2nd anniversary
Commemorative Cortobasses
(Sorry, they're spoken for)

About the 2nd anniversary pair
Our first Anniversary in 2005 was celebrated with a Cortobass made from Texas Mesquite. in 2006 for our second, two basses were built together as one pair. Cortobasses serial #49 and #50 became not only playable works of art, but they represented everything we'd learned & incorporated into the Cortobass design over the previous two years.

They began life as the same Texas tree; then the same slab, which sat stored & aging for years in a woodworker's shed here in Birdsong Guitars' hometown of Wimberley, Texas. After we obtained this slab, an afternoon of careful positioning resulted in four full body halves with the best spots of natural character positioned where they would be seen. 

Look at the way they fit - this was meant to be; if not a tree, two basses for thee! This is wild, natural wood, and these bodies are the farthest thing from bookmatched, perfect veneers you could imagine. And we're proud of that.

 

C49 out of the finishing room, awaiting build...
C50 is out of sanding, into finishing...

 

Here they are in assembly together! 

I have a little more of this wood and have cut it into Sadhana bodies - these will be the only two Texas Pecan Cortobasses!

(Note: in early 2007 I obtained the rest of this wood from the workshop of my late friend Uncle Johnny Kirtland... it will become instruments, but just not Cortobasses. ~Scott)