Jumbo with sitka spruce top, curly koa back and sides

This Jumbo model was built as a fingerstyle performance guitar. It has a koa back and sides with a sitka spruce top and a sharp cutaway. Some comments from the owner after picking up his new guitar:

Jim, thanks again for the fine work! Sorry I couldn’t stay longer: it promised to be a long day and I finally pulled in here at 4:45 totally exhausted. But Taylor people will tell you that you only need 30 seconds to tell whether a guitar is any good or not, and yours blew me away in15! I can tell you right now that it’s at least as good if not better than my 510! I may take it up to the jam session on Tuesday in Coopersville if the weather permits. Again thanks! rdw

Yah, I figured you meant “with it”. I hope to do that in the spring when I re-record a couple of tracks off my first CD. In the mean time, I finally got around to playing it this afternoon, what with church and letting it “climatize” and I would say it’s FANTASTIC, INCREDIBLE, THE BEST THING I’VE EVER PLAYED! Did I get that emphatic enough? It reminds me of a D-35 I played many years ago at my buddy’s store the day I bought my Guild instead – couldn’t afford the Martin. It just took the place of my 414 on Double Drop D and I’m putting that up for sale ASAP so I can get the Breedlove by Christmas. Best of wishes for the upcoming holidays – RDW