Guitar donation to the Fostering Faith Foundation’s Charity Event & Silent Auction so that they may continue granting Foster Children’s Holiday Wish Lists while being able to provide clothing, assistance with needed items, scholarships and more throughout the year as well.
• Four String Acoustic • Natural Finish • Chrome Hardware • Walnut Fret Board • 25” Scale with Zero Nut • Reinforced Neck Design (1/8″ steel rod) • Spruce Top • Birch Back • Floating Bridge (Maple with Notched Ebony Top) • D’Addario Tenor Guitar Strings • Chicago Tuning (D=32) (G=22) (B=14) (E=10)
Number 15 is a classic Flintwood Heritage build but with some requested custom changes. The customer wanted all black walnut neck, back, and sides with a red cedar top. Mixed with the French polish it made a fantastic rustic look. I also adjusted the scale from 25″ down to 23″ for lower string tension. The outcome feels very nice and I think that I will continue the 23″ scale for future 4-string builds.
A luthier bending iron can be expensive. Here is a cheap alternative in case you wanted to experiment with wood bending for your next cigar box guitar or small folk instrument project.
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Flintwood Guitars: Handcrafted folk and blues instruments designed to be simple and fun. Created in the styling of cigar box and folk instruments, Flintwood guitars offer a fresh new tone to add to your collection.
Picture a lonely woman walking out of a restaurant. She has just been stood up. On her sooner than expected walk home she pulls a young man from the street just before he is hit by a car. She embraces him with blind compassion and tells him to be careful. 20 years later he is a renowned doctor and local figure. An older woman visits his ER one night after being hit by a car. He saves her life, only to realize that many years ago, she had already saved his. They once again embrace. Around every corner, there is an opportunity to love someone and we never know when that love may return to us. We are all connected in this great ebb and flow for reasons we may not understand, but when we give, sometimes we find a piece of the puzzle.
Lyrics:
Time, you know our time is gonna leave us Time is something that we cannot hold Someday we’re gonna find the mystery When we walk, that lonesome road
The feeling of a moment or a memory Both as true as how they came to be Still it seems we find ourselves forgetting Who we are, and what that means
But this strange love, it has it’s reasons For the time that we share This strange love, it never leaves us And we know its always there
Heart and soul, a river to an ocean One is life, the other how we live With every turn we’re bound to face the mystery That who we are, is what we give
But this strange love, it has it’s reasons For the time that we share This strange love, it never leaves us And we know its always there
Credits:
Recorded and Produced by: Evan Hinshaw, Shane Young Written by: Shane Young, Evan Hinshaw
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Everyone is a captain of their own ship. At some point, even the best Captains can get lost. Everything from the current to the crew can influence our direction, but in the end, we must find our own way home.
Will you ever find the freedom that you’ve been aching for?
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