Master Guitar

In the Summer of 2004 I received a call out of the blue from Dave Wendler. I didn't know him and had never heard of him. He said, 
"I'm a luthier out of Lawrence, Kansas and I'm looking for someone in the Kansas City area to endorse my guitars. Everywhere I go and everyone I talk to your name always comes up." I thought to myself, "Yes, this is the way it's supposed to be!" He described his guitars ("electrocoustic") and I said, "I like the concept. Now what needs to happen is you send me a guitar. I'll play it on my gigs for 2 or 3 weeks and get back to you." He said, "I can do that." - and he did.

A couple of weeks later I called him back and told him what I liked and what I didn't like about his guitars. I said that if I was going to endorse him my guitar would have to be such-and-so and have such-and-so etc. He was willing. I said, "While you're at it, can you put a 7th string on there? I've been thinking about a 7-string lately, how I would tune it and what the chord shapes would look like." He matter-of-factly said, "I can do that." - and he did.

Thus we have the Wendler EuDaly Special - it also comes in a 6-string version.

I tune the 7th string to an octave below the 5th string - a low A. This is common among Jazz 7-string players. 7-string Rock players usually tune the low string to a B.