I was in a timberyard in Cork looking for some utile when I came across some large and beautifully quartersawn sapele boards. Sapele is a dark and very dense African mahogany that makes great acoustic guitars so I bought all that I could and took it back to the workshop. Although the moisture meter showed this wood to be dry I did what I always do when I bring wood home and left it to aclimatise to the workshop humidity for almost a year before cutting some back and sides. This is the first example of a sapele guitar from those boards. I matched the mahogany with a fine sitka top and made the neck from sapele and quartersawn maple. The bindings are flamed maple, the headstock and bridge Rio rosewood and I used some mother of pearl for the rosette. This was a stock guitar but it didn't stay 'in stock' for very long!