MINT Design

This is the Yardbyrd guitar. Named that because the body and neck were made out of pine, oak, and cherry, cut down in the backyard. Fifteen years ago, after my Dad fell asleep, we made an addition for Mom. The project got involved because the yard where the addition's footprint was to be was full of trees. Rather than haul them away, we sliced them up, built a kiln on site, in which we then dried 20,000 board feet of pine oak and cherry. Twelve years later, I still had a surplus of this lumber on hand. I knocked a piece of rough sawn pine and noticed that it had an unusual "tap tone" --even at 1" thickness. That captured my imagination, wondering what would a guitar sound like if I mill this into a soundboard and put everything I understand about acoustic structure into the build. This is that guitar. It worked way better than I thought it would. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!

Hello again: I finally added my former website link to my FB wall. If you follow that, it has a link to the new site with new stuff on it. Meanwhile, I'll figure out how to correctly link from FB. Not very good at FB protocols.