6/10/06: My new guitar:
OM-30DB Pat Donohue Custom
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Here it is alongside my OM-35.
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Little Petey, our
youngest (of 4) dachshund, was also a Christmas gift for
our family.
Petey loves music. Actually, he loves everything.
Petey sniffs the ebony tuning knobs.
This photo also shows the wonderful
McKinney-Elliot
Capo that stores above the nut when not in use.
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The top is Adirondack Spruce, with scalloped bracing. The sound hole
rosette
is inlayed with abalone
shell (in Martin-guitar-speak: "style-45 rosette").
The East Indian rosewood headplate is inlaid with an abalone
torch, and the
tuning machines are fitted with ebony knobs. The nut is bone, 1-11/16"
wide.
Another shot of the top. You can
see the microphone from the factory-installed
Fishman Ellipse
Matrix Blend
dual-pickup system which also includes a piezo-electric pickup under the
bone saddle. I installed the same
system last year on my
Martin OM-35, and I really like its versatility and
sound.
The back and sides are flame maple,
stained to match the Spanish cedar neck.
The body binding is tortoise-shell colored, which I tried to show in these 2
photographs.
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Update 1/30/007: I've now slotted the bridge and installed snakewood pins.
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Update 5/5/007: Today I added a buffalo horn/abalone strap button to hold my new Sully Strap:
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Here's an "X-ray
vision" photo of the bracing pattern,
taken with internal flash lighting:
Jay Keller,
December 29, 2006
See our family's other musical instruments here
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more...)
Last revision 8/26/007