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1 The Catalog is Dead. Long Live the Catalog! Welcome! We hope you find Six years ago our catalog was half this size and we had no products listed on the web. this first all color Today, most of you order on the web, phoned orders rank a close second, and almost no edition of our one mails in an order form from the catalog. We did not make these changes, you did. catalog enticing and helpful. Whether in products, services, or procedures, we try to anticipate, not dictate, your choices. Given your trends, we even expect that someday we may print a catalog with no order form at all! Why print a catalog if there’s no order form? Catalogs are not just for ordering. Just as most of you do research on the web before phoning to place an order, and many of you call to discuss your purchase with a salesperson before ordering on the web, the catalog is a complementary source of information to help you explore and fulfill your lutherie needs so you can order intelligently. You can flip through the pages at random, hold 3 spots open simultaneously with your fingers, and use it in rooms where the phone and web are just not as comfortable! Times have changed and they continue to change quickly. So even as we improve and expand our catalog, we realize we are no longer a catalog company! This year, we waited for this catalog to announce our redesigned, vastly improved, yet $100 cheaper manual slotting system. But no more! This catalog is a snapshot in time of our products, prices, and services. From now on, the web will be our up to the minute official source of information. On the web you can (1) interact with our purchasing agent to learn which wood makes a good substitute for the wood a country suddenly stopped exporting, (2) you can redesign a guitar kit so that it matches your personal vision, and (3) you can click “new” to find our most recent products - like the manual slotting system on page 125 that really was new months ago when we started work on this revolutionary Gutenberg thing in your hands. CUSTOMER COMMENTS *CUSTOMER QUOTES ARE UNSOLICITED AND EDITED FOR BREVITY. First, I just want to thank you for your Just a short note to thank you for the Yes my package did indeed arrive today, professionalism in dealing with a small quick service and delivery of my order. and I'm so greatly impressed with the time “classical” guitar maker like me. I en- The order arrived at my door yesterday quality of the sitka spruce guitar top. Hard joy the professional relationship that I have and I must say I am extremely happy with to believe it is the cheaper grade of spruce. with you. I always get exactly what I ask the wood selection; it’s always a concern The milling is exceptional, grain pattern for and usually more! You are GREAT. when you are from the other side of the amazingly tight......Kudos......You guys are Bob Desmond planet and you rely on someone else to awesome! make a selection on your behalf. I must say Paul I just wanted to take a minute to say that quality and service was number one. THANK YOU for the fantastic service I Trevor Cole “The order we arranged via email - it have always received when ordering from Western Australia arrived yesterday - all in excellent condition. LMI, and the prompt and polite responses I am very happy and very satisfied with the I get in response to my questions. I have wood. Particularly the curly Maple! :-). used the Kit Wizard to build two guitars I really appreciate the extra mile you I have had disappointments in the past now, and I have to say, I love that feature guys are going to make sure your custom- ordering wood without handling it, but never of your website. It is one of the best ideas ers are satisfied. I have a degree in busi- with LMI. I have ALWAYS been extremely I have ever seen. I spend hours on it just ness and I’ve studied all that stuff about impressed and entirely happy (there is a playing around with ideas for future builds. how companies are doing their best to better word for it but I can’t think of it at the Anyway, thanks again for the great service. keep their customer satisfied through mar- moment) with all the wood that you guys ... All of the woods were top quality and the keting and incentives, but I can’t think of have sent me over the years. Keep up the sound that comes out of this little instru- another company (in any field) that makes good work! :-) ment can attest to that fact! me as satisfied as you guys do. I’m sure Jimi Glenister. David there are some places that sell materials South Africa Geneseo NY here in Japan, but even with extra cost of shipping and customs fee, I prefer to buy Dear LMII, Just a note to say that you are doing a from LMI, because I can trust LMI’s service I wanted to thank you for your excellent great job. You process and ship my