Laurie in his workshop, examining the back of guitar no.13 made in 2013 using Black Walnut from a tree planted by Queen Victoria in Kew Gardens.
By way of a departure from my usual acoustic guitars, here's my latest guitar #23 - a solid body, 5-string, fretless electric bass - built for my own use. The body is cherry, faced with black walnut. The neck is quarter-sawn maple with mahogany splices and the head is faced with some old English walnut. The fingerboard is birds-eye maple, inlaid with rosewood veneer to mark the fret positions. A pair of EMG active pickups, both Jazz and Precision, are fitted.