Curly Maple Sample

We were milling through some maple recently to fill some orders and stumbled upon this archtop guitar set. The minute we planed it, we knew we were onto something special, so we grabbed a camera and snapped a shot of it. Keep in mind that this is straight off the planer, no varnish or finish at all...really spectacular curl.

Martin Guitar Wood Summit

Last month, John and I headed up to Nazareth, PA for the 2nd CF Martin Wood Summit. It was good to reconnect with some of our fellow wood vendors, and we even snuck off for a bit to check out the Martin museum. Definitely an impressive collection, and we were happy to see that Adirondack Spruce was well represented. Here's a couple pics from the day, including one of our fearless leader next to Martin's millionth guitar.

Collings Inventory Pics.

Thought everyone would be interested to see a few pictures from our current inventory of custom Collings guitars. These things are really something; we hand select just a handful of Adirondack soundboards out of the thousands we produce each year and match them with a premium set of Honduran Rosewood. It's a really satisfying thing for us to be able to sit down and play these great guitars with tops that we worked up straight out of the log. As always, you can check out our website for more info. Enjoy!

Robert

www.adirondackspruce.com.

Welcome to the Old Standard Blog!

Well, we're officially embracing technology here at Old Standard, so we welcome you to the first posting of the Old Standard blog. We hope to use the blog to keep our customers updated on wood news, instrument sales, and everything in between. We have lots of requests for pictures from potential customers, so we hope to use the blog to showcase some of the really special sets we come across. Adirondack Spruce, curly maple, and Honduran Rosewood: they'll all be featured here. Keep checking back with us and thanks for visiting!