orders and quality of materials. No marketing and service! I realized Tuesday afternoon that very quickly; everything is correct; and incentives can match the solid good ser- I was out of McFaddens spray lacquer and they’re packed the way I would pack if I vice and I’m a very happy LMI customer. needed to finish an instrument that I just were shipping to ship to myself. Thanks. Isamu Takeuchi built. I ordered the lacquer online Tues- CM-L day and sprayed the first two coats today (Thursday)!!!!! You guys are awesome. Thank you for your prompt service,I re- Just a short note to say thanks for great Lance Kouchi cieved my order on Thur. seeing as I just products, super service and the fastest ordered it on Mon., that is amazing.... I will shipping around. From the smallest item up you folks have it covered. I don’t have certainly be using your company whenever Thanks for the quick response.You guys to want what you have, because you have possable from now on. Thanks again for are great at the customer service - how did what I want- every time. Thanks. anyone build guitars before you existed? the great service. Ken Walton Joe Mitchell Joseph Mayes Email: [email protected] • 1-800-477-4437 • Overseas: 707-687-2020 • Fax: 707-687-2014 • Online at: www.lmii.com 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Mostly Woods • kits ....................................... 4 Wood grading ARTICLE ON PAGE 7 CATALOG • acoustic TOPS Suppliers to the • ADIRONDACK SPRUCE • NOMEX .........................................................12 Stringed Instrument Industry (Red Spruce) .............................................9 • PORT ORFORD CEDAR .............................12 • ALASKAN YELLOW CEDAR ......................10 • REDWOOD ...................................................13 • ENGELMANN SPRUCE ...............................10 • SITKA SPRUCE ...........................................13 TABLE OF • EUROPEAN SPRUCE .................................11 • SITKA SPRUCE, BEARCLAW ....................14 CONTENTS • HONDURAN MAHOGANY ..........................12 • WESTERN REDCEDAR ..............................14 • acoustic backs & sides • AFRICAN BLACKWOOD ............................16 • MADAGASCAR ROSEWOOD .....................24 • BLACK ACACIA • MAHOGANY, AFRICAN ...............................25 (Australian Blackwood) ............................. 16 • MAHOGANY, HONDURAN ..........................25 • BLOODWOOD .............................................16 • MAHOGANY, SAPELE ................................25 • BOCOTE ......................................................17 • MAHOGANY, BEESWING ...........................25 • BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD • MAHOGANY (Quilted Sapele) ......................26 ALTERNATIVES ...........................................17 • MALAYSIAN BLACKWOOD ........................26 • BUBINGA .....................................................18 • MAPLE, EUROPEAN & BIGLEAF ..............27 • BUBINGA - Special High Figure ................ 18 • MONKEY POD .............................................27 Zebrawood guitar, • CAMATILLO ROSEWOOD ..........................19 • OREGON MYRTLE Neal Van Slett • COCOBOLO ROSEWOOD ..........................19 (California Bay Laurel) .................................28 • CYPRESS, MONTEREY ..............................20 • OVANGKOL .................................................28 • CYPRESS, SPANISH ...................................20 • PADAUK .......................................................28 • EAST INDIAN ROSEWOOD ........................21 • PALO ESCRITO ...........................................29 • FSC CERTIFIED WOOD ..............................22 • PAU FERRO (Morado) .................................29 • GRANADILLO ..............................................22 • SOUTH EAST ASIAN ROSEWOOD ............29 • HONDURAN ROSEWOOD ..........................22 • WALNUT, BLACK ........................................30 • KAURI ..........................................................23 • WALNUT, CALIFORNIA ..............................30 • KOA ..............................................................23 • WALNUT, MAYAN ........................................30 • LACEWOOD ................................................23 • WALNUT, PERUVIAN ..................................30 • MACACAUBA ..............................................24 • WENGE ........................................................31 • MACASSAR EBONY ...................................24 • ZEBRAWOOD ..............................................31 • MACHICHE ..................................................24 • ZIRICOTE .....................................................31 • fingerboards • BLOODWOOD .............................................32 • HONDURAN ROSEWOOD ..........................35