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Originally Posted by targa911S View Post
so what happens to the confiscated instruments? Beautiful guitar!
You never see them again. They are used as "educational material" by the gubment. No doubt, "educational material" means "given to border agents to learn an intsrument"



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Originally Posted by craigster59 View Post
Beautiful guitar Wolfe! So what would have triggered a CITES dilemna, is that Honduran mahogany or is the fretboard rosewood (looks ebony to me)?
Rosewood. And Honduras mahogany. And they probably would have freaked out over the inlays too.. I'm pretty sure the headstock script is Abalone, which they've been freaking out about because there's no way to tell where it comes from.
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