Aged Brazilian rosewood B&S, Lattice braced cedar top April 13, 2009

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92 years air dried and highly figured Brazilian rosewood B&S, LATTICE BRACED Cedar top, Gabon Ebony bindings, radiused fingerboard, armrest, violin tie and bridge. 640mm fret spacing. Soundport. CUTAWAY. Embossed leather case included. SPECTACULAR !!!
The sound produced by this amazing Cedar top is, simply put, SPECTACULAR ! A gorgeous 92 years air dried set of Brazilian rosewood from Minas Gerais (Brazil) matched perfectly with a tight grained set of Western Redcedar top. Lattice bracing to enhance the vibrations of the top to the maximum allowing the instrument to put out amazingly clear trebles and well defined round basses. Listening to Romance, you can hear how the melody stands gloriously on top of the full sounding basses. Sustain is outstanding and the performer feels as though the lungs on this cedar top babe are simply HUGE. A gorgeous Russian rosette with roses made using thousands of pixel like pieces of wood of different species and a fantastic set of matching bindings and trims on all sides bring out the beautiful curves of this concert cutaway. I always incorporate a huge number of artistic details to enhance the beauty of the guitar. I know that a beautiful instrument makes the performer play A LOT better. This cutaway is no exception. I incorporated double headplate, luxury trims, gold plated carved tuners, lacquered interior, embedded knots holes on the tie, and many more fabulous " touches" .
The action is tremendously easy, natural and intuitive. The left hand fingers always feel relaxed and there is no mount up of tension in the fingers. Changes of position on the radiused fingerboard are swift and require minimum effort. An A++ concert cutaway !

The lattice is a concept based on the A frame of grand pianos. The back and sides are kept rigid by means of a sturdy A shaped frame and the top is thinned as much as possible to allow the top to vibrate generously. As you see from the picture above, the thinned area is approximately 1.2 mm thick (VS 2-2.5 in the standard thinning techniques). Lattice delivers a lot of volume (approximately 21 dbs more) and wonderfully clear trebles.

Brown PLUSH interior

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.

The hand embossed leather case is a work of art on its own right. Built by one of a handful of very talented leather embossers in Latin America.
Its built following my specifications for the interior to fit Bellucci guitars like a glove. All Plush interior, key and accessories compartment.

640mm or 650 mm?
Regarding 650mm or 640 mm fingerboard fret spacing, 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. Adapting from one scale to the other takes no adaptation
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92 years air dried Brazilian rosewood B&S, LATTICE BRACED Cedar top

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94 years air dried Brazilian rosewood B&S, LATTICE BRACED Cedar top

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