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6th Anniversary Instruments
 
NOW TAKING INQUIRIES INTO THE
6-INSTRUMENT "6th ANNIVERSARY PACKAGE" - inquire
Every year we celebrate our Anniversary by
building special instruments... the 1st was a Mesquite Cortobass now
living in Colorado. The 2nd a pair of fretted & fretless Pecan
Cortobasses, including the one in the "Hand Made Hand
Played" book. 3rd was a blackwashed Cortobass with an eagle
carved in. 4th was an all Maple Fusion. And last year for our 5th we
made 5 wild rainbow Cortobasses out of random strips of various woods.
This year is our 6th, and given the fact we have six models, we
will make one of each ~ Cortobass, Sadhana, Fusion, Hy5, Skyrider and
Electric Jazz guitar ~ from wild, rustic Texas Mesquite, with twin stringers of
Maple bordered by Walnut. They will all have black hardware,
Mesquite headstock overlays and special plaques, and we'll show
pictures of the builds here. These exact builds will not be
duplicated, and this limited run will first be offered as a set of all
six instruments.
Mesquite is a magical wood to me; it speaks of the wild and
untamed lands of the South & Southwest, the ancient rugged beauty,
and those who were here long ago. It has unique tonal properties,
working properties and spiritual qualities that only become apparent
when you work with it. It does not like to be dominated and
consistently holds surprises as it is worked. All the Mesquite in
these builds came from the same local source a few years back; we
followed leads into extreme rural Texas and found a man of many tarps;
what weren't covering old cars covered stacks of amazing old milled Mesquite.
Now it comes back to life.
The Birdsong "6th Anniversary Package" is how these
instruments will first be offered. The package includes the collection
of six Anniversary instruments, some with very low serial numbers...
also some very special additional pieces of random birdsong history (think of them as part gesture of gratitude and part
really big surprises at the bottom of the really big Cracker Jack box), and I will
hand deliver it all to you anywhere in the continental USA personally.
While I'm there I'll be happy to set them up to your preference and
help you shop for amplifiers or any other gear you may require to
accompany your new fleet. Want to have a whole collection of special
commemorative instruments, invest in a never-to-be-repeated special
package of early builds from a growing guitar company and instantly go down in Birdsong history? If
this sounds like fun, please inquire about the "6th Anniversary
Package".
Here are the builds...
6th Anniversary Cortobass, serial number
200. #50 and #100 were also Anniversary instruments; funny how
things work out sometimes.
6th Anniversary Sadhana, serial number 044.
6th Anniversary Skyrider, serial number 005
6th Anniversary Fusion, serial number 014
6th Anniversary Hy5, serial number 034
...and the 6th Anniversary Electric Jazz Guitar, a model
we've shifted over to be under the D'Aquila
name; so not only is this a one-of-one build, it's #002 of the only
two "Birdsong" EJGs AND it's the first entirely hand crafted
set-neck instrument out of the new San Marcos workshop!
Keep checking in!
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