Bear Affair 2024 Acoustic Guitar (Full Build)

The Bear Affair is an annual event that raises money for children who have suffered abuse. I was contacted in February of this year to see if I'd be willing to "donate" my time to build a guitar, as ‪@HearneHardwoodsInc‬ already agreed to donate the tonewoods. I agreed, trying to push the limits of my skill as a builder.
This OM size guitar has koa back and sides, a bearclaw spruce top, padauk accents and rosewood bridge/fretboard/headplate. The guitar will be part of a live auction May 2nd at the Bear Affair at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
The video is mostly just shop noise, with minor talking at the beginning and sound clips at the end.
2024 Bear Affair: e.givesmart.co...
Philadelphia Children's Alliance: www.philachild...
Hearne Hardwoods: store.hearneha...
#charity
#luthier
#woodworking

[@lwoklidfr]

beautiful hand made guitar😍 give away👏 give away😏

[@borgonianevolution]

Well done sir. Great thing to do a build for as well. I specially love that back on that guitar. Seeing the colors come to life when you put on the finish is just such an amazing transformation.

[@zwitchguitars]

Thanks! It was such a nice set of koa, I hope I get to build with another set of that at some point

[@usujason]

What a beautiful piece of art

[@zwitchguitars]

Thank you! Hope it brings the charity lots of money

[@usujason]

You got that Spark in the background 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@zwitchguitars]

I was tired of walking up and down the stairs when doing pickup wiring 😅

[@CMRWoodworks]

Cool stuff! Sounds great.

[@zwitchguitars]

Thanks for checking it out! Couldn’t be happier with my first completed acoustic

[@TimHopper]

Beautiful work

[@zwitchguitars]

Thank you!