This guitar is my 16th. It was built as a gift for my church. Maranatha Fellowship Church in St Albans WV.
The Back and sides of this guitar are Olive Wood from Isreal. It is all bookmatched and the back strip, binding , and end graft are, appropriately, Bloodwood.
The top wood for this guitar is Lutz Spruce which is a hybrid of White Spruce and Sitka Spruce.
A side view showing the Bloodwood Binding
The end graft and back binding is outlined with alternating black/white/black strips with mitered corners
My logo inlaid in Bloodwood and the crown of thorns and partial face of Jesus is done in Ebony. The blood drops are red coral
The fingerboard inlay of the Ichthus fish pierced by a cross made of nails with drops of blood. The nails are maple and are etched for detail and the fish and blood are Red Coral.
The soundhole rosette is a crown of thorns. It is outlined on both the inside and outside with 6 thin alternating black/white/black accents and the innermost ring is red. You have to look close. The black background is Ebony and the vine is Maple. The thorns are Gold mother of pearl. There is also a Fishman Matrix Blend pickup installed and the controls are accessible through the top of the soundhole.
The Tuners are gold Gotoh 510 midsize. The neck is handcarved from a single piece of Spanish Cedar