This one-of-a-kind instrument was crafted in close collaboration with one of our customers who had lived through the Colorado Cal-Wood Fire in 2020.  They not only demanded excellent tone, build quality and feel, but also remembrance of the fires that impacted 1000's of people in our community.

The tailpiece is a Born custom design, and we made it out of reclaimed green ash from the Colorado Marshall fire that burned down over 1,000 structures, impacted over 37,000 residents, and ultimately amounted to the nightmarish crescendo of massive forest fires that teared through North America from 2020 to December of 2021.  Green Ash is not known as an instrument wood, but we were able to find a nice quartersawn ,hard-grained piece out of a partly burned timber. Green Ash is light in color, similar to maple, and so making a black tailpiece to match the guitar was not simple.  We developed a modified Japanese Shou Sugi Ban wood burning technique to preserve the strength of the wood and blacken the tailpiece to a charcoal black. The tailpiece has a gloss finish and natural feel.