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  • TanninTannin Frets: 4394
    Ahh, @JezWynd - the very one I ended up taking home. Thank you for your kind thoughts. I couldn't be happier with the sound, and with the way it plays. Perhaps I'll take some close-ups of it. 

    Curiously, the action is quite high by my standards but I feel no urge to change it. I generally like around 2.0 to 2.3mm (bass) and about 1.6 to 1.8mm (treble). The May is 2.7mm and 2.0mm with just the tiniest smidgeon (0.12mm) of relief and that seems to suit it for some reason. I can dig in very hard (as I love to do) and it never complains. I have no plan to change it.
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  • TanninTannin Frets: 4394
    A little bit of guitar porn to finish off with.

     

    My three Matons: left to right, WA May, Messiah 808, SRS60C (custom). Tops, Sitka, Sitka, cedar.



    And the back view: Backs: Blackwood, Indian Rosewood, Queensland Maple. Necks: Blackwood, mahogany. Queensland Maple.
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  • MellishMellish Frets: 945
    @Tannin ; 100% agree over restringing methods.

    Several methods  work and work well, too. There *are* some weird ones, though. I've seen strings going to the wrong tuners with a spider's web effect in front of the headstock - and even *that* stayed in tune :) 
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  • TanninTannin Frets: 4394
    After quite a delay when their photographer got Covid, the Acoustic Centre finally has my old 12-string up on their website. 

    https://www.acousticcentre.com.au/collections/new/products/cole-clark-fl2e-bunya-blackwood-12-string-with-case

    Some nice pictures of it there. Here are a couple I took myself. This first one from 2020: 



    And from 2021, a close-up of that gorgeous River Sheoak fretboard. (Click to enlarge.) One of these days (and quite soon) I'll get another guitar with an interesting fretboard timber sheoak again, or Mulga perhaps. 



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