The natural beauty thread

[kiteman]

I'll go first.

 

[hubberjub]

Though I have several I could contribute I'll keep it to one. This is my 1992 Gibson Les Paul Studio. It was my first good guitar. It started out life with black paint and gold hardware. After ten years of play the paint was not holding up well so I stripped it off and finished it with several coats of tung oil which I buffed in with ultra fine steel wool.

 

[WackyT]

My birthday present to myself this year.

Guild/DeArmond Starfire Custom

 

[bigoldron]

Here's my Yamaha. It's a pretty decent little guitar!

 

[duhvoodooman]

OK, I'll bite. My "transparent honey" Xaviere XV820 Tele copy:

 

[wingsdad]

My Natural Beauties would be most of my acoustics...sorry for eating bandwith, but some backsides are worth the look.

First, my well-worn partner since new, a '70 Guild D40NT:

The first issue of the Takamine Santa Fe Series, a '93 ESF-93...verified with Tak that its s/n makes it the 35th made of the limited run of 1,100. MIJ, solid cedar top, solid lacewood (silky oak) back/sides, turquoise eagle flying across the fretboard:

Another MIJ Tak Santa Fe, an '02 EAC38C...solid spruce top, solid rosewood b/s, natural maple body bindings, dyed turquoise for the back seam, and more Japanese inlay artistry:

My '04 Washburn NV100C is a semi-solid mahogany bodied, spruce-topped nylon string a/e:

...and finally, this little Oscar Schmidt reissue of a 1920's Washburn uke, an '08 OU-250BELL, is of solid Trembesi...some say the next koa, as that wood grows scarce:

But the absolutely most gorgeous sounding and looking acoustic (a/e) I ever owned was a Tacoma JK28C, a koa-bodied jumbo that Rocket acquired from me last year...via this thread:
Tacoma JK28C

 

[Spudman]

Hagstrom Viking Deluxe

Squier Tele

Ibanez ST200

Peavey Generation EXP Double

Rogue PRS copy

 

[sunvalleylaw]

This is my only nat. guitar. (I am the one on the right with the hair sticking out the back of my hat. It was a Christmas performance I showed up to after skiing and just threw a hat on.) Pretty basic, but it was my first. That is my first guitar instructor there too with his D-35 that he plays beautifully with his thumb pick and fingers. I don't take lessons from him now, but we still play together some and are friends.

 

[ted s]

 

[Dauntless]

Fender "70s" Strat

Fender Lite Ash Tele

Both my Micheal Kellys

and a couple of others not shown.

 

[FrankenFretter]

My Douglas

At the moment, the only natural beauty in the quiver:

IMHO, mahogany is not the prettiest of all woods for a natural finish guitar. Not as pretty as, say, flame maple or the like. Still, not an ugly guitar, I suppose.

 

[just strum]

I have this

But to be honest, when I saw the title of the thread, the beer girls came to mind.

 

[Spudman]

I have this
But to be honest, when I saw the title of the thread, the beer girls came to mind.

What is that? I like the bridge. Nice design.

 

[just strum]

What is that? I like the bridge. Nice design.

It's a Orpheum. It's imported by Tacoma.

Mine is a OD19SWM

Closest thing I can find for you to read

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/product/Orpheum/OD24SWM/10/1

Or were you referring to the beer girls?

 

[just strum]

Here is some more info on the guitar - some guy named Wingsdad over at the Tacoma forum had one. Hey, wait a minute....

http://www.tacomaguitarforum.com/index.php?topic=835.0

 

[evenkeel]

They are all natural. Ok a bit boring.

The St. Pete herd. A Dean Sweetwood 00R and a Guild D35-NT (1975).

The Gang in Annapolis
A Martin D12-1, a Morgan Monroe M-30 and a Martin D2-R.

 

[Perfect Stranger]

My Agile AL-3100

My Carvin C350

 

[just strum]

Almost forgot my Epi PR350

I went out to buy picks and this followed me home.

 

[evenkeel]

My Natural Beauties would be most of my acoustics...
...and finally, this little Oscar Schmidt reissue of a 1920's Washburn uke, an '08 OU-250BELL, is of solid Trembesi...some say the next koa, as that wood grows scarce:

wingsdad,
Great looking collection. Love 'em all but that uke is really cool. :AOK: :AOK:

 

[MichaelE]

My el-cheapo Dean Vendetta. Surprisingly, it plays pretty well and the pickups aren't half bad either. I have a little trouble switching to it because of the scale length after playing my LP.

This one is getting a make-over in a month or so. New paint and hardware with maybe a pickup swap.

 

[Dauntless]

My Agile AL-3100

Now you've done it,
I've drooled on my keyboard.
Is this thing supposed to spark like that?
ZZZTTTT

 

[Mr Grumpy]

Heres my GS again for those who havent seen it. Simple but effective.

 

[Rocket]

Heres my GS again for those who havent seen it. Simple but effective.

That is simple... but effective?
Is it an optical illusion due to light reflection or is that wrap-around bridge not compensated at all?
If so, is there no method to adjust for intonation?

 

[Kazz]

These two have me G.A.S.ing pretty badly.....

My Agile AL-3100

Squier Tele

 

[Spudman]

These two have me G.A.S.ing pretty badly.....

My Agile AL-3100

I like the Agile too.

 

[MichaelE]

That is simple... but effective?
Is it an optical illusion due to light reflection or is that wrap-around bridge not compensated at all?
If so, is there no method to adjust for intonation?

I'm puzzled by this too. That isn't a bridge at all, only the tailpiece.

 

[Rocket]

I'm puzzled by this too. That isn't a bridge at all, only the tailpiece.

Well, that one does look like just the tailpiece part of a tailpiece & bridge assembly, but they do make a one-piece wrap-around tailpiece but it is not smooth... usually has a molded compensated bridge-ridge or adjustable saddles.

 

[MichaelE]

It looks like a Tonepro's tailpiece to me. But I've been wrong before.

 

[markb]

That tailpiece is not compensated just like the ones on LP Juniors.

Here's an unadorned natural beauty for you (and Rocket, the saddle is compensated ).

 

[Rocket]

That tailpiece is not compensated just like the ones on LP Juniors.

Here's LP Junior. Not tailpiece... compensated, wrap-around bridge: