RE: OT: Update on my mini jazz archtop guitar ("The Little Mammoth")

["Dave Gallaher" <micdave@hiwaay.net>]

The guy who works on my guitars fixes and modifies a lot of expensive
Martins, Taylors and other such acoustics, so he keeps fossil ivory around.
When I took my early 1990s Gibson Flying V to him to change the tuners (I
play slide on it, using 13-60 gauge strings and the old tuners gave out), 
he
also installed a mastodon tusk nut, similar to what you are describing.  It
really helps the open strings to ring out nicely and has been on there a
good while.

I was there when he was making the nut--sure made a weird smell on his drum
sander...

dave 
 
micdave@hiwaay.net 


Interesting! Small hollow-body guitars are nice. I have played the
Ibanez Georg Benson model a lot and think it's awesome. This was an
old post of Kris' pen that bounced back into the loop - will you post
a follow up? How does the Little Mammoth do now when it's finally out
there making noise in your hands?

Per

>> http://www.krispenhartung.com/mini-jazz-guitar/index.htm
>>
>> An excerpt that really makes this guitar special....
>>
>> "The story behind this nut is just amazing and mind-blowing. A friend of
>> Bobby's from Alaska sent him a good size chunk of Woolly Mammoth tusk,
which
>> you can see below. Just to jog your memory, mammoths went extinct 
>roughly
>> 10,000 years ago. Hence, the ivory nut on this guitar is an actual
artifact!
>> I was born in Alaska, and because of this, the size of the guitar, and
its
>> "big guitar sized" tone reported by Bobby, I named the guitar the "The
>> Little Mammoth.""
>>
>> Kris