With all the problems that hardwoods give me health wise, it really is good to come home covered in white dust rather than black or brown dust once in a while.  That really is one of the reasons that I agreed to make this guitar, and the chance to use Quilted rather than fiddle back wood took some of the "telephone stress" away. That’s what I call it - you'll understand if you have just started to bend highly figured Maple, and the telephone rings, or someone taps you on the shoulder. Think Gordon Ramsay.

Isn’t it amazing that a natural tree can offer this sort of beauty?  The bindings are Ebony, because I thought the figure in the Maple would soften the high contrast against black, where I usually find such colours rather stark.  With a Maple guitar, I do like to use Maple for the neck as well, which is all well and good if I were shaping it by machine, but its really hard work on the poor old hands, so one way or another, this guitar was a bit of a holiday for me.