The natural beauty thread

[kiteman]

I'll go first.

[hubberjub***]

Though I have several I could contribute I'll keep it to one. This is my 1992 Gibson Les Paul Studio. It was my first good guitar. It started out life with black paint and gold hardware. After ten years of play the paint was not holding up well so I stripped it off and finished it with several coats of tung oil which I buffed in with ultra fine steel wool.

[WackyT]

My birthday present to myself this year.



Guild/DeArmond Starfire Custom

[bigoldron]

Here's my Yamaha. It's a pretty decent little guitar!

[duhvoodooman***]

OK, I'll bite. My "transparent honey" Xaviere XV820 Tele copy:

[wingsdad]

My Natural Beauties would be most of my acoustics...sorry for eating bandwith, but some backsides are worth the look.

First, my well-worn partner since new, a '70 Guild D40NT:

The first issue of the Takamine Santa Fe Series, a '93 ESF-93...verified with Tak that its s/n makes it the 35th made of the limited run of 1,100. MIJ, solid cedar top, solid lacewood (silky oak) back/sides, turquoise eagle flying across the fretboard:

Another MIJ Tak Santa Fe, an '02 EAC38C...solid spruce top, solid rosewood b/s, natural maple body bindings, dyed turquoise for the back seam, and more Japanese inlay artistry:

My '04 Washburn NV100C is a semi-solid mahogany bodied, spruce-topped nylon string a/e:

...and finally, this little Oscar Schmidt reissue of a 1920's Washburn uke, an '08 OU-250BELL, is of solid Trembesi...some say the next koa, as that wood grows scarce:


But the absolutely most gorgeous sounding and looking acoustic (a/e) I ever owned was a Tacoma JK28C, a koa-bodied jumbo that Rocket acquired from me last year...via this thread:
Tacoma JK28C

[Spudman***]

Hagstrom Viking Deluxe

Squier Tele

Ibanez ST200


Peavey Generation EXP Double

Rogue PRS copy

[sunvalleylaw]

This is my only nat. guitar. (I am the one on the right with the hair sticking out the back of my hat. It was a Christmas performance I showed up to after skiing and just threw a hat on.) Pretty basic, but it was my first. That is my first guitar instructor there too with his D-35 that he plays beautifully with his thumb pick and fingers. I don't take lessons from him now, but we still play together some and are friends.

[ted s]

[Dauntless]

Fender "70s" Strat


Fender Lite Ash Tele


Both my Micheal Kellys




and a couple of others not shown.

[FrankenFretter***]

At the moment, the only natural beauty in the quiver:



IMHO, mahogany is not the prettiest of all woods for a natural finish guitar. Not as pretty as, say, flame maple or the like. Still, not an ugly guitar, I suppose.

[just strum]

I have this



But to be honest, when I saw the title of the thread, the beer girls came to mind.

[Spudman***]

I have this
But to be honest, when I saw the title of the thread, the beer girls came to mind.

What is that? I like the bridge. Nice design.

[just strum]

What is that? I like the bridge. Nice design.

It's a Orpheum. It's imported by Tacoma.

Mine is a OD19SWM

Closest thing I can find for you to read

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/r...m/OD24SWM/10/1

Or were you referring to the beer girls?

[just strum]

Here is some more info on the guitar - some guy named Wingsdad over at the Tacoma forum had one. Hey, wait a minute....

http://www.tacomaguitarforum.com/index.php?topic=835.0

[evenkeel]

They are all natural. Ok a bit boring.

The St. Pete herd. A Dean Sweetwood 00R and a Guild D35-NT (1975).



The Gang in Annapolis
A Martin D12-1, a Morgan Monroe M-30 and a Martin D2-R.

[Perfect Stranger]

My Agile AL-3100


My Carvin C350

[just strum]

Almost forgot my Epi PR350





I went out to buy picks and this followed me home.

[evenkeel]

My Natural Beauties would be most of my acoustics...
...and finally, this little Oscar Schmidt reissue of a 1920's Washburn uke, an '08 OU-250BELL, is of solid Trembesi...some say the next koa, as that wood grows scarce:

wingsdad,
Great looking collection. Love 'em all but that uke is really cool. : :