Re: OT: Update on my mini jazz archtop guitar ("The Little Mammoth")

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Really really beautiful instrument, Krispen. Can't wait to hear it Sunday!!

Nobody, but nobody, is ever going to out-vintage the nut on that axe. 
Awesome.

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

> Well, it's now 99% complete. The luthier will be fed ex'ing the guitar 
> to me on Tuesday, overnight, just in time to play it at the Boise 
> Experimental Music Festival. Check out the new pictures and description:
>  
> http://www.krispenhartung.com/mini-jazz-guitar/index.htm
>  
> An excerpt that really makes this guitar special....
>  
> /"The story behind this nut is just amazing and mind-blowing. A friend 
> of Bobby's from Alaska sent him a good size chunk of Woolly Mammoth 
> tusk, which you can see below. Just to jog your memory, mammoths went 
> extinct roughly 10,000 years ago. Hence, the ivory nut on this guitar 
> is an actual artifact! I was born in Alaska, and because of this, the 
> size of the guitar, and its "big guitar sized" tone reported by Bobby, 
> I named the guitar the "The Little Mammoth.""/