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Tasmanian Blackwood B&S, Bellucci/Hauser braced Alpine Spruce top Concert guitar. 640mm, 20" Radiused Ebony fingerboard, Luxury marquetry on all sides, Gold plated carved tuners. Decorated Ebony bridge, Double sequential soundport in the upper bout, Indented Cutaway. Embossed Leather case included. Absolutely Gorgeous! Tasmanian Blackwood is one of the best tonewoods on the planet. It has a tight highly figured grain with tones that move from Dark brown to Orange, red and yellow. Depending on how the light hits the surface of the back and sides, Tasmanian Blackwood can give out a wonderful golden tone. Spectacular ! When mixed with Alpine Spruce, you get a perfect combination of tone colors. Deep dark Basses and crispy as well as sweet trebles where the mid tones and the huge array of overtones and harmonics feels the gap between the different voices. Playing Barrios' "Una Limosna" I could feel how her amazing third blossoms. Being the third string a classical guitar Achilles' heel, this says a lot. The bass carries the majestic counterpoint to perfection. The melody is always in centersatge. This amazing guitar works with you in the creation of the best music. In Bach I can take full advantage of her elegant and sober vibrato. Great lyrical qualities to her tone that set her apart from the crowd.  Playability is superb. Easy and natural thanks to the stylized neck, radiused fingerboard and very low action. A jewel guitar to make a player happy for life.   .. The Warner Bros. Characters above are "the other" famous individuals from Tasmania..  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 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.   Tasmanian Blackwood, timber has a density of approximately 660 kg/m3. Very strong. may range in color from straw to grey-white with clear demarcation from the heartwood. The heartwood is golden to dark brown with chocolate growth rings. The timber is generally straight grained but may be wavy or interlocked. Black striping gives it a superb look and gets it closer to its African relative.

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  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$.