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Comment by Madurobob on December 24, 2011 at 11:10am

hehe - "skeleton" and "vulture".  I didn't make that connection until just now.

But, for anyone else that mentions it, yeah that was intentional.  ;)

Comment by Uncle John on December 24, 2011 at 10:55am

Gorgeous.  Love the free bird sound hole and the combo with the round sound  hole.  Like the skeleton key saddle and it kind of goes with the turkey vulture.

Comment by Madurobob on December 24, 2011 at 10:40am

In case you're wondering, yes that bird is a turkey vulture.  When he graduated high school, without my knowledge or consent, my son got a tattoo on his left forearm - a series of birds in flight down his arm.  He had just translated on his own the classic Sufi poem "The Conference of the Birds" by Attar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conference_of_the_Birds).  That moved him to get the tatoo, His explanation of the tattoo melted away my anger (its a pretty powerful message, as far as tattoos go)..

Because he grew up in North Carolina where they are *everywhere* - he chose the silhouette of a turkey vulture for the birds in the tattoo.  I mimic that in the sound hole here.