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"Nice sample to receive. I congratulate you! \n  \n \n  \nAnd yes, there is a whole lot of interesting stuff in there in the text as well as the pics.  I'm going to go slightly off-topic here - I trust the OP will forgive me - but I read the bit on page 19 where they explain how the three-piece back became a feature on the D-35 Martins with interest and this is something which, as a a luthier yourself, will strike a chord (Ho!).  There is quite a bit of crossover (for me) with the catalogue and FZF's Martin thread - having just bought a D-35 himself - because (as I mentioned in his aforementioned thread) my own very first acoustic, bought in 1980, was made by the Kiso-Suzuki Violin Company and was based on the D-35 - mainly due to the three-piece back style of construction - although the K-S has a figured maple centre with two rosewood wings in place of the rosewood trio as used by Martin; \n  \n \n  \n\n  \nReally, Dub?  That surprises me a little bit.  I don't have much experience of acoustics myself (relatively speaking) but having checked the three I do have one  - the Epi Hummingbird - is 24.75\" and both the Kiso-Suzuki and my early 1940's Antoine Di Mauro 'Modele Special Chorus' are 25.5\" which is partly why (crossover again) I think the OM Martin series would be more to my liking than the 00 / 000 style. \n  \nPip. "
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