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1994 Randy Wood Custom 0000 Cutaway Koa/Adirondack (Red)
This Randy Wood 0000 is wonderfully unique from the tone to the appointments; all speak to a rockin’ vintage vibe. The Koa back and sides are evenly colored and figured in two directions, and the Adirondack Spruce top is tight grained and aged to a warm, amber color. Tonally, this guitar has all the great “bark” of Mahogany, but with clarity and wholeness of sound thanks to twenty years of maturity and Randy’s decades of experience working as a luthier and repair artist working for some of the biggest names in Nashville, Tennessee.
Randy was ahead of his time in returning to the traditional roots of the craft by constructing this guitar entirely with hide glue. Playability is top notch for both the fret hand and the picking hand–this guitar is as light as a feather with a crisp projection!
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.31 in Nut Width 1.78 in String Spacing 2.31 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Koa Add to Compare1993 Randy Wood Dreadnought Brazilian/Adirondack (Red)
If Randy Wood lays his hands on your damaged instruments, you know that soon it will sound better than when it was new. If you, on the other hand, get to lay your hands on one of his instruments, you know that soon your songs are going to sound better than brand new! This Brazilian-Rosewood-and-Adirondack-Spruce Dreadnought we’ve got in the shop today has got more energy than a steam engine, and boasts a gorgeous pre-war aesthetic that’ll be the envy of every Bluegrass picker you know. One of five guitars that Randy built as copies of a certain Herringbone Dreadnought, this 1993 Dreadnought is perfect for the flatpicker looking for an enormous voice with lots of rumble in the bass.
Be it solos or chords, this guitar absolutely kills it–the projection is fearsome, and if you listen at the right moments you can pick up some gorgeous treble overtones fit to melt your heart. We had a go with a few songs, and found this Dreadnought provided excellent accompaniment, if you were prepared to sing a bit louder, and with a thumbpick the bass notes had a fat, juicy snap! to them that’s perfect for Blues.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.38 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.13 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Rosewood - Brazilian
Long ago, surnames came to be in order to provide a family’s place of origin or the patriarch’s trade, and in the case of Randy Wood, the surname has served as creator of destiny: Wood’s father was a carpenter and a woodworker. His dad, along with some of his uncles, also loved music; the family played and sang together, adding another element to Randy’s future course. Fast forward: by the early 1970s, Randy had built a mandolin for Bill Monroe, added inlay work to Johnny Cash’s and Elvis’ guitars, been 1/3 of the trio that started what eventually became the now-famous Gruhn Guitars, and opened the original Old Time Pickin’ Parlor in Nashville.
Wood sold the business in 1979 — and he and Irene moved back to Georgia. For 22 years, they lived on the Isle of Hope; Wood considered himself semi-retired, and ran a woodshop, and a small mail-order business, out of the garage (“As long as UPS can find me, I’ll be all right”).
As more and more people moved into the area, however, he began to yearn for something more “rural.” Ten years ago, he bought four acres on Highway 80, built a house, a workshop and a retail store.