Brazilian Rosewood Concert guitar. January 20, 2012.

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120 year air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced Cedar top Concert guitar. 640mm, 20" Radiused Ebony fingerboard, Luxury marquetry on all sides. Gold plated carved tuners, Brazilian Rosewood armrest and decorated bridge, African Padauk bindings. Handmade Roman style Russian rosette, soundport on the Indented Cutaway, double sequential soundport in the upper bout. Embossed leather case included. Gorgeous!
Pure beauty and elegance are the main ingredients that make this amazing concert guitar. The most striking and perfectly bookmatched set of BRW. A 120+ years air dried set from South Eastern Brazil gives her the feline look and the mature voice as well as the perfectly balanced sound she possesses. It shows perfectly in the Bach Prelude. Her voice is deep, silky and mature. The sound speaks of a Masterpiece instrument. Cedar adds the typical punch and sweetness to the voice and her sound and ton e palette is infinite.
The bass sends big waves through the guitar and she vibrates generously. The mid ranges are rich in harmonics and the trebles shine majestically. This is the description of a perfect concert guitar. Sustain is long, vibrato is right at your fingertips and the response is immediate.
Playing her is easy. Low action at just 3.5mm at fret 12 coupled with a 20" radius and slim neck make her amazingly easy to play. The left hand is never strained and you are relaxed throughout the interpretation.
Her decoration speaks of my love for luthery in that I do not mind spending 2 days more in decorating the lines on my guitar if I know that this will elevate her to royalty levels. She is art of the purest breed every inch of her construction.

The 9 braces Hauser fan is the most thoroughly tested fan brace setup on the planet. It is the result of many years of experimenting. It is braced on Torres 4 fan brace design. The braces act as sound vibrations highways...they carry the vibration of each string to a specific spot on the soundboard. If you put your fingers on the soundboard as you play the 6th string for instance, you will feel the upper portion of the top vibrate with more power than the rest of the top. You will be able to feel this vibrations with your fingertips all the way to the 4th strings. It is harder to feel the vibration caused by the treble strings. The variations on the 9 braces fan is enormous. Luthier taylor each fan to achieve a specific sound and match the instrument with the rest of the woods used in the construction. Above to the left is a 9 braces all Spruce fan. I often use a mixture of Cedar, Spruce and Mahogany to match different wood combinations.

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120 year air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced Cedar top Concert guitar

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.

120 year air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser braced Cedar 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.
OPTIONAL ADJUSTABLE SADDLE BONE
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$.

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