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A Deep Lake in the Making

Posted on December 28th, 2008 by Layne

This set of Madagascar Rosewood has been selected for the back and sides of a new Russell Deep Lake for a customer in Alaska. The Deep Lake is our 16″ jumbo model. This guitar will have a custom ellipse soundhole and a figured Madagascar fretboard. (The fretboard wood is shown on top.)  The binding will [...]


New Slack Key Model

Posted on December 21st, 2008 by Layne

The first Russell slack key guitar is well underway. This model was requested by a customer who specializes in slack key playing, and since there was no slack key model as yet, this has given us the opportunity to create this new model to add to the Russell Guitars lineup.  We haven’t come up with [...]