Thanks! I've been looking on and off for some time and saw a few CE3's with asking prices in the $1500-2000 range, plus a few crazy high prices. But I don't know the guitars well enough to know whether the high prices were for limited edition or custom instruments or if they were just shots in the dark. I'm mainly wanting to make sure this is a standard production instrument that happens to have a flashy top, and not something rare enough to tempt a collector or some such if I go high when I finally put it up for sale.
Is there a way to post photos? I don't see how right off, but it may be because I'm new to the forum and don't have enough posts yet to have attachment privileges. I'm guessing the original post photos were links that are long gone - wish I could see them. Most of this guitar is going to look just like you'd expect, but the top is pretty spectacular - 2-piece curly koa with a very strong regular figure, top piece with a strong drift from heart- to sap-wood. Probably quartersawn or near to it, as the curl is very bold. Clear finish, so the curl leaps out at you. I wish I had some of that wood hanging out in the back of my shop <g>... It's very a really cool guitar - I'd love to hang on to it just to look at it and play it every so often, but we've gotta thin out the collection. I was a luthier for years, and we have violins, cellos and viola da gambas, plus several guitars.