wow Denis that's a nice collection, love the purplehart birdseye and the walnut birdseye and the koa doored one, all were on my radar. I wish I could have gotten 3 but I was stretching it a bit at 2. also I really had no idea I'd love them anywhere near as much as I do.
tonight I sanded my fiddleback black walnut down a bit and man what a difference. the natural wood finish is really spectacular. funny how I originally thought I wanted urethane and now I really don't even like the urethane. don't like the smell and the way it shines looked almost fake to me, almost like it was plastic. I really liked my natural finish ebony one so much better than the fiddleback when I first got them, but now that I stripped the fiddleback I can't believe how much more I like it, now I think I love them both equally. I'm amazed that I got 2 absolutely beautiful woods without even being able to even see what the main mod body even looked like before hand. I hold these 2 and think I got so lucky, these are probably 2 of the most beautiful mods out of this whole batch, but then I think hey, wait a minute, I bet everyone holds theirs and thinks the same thingI'm still always going to miss that rosewood that got away though
I'm really shocked at how much I love these. it's almost illogical for me, I really should like and appreciate the metal mods more. wood is soft and weak and delicate and logic should tell me I'm much better off with a metal mod, I never really had any love for wood anything but all of that goes away when I look at and hold these things. today I ran out of juice in my woody and I went so far as to take the juice out of my metal reo just so I can continue to use the woody. the shape and feel and look is just so damn good that I really love them so much more than I ever thought I could
I feel you - my metal REO's have been ignored since my Woodvils arrived. I'm sort of, well, in love with them!
I want to sand my poly, but I'm skeered I might mess it up! But the feel of the natural oil is amazing!
