September 11th, 2001 - Custom Guitar Made for a Solder!!!

Originally, I wanted to write a special note today about not giving up, about bouncing back from most coldest, scariest, horrific odds and circumstances. I still might in the future; people are always trying to dismiss each other's dreams as not worth the effort or the time. COMPLETELY FALSE by the way. ;o)

I began searching for an all white Spanish-style acoustic electric guitar to be my main recording guitar and one that I'd do upscale gigs with. Besides my $6-700 Godin guitar, i don't have an electric or acoustic over around 250-325 range.

So, I found an ad for a custom guitar luthier in California. www.leachguitar.com    Went to his site, then fell in love with his artistic genius embedded in the woods of his guitars. Many are rare stones and I can only imagine how long this guitar took to complete. I guess i could always, ASK him. HAHA

He also has a guitar that hinges at the neck and the body for a mere $600. This is the first I've ever seen and would be the perfect replacement for the Martin Backpacker guitar. Plus these are all American Made! Awesome!

READ BELOW ABOUT THE EXACT SPECIFICATIONS!!!!   AMAZING!

"This guitar was built for my brother who is recently retired from the U.S. Army. When he first asked me to do this guitar it was not that long after 911, I can honestly say the theme originally didn't inspire me very much. Every time I tried to think about the inlays all I could see were the planes crashing into the side of the WTC. My thoughts seemed to be filled with the defeat of the day. Exactly one year after the attacks the local paper ran a special section commemorating Sept. 11, it was then that I realized the theme had to be one of victory and resilience. The challenge for me was to create 3 distinct areas that equally represented the 3 crash sites. One of the things that I noticed while doing the research for this project was the way the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crashes were almost forgotten in the overwhelming coverage of the WTC crashes. I wanted this guitar to be an example of "modern mythology" that told the complete story with equal emphasis. One of the inlays that I ended up doing that seemed out of place for some reason was "Let's Roll"... it just seemed to not fit with more artistic and subtle inlays, I even tried to translated the phrase in Latin to make it a little more artistic sounding, after much input for several internet friends I came to the now obvious conclusion that it needed to be verbatim and dead center on the guitar.

"Let's Roll" represents the moment we went from reeling from the attack to fighting back."

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