George:
 
Congrats!  Beautiful instrument.  As a fellow Alembic 12 string player, we are perhaps the most unique subset of this club.  I'll bet it sounds incredible!  A very deserving choice.  I suspect you'll have new wallpaper on your computer tomorrow.
 
Bill tgo

Congratulations George. That's probably the most beautiful guitar I've ever seen (sorry Bill).  
 
graeme

Very nice George.  Beautiful instrument!  Congratulations.
Play it healthy!
Art

Seconded from another Scottish guy!
 
G

Beautiful!!!
 
The video of Kottke playing Louise was pretty cool too!!

Just beautiful - a 12 string baritone guitar!!!  I can only imagine how it sounds.
 
Wow!!!

Thanks for the appreciative words, folks, but I think the credit has to go to the builders :-)!
 
As for the wallpaper, Bill, I've had it up for several weeks.  I suspect you might have had a similar experience....
 
One mid-January morning I found a message from Mica in my email queue with the subject Featured Custom.  She said she was planning on featuring the baritone in February.  We exchanged a few more emails, one of which had a link to the unpublished draft page---from which I grabbed the wallpaper.
 
It was strange in the last week of January and the first week of February, waiting for it to be published.  I felt like I could foretell the future.  When it finally appeared, it took me a moment to realize it.
 
So....  If my experience is any guide, one of you out there can look forward to an email from Mica in just about a week.  Your challenge will then be to keep things to yourself until the March COTM appears.
 
Rami, as for how it sounds, well, it can sound pretty dang authoritative :-).  Since it's tuned B E A D F# B, I can drop the low string down to A for a drop A tuning.  That low A is the same pitch as the A on a bass.  When I play it that way through my Acme Low B4, it's all there, in spades.

Bill, you have played this instrument. This is the one I was raving about the sound of, and made you play it.
 
(Had to twist his arm real 'ard, I did!)

Hi Jason!