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ZORRO Gabon Ebony Back and sides, Sinker Redwood top:  Buffalo Horn nut and saddle, armrest, radius, lattice braced top, violin tie, adjustable truss rod, hand painted tuners & Embossed leather case included (Limited time offer !)

Gabon ebony is the standard for black in lumber. It has been found in Egyptian tombs and is used on the fingerboard of violins. A very dense wood with specific gravity of 1.2, it is usually only available in widths less than 6” and lengths less than 48”. This is partly do to where the trees grow in central west Africa. There are few roads and most of the billets have to be hand carried out of the jungle.  *Very dense tight grained wood *Very expensive and rare. This set, along with 3 others, was ordered over 16 months ago ! 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. .  hear this fabulous Lattice braced Sinker redwood top guitar "ZORRO" ORDER NOW US$ 3,680 Armrest, Violin tie, lattice bracing, Embossed leather case, adjustable truss rod included

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ADD US$ 289. The gold plaque is fixed with 2 golden screws to the violin tie.