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120 year air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Special Hauser braced 280 year old Sinker Redwood Top Concert guitar. African Padauk bindings, 640mm. Ebony fingerboard, Brazilian Rosewood armrest, Pearl details on Brazilian rosewood bridge. Luxury hand crafted marquetry on all sides, Double centric Pearl rosette. Gold plated carved tuners, Pearl center strip on headstock, Indented Cutaway. Hand crafted Leather embossed case included. Masterpiece!
I have only come about this type of Sinker Redwood on a couple of occasions and it never ceases to surprise how stunning the wood can be when mother nature has kept it in its womb for centuries. Sinker redwoods are actually semi fossilized woods... The fossilization had just begun but the small presence of crystals makes it an extremely glassy wood that pushes a superbly clear, powerful sound, and a mature voice that can hardly be challenged by other species. In this particular case, the wood presents a fascinating, dark brown with black striping color that I was able to bookmatch to perfection and create an amazing top crowned by the most beautiful concentric Tahitian Mother of pearl and Abalone. The Brazilian Rosewood is from near Cascavel, Brazil, and has been air drying for over 120 years. Perfectly bookmatched with a tap tone to die for. Cavatina a nd Asturias show her amazing clarity in each voice. The bass is perfectly defined, the trebles are clear and penetrating and the mid ranges close the gap between the two extremes to perfection. Playing on the slim 640 action is swift and natural. The hand never feels stressed and you become one with the guitar only seconds into the playing.
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Sinker logs

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.


The fan brace is based on the Hauser 1943 Frame. It incorporates 4 different species of wood: Sinker redwood, Spruce, Cedar and Mahogany. The sinker Redwood is the transversal strut that shortens the trebles side to augment the power of the high registers whilst Cedar and spruce were used on the bass side to augment the power of and resonance of the bass line. I think I can affirm that she has the most powerful 6th string I have ever heard and one of the best ringing trebles you can hope for. Simply amazing. The top was reduced to less than 1 mm towards the edges and just a little over 1 mm towards the bridge area where I installed a new underbridge system that connects the bridge with each strut in the fan brace whilst directing each frequency to the right portion of the top.

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.
 

 

Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced 280 year old Sinker Redwood  top Concert guitar

Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced 280 year old Sinker Redwood  top Concert guitar

Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced 280 year old Sinker Redwood  top Concert guitar

Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced 280 year old Sinker Redwood  top Concert guitar

Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced 280 year old Sinker Redwood  top Concert guitar
Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced 280 year old Sinker Redwood  top Concert guitar


 

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.


 
 
 

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