Three Sister Guitars

Three Sister Guitars.

Introduction:

I have located some incredible wood: a few planks of black Korina (actually, the more figured version called Limba), and some brutally bold flamed Maple. These planks simply beg to be made into very special guitars. Wood like this is becoming more and more scarce, and difficult to come by.

With the ‘Mick Taylor’ La Llama guitar gone, I need a new personal guitar, to play, to perform with, and of course for demonstration purposes. The plan is now this:

The Plan:

I will build three A-Series La Llama guitars, alongside each other, with this exceptional wood. They will receive an engraving on the rear plate of a beautiful lady, and an inscription that bears witness to the fact that they are “three sisters”.

My personal guitar is finished and has an engraving of my wife, Belen Oliva-Bermudez.

When you buy one of the A-Series Sister guitars, you may decide which lady you wish me to engrave on yours (provided you send me a good picture of her, from head to feet.)

S-Series also:

I will also make three S-Series La Llama guitars, three S-Series sisters, to go along with the A-sisters. The S-Series Sister guitars will have a laser engraving on the rear plate like my personal guitar.

Wood and Tone:

Korina is a very musical wood, tonally close to Mahogany, but with a little more ‘snap’ to it. Limba is a version that carries traces of wood infected by beetles. The reaction of the wood to the beetle results in some excuisite figuring of the wood. Not often is there black Korina that is suitable for the Electric Gypsy (weight-wise). To quote one of our wood suppliers: “Black Korina is all over the place”…

The original 98 Flying V’s that Gibson made in 1958 were all white Korina, a better behaved but less figured wood. In keeping with the wild spirit of the Electric Gypsy guitar, I will use the temperamentfully figured black Limbo, on both A-Series and S-Series guitars.

To order the available Three Sisters guitars: