Lutehole sound hole covers for Acoustic Guitars

My Fellow web dwellers, I finally broke down and bought myself my 3rd, but 1st custom, well 1st (2) custom Lute Hole Sound covers...

I first saw Lutehole products while browsing the now extinct "House of Guitars" (RIP Or old awesome guitar neighborhood shop!) I thought WOW! These things are gorgeous, how do they work..? Well I learned quickly that for the $30 instead of $10-12 for the standard rubber Feedback Buster they are a little more friendly on the fingers when strumming and don't make the guitar go as dead.. but look a WHOLE LOT BETTER! Snap! Literally.. I snapped 2 trying to get them in and retro fit one to fit my Ramirez 2CWE Spanish Guitar. I ended up ruining oh..? 4 or 5 various Feedback Busting mechanisms trying to adapt them for the Ramirez and finally just settled on the heavy rubber for my 1991 Takamine FP360s Making it quite dead sounding... but hey. NO Feedback.

Fast forward from oh 2002 when all those adventures started to a few weeks ago. I ordered the Custom Luteholes, and got an incredible deal on a Taylor 616ce for about half price. I paid a LOT extra for both of my new Lutehole covers, because I was trying hard to match the wood of the guitars. Spruce = Mo Money! Mahogany (the closest to the red cedar on the Ramirez) = Mo Money! It takes quite a while and they come in. During that time.. I played at 2 or 3 open mics on a SMALL stage in a LOUD venue.. so by this time I was absolutely certain.. I'd NEVER need a soundhole cover for the Taylor.

HEY! It fits and if the Takamine wasn't 20 years old.. the wood would match PERFECT! So I thought.. how will the Ramirez do.. so I plug it into my Line 6 POD X3 Live and Mackie MR8's and crank it to feedback misery. I then drop in my Dove Design Mahogany and VOILA!! AIIIEEE!! or I guess most appropriately.. BRAVO!!! BRAVO!!! No feedback. That got me to thinking about my old friend "Toni Takamine" there.. but that's for another post.. I got a CTP-2 "Cool Tube" preamp and that baby is SWEET sounding now! Better than I ever imagined.

Back to the Ramirez... I've had this wonderful guitar for 10 years, never being able to play it plugged in anywhere near a loud stage because of Feedback.. FINALLY it has a GORGEOUS Feedback Buster that FITS! and WORKS WELL!!!! This coming Tuesday.. I'm bringing it out to an open mic.. and see if it REALLY passes the test. I am quite confident, however.

Yay! Lutehole!