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FOR SALE- Mermaid guitar. Half the proceeds go to Harvest Help. (See LINKS)
- The siren sings.......Now with Headway HE2 pickup in the bridge (SEE LINKS). At last after a long and fruitless search she has an appropriate amplified voice.

- Head carved from lime, completely hollow, varying in thickness from 1/4" to 1/16".

- Eye lashes also lime.

- What's that sound...?

- The hair is willow.


- The ear is English sycamore with abalone stud.

- Nice coiffure!




- The hand is lime, the comb is African black wood, pernambuco and amber.

- One thumb nail of tortoiseshell from a broken antique.


- Butterfly, Burr elm and sycamore.


- Bridge, sycamore and snakewood.

- Seahorse tail piece carved from English sycamore with abalone eye.

- Abalone cap to the end of the seahorse's tail.

- Don't let go!!!!

- Back and arms of American cherry.



- Guitar neck of Canadian maple with laminates of Cuban mahogany, walnut and satinwood.

- Waverly tuners, naturally! Black Tahiti pearl buttons.

- Scales of English sycamore.


- Signature in the birdseye maple heel cap. Morher of pearl in black Tahiti pearl.

- A nut......

- Shouldn't fall off.....!

- Another nut....

- ....and if there's a heel, there should be toes....

- ....anyway it's a gargoyle actually. There's always one somewhere around.......

- ......just in case we get too comfortable!

- See what I mean? Here's a ceramic one by Claerwenn. There's a nice book by Fstop Fitzgerald with great photos of them all over Europe.

- From the book of Tao. Means "Music" or "Joy".

- Nice birdseye maple fingerboard. Hand, flesh, courtesy of Jiff.


- Figured mahogany facing veneer.

- Chinese character meaning "Chaos", actually "The watery void from which life can emanate".

- !?!?






- Tail, American cherry and English sycamore.
