Description
2018 Froggy Bottom F-14 Deluxe The Tree/Refurbish’ed Douglas Fir
This very special Froggy Bottom F-14 Deluxe was built for the Tiny house raffle house auction in 2018. The body of the guitar is built with woods that have been repurposed to create a remarkable instrument. The back and side material is Honduras Mahogany from a tree that was harvested in 1965, legendary in guitar-building circles it is known simply as ‘The Tree.’
Repurposed from a large slab table built from ‘The Tree,’ the back and sides are visually and sonically magnificent examples of what made this tree legendary. They are singularly beautiful, once-in-a-lifetime quality, quilted mahogany.
Matched in age, the soundboard for the guitar is Douglas Fir, cut from repurposed gym seats taken out of a school in Pennsylvania!
These materials give the guitar a complex and powerful voice. The instrument responds to nuanced finger picking or hard-driving bluegrass with equal ease. It will be equally at home with either light or medium gauge strings, as you prefer.
Like all our DeLuxe Grade guitars, this F-14 features a bound headstock; our #3 fretboard inlays; Paua abalone rosette ring and back seam inlay; and it is bound with heavily-figured bigleaf maple.
The guitar’s crowning appointment is the very last mammoth ivory heelcap engraved by fine artist Petria Mitchell. Petria retired from engraving four years ago and we’ve been saving this last, vibrant piece – a powerful grizzly bear – for a special instrument. In this guitar, it found a home. It’s in excellent condition.
