This is Dhyan’s guitar.  Dhyan is a cool dude.  Laid back, super friendly, service-full, teaches meditation, plays in kirtan and likes to play guitar.  I guess that last one is a no-brainer, me being a guitar builder and all.  I suppose I could write about super irritating people who have no Love for music or guitars and are genuinely depressing; some (or all) politicians come to mind….  But alas, I digress, so where was I?  Oh yeah, Dhyan’s guitar.

Well Dhyan’s guitar is pretty straight forward.  A mahogany back and sided dreadnought with a sitka spruce top and a Spanish cedar neck topped with a maccassar ebony fingerboard.  A bone nut and a bone saddle set into a maccassar ebony bridge.  The scale length is 24.750 and the nut width is 1 11/16.

I used tortoise binding with combinations of w/b/w and b/w/b purflings.  It was my first time using tortoise for the end wedge.  I really like the aesthetic look of the plastic tortoise wedge.

This is the second guitar I’ve finished with a water based lacquer.  And, well, meh.  I mean, I think the finish came out nicely.  It’s just that it seems kinda “plastic-y”.  New finish is supposed to burn in well which I did not have much luck with; and that can make touch up work a bit of a bother to say the least.

All in all, I am really happy with how this came out.  A classic shape and classic tone woods make for a real nice sounding guitar.  No wonder people have been using this combination for so long….