
My doctor says I must have at least one guitar-free day a week. So, back to Cuckmere Haven. #sevensisters #cuckmerehaven #chalk #flint #blackthorn #southdownsway