![]() My first kit also came with a rosewood peghead veneer, an ebony fingerboard and an ebony bridge. The kit arrives in a box roughly the size of a small combo, and contains all the key bits you’ll need to build your own acoustic The 12-fret didn’t turn out particularly well but, having been dragged from the dry heat of LA through the freezing winters of Chicago to the humidity of New York, that second Martin kit has acquired the tone and road weary grace of a fine vintage acoustic. Since then I’ve built two further acoustics – another Martin 000 kit for my niece and a 12-fret slot head kit from Stewart-MacDonald. On the plus side, Rod is putting it to much better use that I could anyway… Every time I play it since I handed it on, however, I come away kicking myself for letting him talk me into selling it – it’s matured into a gorgeous sounding guitar. I’m happy to say that it’s still going strong today, and is now in the hands of The Guitar Magazine’s Chord Clinic guru, Rod Fogg. All the way back in 2001, I built my first ever acoustic guitar from a Martin Guitar Kit – long (very long!) time readers might even remember that the process was chronicled in the pages of this very magazine at the time.
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