Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Curly Sinker Redwood top Concert guitar. December 26, 2011.

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120 year old, Highly figured Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced Curly Sinker Redwood top. 640mm, 20" Radiused Ebony fingerboard, Luxury marquetry on all sides, Gold plated carved tuners. Brazilian Rosewood armrest and decorated bridge, Cocobolo bindings. Double soundport in Upper left bout & complementary tear shaped soundport on the indented cutaway. Embossed leather case included. Stunning!
Powerful sound, amazing sustain and presence, perfect separation of voices are the type of adjectives you can only attach to the perfect guitar. Such is the case with this amazing Hauser braced Brazilian Rosewood concert beauty. The sound she puts out is relentless and playing Asturias makes me feel as though I am in command of an orchestra that has no limits whatsoever as to the repertoire she can tackle... In Barrios' Una Limosna, every geniality of the Paraguayan composer is right at my fingertips to sculpt the music. Simply put, amazing ! The set of Brazilian Rosewood is air dried at least since 1891... it possesses all the mature qualities of long seasoned wood. The grain is fabulous, perfectly bookmatched and with a figure to die for. The top is made from a one in a million set of highly figured Curly Sinker Redwood. The grain on this set is stunning ! An amazing array of reds and oranges and it gives this beauty a touch of unique natural artistry. The most delicate handmade marquetry defines and decorates each one of her beautiful lines and I used every idea and concept available to elevate her to masterpiece level. Gold plated tuners, double headplate, triple neck reinforcement truss rod.
Playing Asturias and Una Limosna made me feel as if I was discovering the pieces for the first time. The ease of play, the slim neck and the indented cutaway make access easy and without requiring changes in the presentation of the wrist well up to the F# on the first string (Fret 14), thus covering the 14 most used frets on a classical guitar. Amazing power give me a control on the sound that keeps me in awe as I play on her. The bass is penetrating and send huge vibrations throughout my body and throughout the studio. Her trebles are clear and she breathes freshness and maturity in the sound and this is a quality that only few instruments can show.

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The 9 braces Hauser fan is the most thoroughly tested fan brace setup on the planet. It is the result of many years of experimenting. It is braced on Torres 4 fan brace design. The braces act as sound vibrations highways...they carry the vibration of each string to a specific spot on the soundboard. If you put your fingers on the soundboard as you play the 6th string for instance, you will feel the upper portion of the top vibrate with more power than the rest of the top. You will be able to feel this vibrations with your fingertips all the way to the 4th strings. It is harder to feel the vibration caused by the treble strings. The variations on the 9 braces fan is enormous. Luthier taylor each fan to achieve a specific sound and match the instrument with the rest of the woods used in the construction. Above to the left is a 9 braces all Spruce fan. I often use a mixture of Cedar, Spruce and Mahogany to match different wood combinations.

650 mm or 640 mm?
Keep the following rule at hand: If the distance between the tip of your thumb and the tip of your little finger is equal or less than 9 in. when fully stretched, use 640 mm. In stringed instrument performance, a single millimeter can mean the difference between playing effortlessly or the exact opposite.

Sinker logs, 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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120 year old, Highly figured Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced Curly Sinker Redwood top

Radiused or flat fingerboard?
The radiused fingerboard has been around the acoustic and the electric guitar since day one. The same is true for most instruments of the Stringed family of instruments (violas, violins cellos, bass). Radiusing (image above) makes barre and left hand stopping A LOT easier. The only drawback is that you will NEVER want to play a flat fingerboard after that. If you are having your custom guitar built, I am all pro radiusing the fingerboard. The standard fingerboard is flat.

120 year old, Highly figured Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced

120 year old, Highly figured Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced

Optional Velvet guitar cover (USD 35)

PROTECTIVE GEAR

These attractive hand sawn velvet guitar covers are very useful if you like to leave your instrument out of the case for long stretches of time. They are a great solution to avoid scratches during practice from the friction of buttons with the finish. To use it while playing, use it in the position shown to the right.
These are hand sawn by the wife of my Leather cases embosser.
OPTIONAL ADJUSTABLE SADDLE BONE
Adjustable-saddle-bone
When ordering a guitar, every player will ask me to set the action as low as possible without any buzzes... Since every player applies different amount of strenght when plucking the strings it is impossible to set the action precisely to each player's will. The Spanish builder Fleta, had come up with this genial idea which consists of pushing the bone more or less into the groove on the bridge. The player would set the action to his liking and then either cut off the excess or keep it intact in case he decided to lower or raise the action depending on humidity conditions etc. On request, I can prepare a Fleta saddle bone for an extra 80 US$.

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