Here is my self-built Grand Auditorium size: scroll down to the bottom:

For article on the construction of the guitar, see transcript of Acoustic Guitar feature

To see close-ups, as follows:

The Scottish salmon skin pickguard

The salmon skin end block inlay and twin jack sockets

The thickness and action of the neck

The two-part rosewood back, finished without filling the grain

The guitar seen next to a Martin D-18, for scale (shown just after making, before applying further wax finish, and before it was signed by Duck Baker)

Hear some sound clips: a single verse pass of Keep Your Feet Still Geordie Hinny, and some chords and notes just to give some idea of the sound.

The Northumbrian fiddle and dance tune 'Keep Your Feet Still' is my own arrangement from a Victorian music book, played on $1.50 80/20 Lights from internet budget string suppliers www.stringthis.com - great value for money! This was recorded using a good quality Sony stereo mike, close up, and is a stereo file. No EQ or effects. What you hear is just the guitar, played bare fingertips, some plucking with nails and some downward back of nail scratching (but the thumb is never used on the nail). This arrangement is actually just a thumb and 1st finger job, very easy, and doesn't even use the top E string. The bass string is dropped to D.

The chords and noodling around bit is a mono direct recording via a mike, there is no phaser used, no chorus, just bare fingers (back of nails for strumming, fingertips with very short nail for picking). This is exactly what the guitar sounds like with week-old D'Addario Custom Light phosphor bronze strings. It was recorded close miked with a Creative Labs computer microphone costing under $20.

Both are unmodified files transferred to my Mac from a Sony Minidisk model 50 pocket recorder.