I build every Maudal Musical Machine by hand, one at a time. After working on a small tree crew for the last 6 years and while swinging around in trees playing with chainsaws I began hand picking some sweet woods - maple, walnut, ash, alder, cherry, sycamore, apricot, plum and many others which are great instrument woods and are native (or transplanted varieties) to the Claremont Ca area. So in most cases I knew the Maudal Musical Machine you're playing when it was a tree.
"I like to leave certain reminders in the guitars I build of the fact that these instruments are created from living things. Not just living, but living eco-systems in and of themselves." M cubed guitars are a fine balance between the Japanese artistic ethic of "wabi sabi" (perfection in imperfection), and the precise engineering necessary to a beautifully playing and sounding guitar