This is my new weissenborn style guitar. It sounds beautiful and looks even better in person. I played traditional guitar for about 10 years and then gave it away for a few years. Until last year I was at a pub on the Gold Coast (Australia) and saw a band called the Mason Rack Band. They are an awesome blues band and their guitarist/singer plays a weissenborn. I instantly fell in love with the sounds he was getting out of the guitar. I went and saw him play the following week and decided to get back into playing guitar and went out and bought a cheap lap steel guitar. I started listening and playing (well trying to play) other artist that play slide such as, Xavier Rudd, John Butler Trio, Jeff Lang and Ben. I have been saving up for a few months to purchase a weissenborn, and just recently bought this guitar from Tim Kill Custom guitars. Tim is an Australian luthier who makes some unique instruments. The guitar is finished in iron particles then acid is applied to give the guitar the rusted look. It also has an elephant inlay. Anyway I love this guitar and thought I would share it with yas.

This is my go to Acoustic guitar, I have owned this for 12 years, It an Aussie guitar called a Maton (Ben has played these guitars thought his career), To say that I love this guitar is an understatement, it has travelled the world with me, and has a great tone due to all the exposed wood form years of playing.

A few years ago, after attending a Harper show, an artist friend of mine decided that she would do a cool ‘guitar tattoo’ on my Maton with sharpie, I left my guitar with her and a day later she had drawn this awesome design on my Guitar, that makes this guitar even more awesome and special to me!

This a the SK8GTR, a Lap Steel we've done with some spare parts and a real skateboard. Sounds great as it looks.I've helped with the concept, but the real designer was Kleber Borges. We both play guitar in the Brazilian rock band Tibone - http://bit.ly/9UI4rz If you want to see more pictures, go to http://bit.ly/dnKZe9 You can hear it at http://bit.ly/aMtpvy Hope you'll like it.

one day early in 1990 i was out and about in london's west end with a young lady i guess i was trying to impress. i was only window shopping but we went into rose morris music store in denmark street and i wanted to try out an ovation, having played one backstage a few weeks earlier when some friends of mine were playing a gig. the assistant gave me 3 differently priced models to try. i sat down in the booth with the first (obvioulsy the most expensive) and began fooling around - i got completely lost in it and it must have been 15 minutes before i glanced up again to discover i'd attracted a small crowd - and the young lady was more than impressed. it felt to me that the instrument was playing me as much as i playing it. i immediately put a deposit down with a credit card and spent the next month raising the £1000 i needed to buy it. 20 years later it is still the best impulse purchase i've ever made - it is still my first choice instrument at home (despite all the other nice guitars i've bought since)
- and i thank the young lady (long since lost in my personal history) for the motivation to walk into the shop.

- martin (fingers flynn) coult

My name is Sarah and like many of you, music makes our heart beat. For me, I have always found that music has a healing power. But not until recently, did I fully realize that. My Mom had a stroke the day after Thanksgiving 2009, and my home that was once Los Angeles, California quickly turned back to East Lansing, Michigan - spending a winter in the midwest. Taking the next flight out of CA, I flew home to be with Mom, soon to realize that I was moving home for good to be by her side.
She spent 8 weeks in the hospital recovering, through miraculous high points, yet treacherous low points. But we made it through, and not a day passed that I didn't play my guitar for her.
My Mom lost her speech due to the stroke, yet singing Ben's lyrics would come out crystal clear! Ben's musicianship and talent has inspired me ever since I first picked up a guitar 11 years ago, and this experience brought a new light to the power of music. Ben has helped me become a better musician and artist.

This baby got me in trouble with the Mrs. It's a Fender American Deluxe V-Neck, Honey Blonde. Prior to locating "the" one, I was having trouble deciding between this finish and the Candy Apple. Late one night my wife came into my office/studio/den while I was searching for images of the guitar to aid in my finish decision. I made the error of simply typing "honey blonde" in the search field. As my wife came in, up came all these images...none of them were guitars, and none of them included clothing.

She still gives my "honey blonde" Strat the evil eye when she walks past it, hanging on the wall.

This guitar is only a cheap strat, but its personally signed by the great Eddie Vedder. I'm a massive pearl jam fan, so I love this guitar (mainly just to look at really). But I just put a deposit on a new weissenborn guitar. So I will upload that when I get it. I'm excited!!!

The summer of 2008 I decided that I was spending a lot of money on guitars... and I thought to myself If i learned to build guitars then i could have many! without the huge price tags!! So i probably spent twice as much on tools and books, and materials then any high priced Martin! BUT...in the end there is nothing like recording an original song from an original guitar. Something about that process to me is amazing and priceless. It took the summer to do but it gave me a new found respect and appreciation towards instruments and music. She has an adirondack spruce top... cocobollo back and sides..ebony fingerboard and bridge...maple binding... bone apointments... Cant wait for the next one!