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TARANTULA
90 years old
Brazilian rosewood B&S. 270 years old DOUBLE TOP Sinker redwood top,
640mm, radius, armrest, soundport, BRONZE Marquetry... WOW !!!
This instrument
will leave you and anyone who will have the luck to see and hear her in
total AWE ! That's how fabulous she is. An amazing 90 years old set of
Brazilian rosewood I received from Rio de Janeiro.... It has the perfect
shape of a tropical tarantula depicted in the grain and this adds to
the beauty and rarity of this set of Brazilian rosewood. I matched it with
a set of Sinker redwood of approximately 270 years of age and decided to
give her flashy edging using bronze for the binding as well as for the
bridge and headplate details.
The sound is INCREDIBLE.... listen
to the clip to have an idea of how powerful she sound sand keep in mind
that I have to do no effort whatsoever to put out this amount of sound....
The volume is kept even and strong at the same amount of plucking all the
way to the 19th fret (a characteristic of double tops) and the sustain
and power are UNBELIEVABLE.
The action is easy and fast on the
slim neck with a 640mm radiused action...
All in all, the best guitar available
on the market today at an amazing price....
Sinker logs
like the ones above, are pulled from the bottom of lakes and rivers. Sometimes,
scuba divers are needed to achieve the extraction. Most of these
logs are hundreds of years old (In one of the pictures above, you can see
that the tree was cut with an hatchet). Due to a series of factors (The
logs were too big and heavy to be pulled out of the rivers or the logs
were caught by currents and were sucked to the bottom) these logs
were trapped by the muddy buttons of these water beds and this created
like a time capsule where the wood was preserved in fantastic humidity
conditions that made the wood season in a slow natural way during many
centuries. Some of the logs are selected for musical instruments construction.
The sound that these woods produce is unique and the grain has a beautiful
coloration that changes according to the type of mud present in the water
bed.
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