Comfort Zone

Recently, I saw the conclusion of a special guitar that I was commissioned to build almost a year ago. I was challenged to build what was essentially a traditional fingerstyle guitar using an elegantly figured set of English walnut coupled with a dramatic ‘bearclaw’ Sitka spruce soundboard. This was to be combined with a fingerboard decorated with hand-cut geometric inlays and an asymmetric soundhole rosette. As if that wasn’t enough,