"The Tiger"

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Brazilian Rosewood B&S, lattice braced, Sinker Redwood top, Double top Contreras style, Ziricote bindings, African Padauk marquetry, Walnut burl rosette & details on the ebony bridge and violin tie. 16" radiused Macassar Ebony fingerboard. 640mm fret spacing. Embossed leather case included. POWERFUL, MALLEABLE SOUND  !!  "The Tiger" When I started playing The Tiger, it felt as though the instrument was breathing in order to put more air in her lungs and created the most amazing bass, sustain and marvelous vibrato I could dream of. The set of Tiger like striped Brazilian Rosewood is from Cascavel, a small town only 200 miles from the Paraguay-Brazil border. It is tremendously beautiful and it delivered the perfect image of a Tiger from the very start. I then proceeded to lattice brace a  280 years old Sinker Redwood top, and made her a double top using African Mahogany as her inner top and inside the sound box construction. Ziricote Bindings with African Padauk marquetry and linings to enhance her amazing figure and add more Tiger reminiscing details. The resulting instrument surpassed all my expectations. The feel of the strings under my finger, the punch she sends through my body every time a bass string is plucked and her crystalline sound speak of a pure breed instrument and a top concert performer. The action is low and easy at just 3.5mm at fret 12. I set her up for my right hand plucking which is heavy but I am sure that you will be able to lower her even more to fit your playing. The Tiger is a true Wild Feline ! .. PC video Hear The Tiger Mac & iPad video Hear The Tiger 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 double top, was developed and introduced by  Master Luthier Manuel Contreras the II at the end of the 70s and reached its peak in the 80s. In this Variation of the Double top, a second top is located halfway between the main top and the back. It is held in place by means of little Mahogany bridges. This top vibrates a fraction of a second after the first one creating an immense sustain and punch. 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. Lattice delivers a lot of volume a tremendous clarity. 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. . . . 640mm or 650 mm? Request the Signed POSTER  23.6 in X 51 in