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Here is a rare item! This is a baritone repertoire-doubler. Anything you play sounds completely fresh and new. In fact, it borders on magical. My pals at Dream Guitars have this one for sale right now.
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Here is a Nautilus, woodwork complete and pores all filled with epoxy. Ready for lacquer. This is redwood over lazy-curl Honduran mahogany with ebony bindings and lapis blue purfling. This baby is headed for Dolphin Music in Japan.
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The latest from my shop- a BRW and Adirondack Nautilus. I like it muchly.
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Here is my latest Nautilus. This is the finish “off the gun”- in other words,
yet to be wet sanded and buffed to a super high gloss. This is made of rare-bear quartersawn Brazilian and a lovely set of Adirondack spruce. My client daringly and boldly requested red purfling, and I couldn’t be happier with the color and look. Subtle, yet potent. I love it!
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Today I will cut my neck joint and set the neck on this BRW and Adirondack Nautilus. It’s got epoxy pore filler on it now, and you can really see the beautiful grain of the wood.
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Building the Comma soundhole. There is no CNC in my shop, so each one I make, from deathly-scary-vulnerable spruce point, to carving the bevel, is unique and slightly different.
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Here is the guitar I have built for the 2025 LaConner guitar festival next weekend. I literally strung this up about an hour before I recorded, and it already sounds huge. I’ll be proud to have this on my table!
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This Nautilus is headed to my friends and Miki Gakki, one of Japan’s premier guitar dealers. It’s an honor to be represented by them, and exciting to be making inroads into the vibrant Japanese guitar scene. I hope this Adirondack and quartersawn Cocobolo powerhouse represents my work well. I’m very proud of it, anyway!
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A rare thing here: a used Arum in Lutz spruce and Madagascar rosewood, in absolutely immaculate condition. This instrument is available right now, or at the LaConner guitar festival 5/16-18/2025.
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Hot off the presses is this Nautilus for Miki Gakki in Japan. The woods are Adirondack over quartersawn Cocobolo, bound in ebony and red pressure dyed poplar purflings. This instrument is so powerful and easy to play. I’m a happy man.
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Hot off the presses is this Nautilus for Miki Gakki in Japan. The woods are Adirondack over quartersawn Cocobolo, bound in ebony and red pressure dyed poplar purflings. This instrument is so powerful and easy to play. I’m a happy man.
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Diogo Novaes playing his beautiful composition To Have You in My Care and Behold You My Wake. I'm honored to hear one of my guitars being so well played.
He has many more videos on his YouTube channel. I recommend you check it out. www.youtube.com/@diogoandguitar
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A beautifully quartersawn cocobolo and Adirondack Nautilus for my friends at Miki Gakki in Japan. It’s shown here in a couple of coats of epoxy pore filler- I expect it will really shine under lacquer.
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Bill’s koa and Adirondack spruce Nautilus.
www.wilbornguitars.com
#Luthier #acousticguitar #boutiqueguitars
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Back to building…. Here’s the semi-built stage of an Arum. All my braces are oversized and ready to be trimmed down, and around, and over the reinforcement for the soundhole and the laminated maple bridge plate. Once that’s done, trimmed and smoothed, it will get glued in place on this cocobolo rim assembly. I haven’t built an Arum for awhile. This is good fun.
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