The fingerboard, headstock and back inlay was hand cut, inlaid and engraved by inlay artist Landon Wiedenman of Wiedenman Custom Inlay.
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The Good Shepherd Guitar. A highly decorated instrument specially designed and created for Christian musician Marv Plank of the Kindered Spirit Band.
Based on the Jumbo shape, the Good Shepherd guitar features inlay on the top, back, fingerboard, headstock and bridge. Over 200 individually hand cut pieces of shell, wood and ivory decorate this guitar. All natural materials were carefully selected to achieve the perfect colors. Final shading was achieved with stippled engraving.
I
am proud to endorse Jim Worland Guitars. From the first minute
I opened the case I was speechless. This is the most amazing guitar
I have ever seen. The attention to detail and the craftsmanship
is Old World Standards. Jim is a builder with Old World values.
Honesty, integrity, and a pure passion for his work, Jim has crafted
the finest guitar I have ever seen or played. The neck fits me
perfectly. The action is outstanding. This combination makes this
guitar a pure pleasure to play. Then the sound. It is nothing
short of incredible. Unplugged it just rings with clear shimmering
highs, powerful mids, and the underlying bass response is fantastic.
It sounds beautiful when fingerpicking. Again very responsive
to every little nuance and dynamic my fingers do. The harmonics
are easy to hit and ring out loud and clear. When playing with
a pick it is again, nothing short of amazing. Incredible response
to the pick's attack. It goes from an explosive bark that just
rings out with a clarity I have never heard before. Then to tones
and dynamics of a clear running mountain stream. Then I plugged
it in and we had our first practice. My bassplayer and singer
both said the same thing. "It is magic". I run a fairly
complicated sytem where I split the guitar's signal. One signal
is ran thru just a parametric EQ and then straight into the board.
The other is running thru several pedals then to an Marshall Acoustic
amp and then to the board. So I am running thru 2 channels of
the board all the time. The straight clean signal is every bit
as good as the acoustic voice. Every little sound is there completely.
There is nothing I can hear that would improve it. It picks up
the dynamics of what and how I play better than anything I have
ever played. The other signal is equally impressive. The chorus,
delay, reverb all sound beautiful. The real test was the distortion
pedal. Man, it plain rocks. With the 2 channels working together
this guitar sounds huge. One other thing all the other members
of my band said was this guitar makes us play and sing better.
It just makes you step up to a whole other level. I have to say
I agree with them. It has the same affect on me.
I have to say working with Jim was a complete pleasure. This is a man that actually cares about what you want from your guitar. He is not just there to make a buck. He is there to make what you hear in your head and your heart become a reality with no compromising. He actually listens to what you ask for and then does it better than you thought it could be done. I have played/owned Taylors, Warrior, a 59 Martin D-28, and an assortment of other guitars. None of them hold a candle to the guitar Jim has produced.
-Marvin Plank, Kindered
Spirit Band, Dec 2005
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