Specs:
Top/back/sides/neck are figured Cuban mahogany, plantation grown in Micronesia (so it's almost Australian
). Side sound port. The neck is from the same block as the sides. The binding is ebony with bwb top/back and side purfling, ebony end graft, heel block and ebony venner on the front and back of the headstock. The bridge is Old Rio rosewood with split bone saddle and ebony bridge-pins. Scale length is 624mm (24.57"), lower bout width 335mm (13.19"), upper bout width 240mm (9.45"), waist width 205mm (8.07") and maximum body depth 95mm (3.74"). Tuners are Waverly's with ebony knobs. The finish is hand rubbed pre-catalysed lacquer over Z-poxy on the body and tru-oil over Z-poxy on the neck: 
Bracing is my usual "triabolic" with hybrid X braced back with cf flying buttress braces:
Here's the family - the original old boy in the middle, with the ladder braced version "Jack the Lad" on the right:
The owner won't be picking it up until the end of next week so I did a few recordings for her to capture the "new" sound. I did two fingerstyle pieces and some strumming to give her an idea. The strings have been on the guitar for three days and it was recorded with an AKG C1000S microphone and mxed down with flat EQ and no added effects. First, my version of Davy Graham's "Anji" played in standard tuning Capo II:
Anji
Next a ragtime piece I put together called "Candi's Rag" (Candi is the guitar's owner
), in standard tuning: Candi's Rag
Finally I strummed the chords to The Kinks "Sunny Afternoon":
Sunny Afternoon
Thanks for looking and listening.
EDIT 8th June 2009 - The server that hosted these recordings no longer exists but you can still hear Candi's Rag here on my website, it's Track 16 on the Jukebox.
