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

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Here are the first live clips from The Little Mammoth:

Krispen Hartung, Brian McFadin, & Jared Hallock
BEMF - Sunday -  http://www.box.net/shared/13edevpws4

I'll have more later, plus  more pictures of the instrument.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 

> Interesting! Small hollow-body guitars are nice. I have played the
> Ibanez Georg Benson model a lot and think it's awesome. This was an
> old post of Kris' pen that bounced back into the loop - will you post
> a follow up? How does the Little Mammoth do now when it's finally out
> there making noise in your hands?
>
> Per
>
>>> 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.""
>>>
>>> Kris
>