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My friend John, a furniture builder and fabricator in Portland just sent me this amazing guitar stand he built for the katrina guitars.
. . . a sneak peek at the three 'Katrina' series guitars that I'd built for my fledgling non-profit, Trust Guitars. Trust will serve as a fulcrum for fostering and bridging the guitar/makers/music community with some of the other social awareness functions we're involved in. More details on that to follow, but as for the guitars themselves, each of the three Katrina guitars have necks that were salvaged from the flood in New Orleans. I'd contacted some guitar folks about procuring the necks so as to build some guitars that gave them a new lease on life- that from calamity, a new tool could be born that in the right hands could make something beautiful again (music.) I wont go so far as to say that I can build guitars, but I can cobble them together, and it's a good canvas for me to apply some paint to. I've tried to keep the colors within the unofficial New Orleans colorway- black, white & gold, and give it some patina for depth and history. Although the structure of the necks are fundamentally solid- the sound of them (having been submerged) can be best described as 'sproingy.' Not that surprising and a bit as you'd expect partially petrified wood to sound. Acoustically without the colorization of pickups, the tone can be described as a resonant, unique articulation, with a dry upper midrange emphasis, and a nasal, almost danelectro-like low end. Very 'woody' and I think, appropriate. The inimitable and prodigious Frank Bell (see here and here) expressed interest in shooting a demo video when he's in town. I couldnt be more excited about that!
more soon. see pic above for preview (pls disregard the logo for now, click to enlarge)
