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Thanks for the challenge @watson43 . This is one I learned for a recent wedding. It’s under 2 mins and was a lovely piece to arrange and play around with. It definitely stays in the repertoire. Beatles tunes are always more difficult then I expect, this took a while to get under the fingers. It’s recorded live to my iPhone and was played through a Roland mobile ac. The little Roland is a fab piece of kit. I use it for my indoor Restaurant gigs and it’s plenty loud enough. enjoy.

I'm a fairly old dude, and have wanted to build a guitar for some 35 years. With a library of books collected over that time, and the marvel of the internet, I finally did it. Started with a "kit" from StewMac, which is basically a box of rough cut wood and parts, many of which I threw away and replaced with higher quality materials. I've spent 15 years putting together a wood shop, and so it started, in the wood shop. A year and a half and $5000 in parts and tools later, here it is. D-28 style dreadnaugh, Indian Rosewood back and sides, torified Sitka spruce top, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard, paua abalony inlays, tourtoise celluloid bindings, bone nut and saddle, hand made celluloid pickguard ( thank you Greg Voros for the material and your advise on setting the neck) and a nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Can't wait to start my second, likely a tobacco cherry sunburst dread. I can spread the obscene cost of tools over the next ones : ). Judging by the way it sounds and plays, I got my money's worth. Let's get the party started on this topic!!

A Little Less Conversation "A Little More Action Please" - Elvis Presley Taylor NS24ce nylon string Fishman Loudbox Mini

Oh yea, they start at $5,000 and go up.I seen one of his guitars and it was used, with a $30,000 price tag. His web site seem to indicate that $12,000 and $14,000 was the most common price range. Guess I’ll go buy a lottery ticket. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sAeXskZHC2o

Beautiful Mark, thank you for sharing it.

Great job Randy. Nice to hear someone else using a nylon string. 🎶🎶👍👍

Nice one Randy, great sound!

My Seagull S12 has a cedar top and cherry back/sides, I love it. At the time of purchase it had a very bright sound which is expected from a 12 string but the salesman said it will take a few years for the guitar to mellow. The S12 is now three years old, sounds great and the cedar top is darkening as it ages. The down side of the cedar top is that the wood is much softer than a spruce top and requires one to be a little more careful when handling the instrument to prevent marking the top. The S12 is always played for the Gordon Lightfoot songs. Henk