Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Curly Sinker Redwood top Concert guitar. January 24, 2012.

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120 year air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Bellucci/Hauser braced 280 year old Curly Sinker Redwood top. 640mm, 20" Radiused Ebony fingerboard, Luxury marquetry on all sides, Gold plated carved tuners. Macassar Ebony armrest and decorated bridge, Cocobolo bindings. Double sequential soundport in the Upper bout & oval shaped soundport on the indented cutaway. Buffalo horn nut and saddle, Embossed leather case included. Stunning!
Curly sinker Redwoods are the greatest trees recovered to date. Some of the logs are 4 meters thick in diameter. Curly Redwood trees were around when Dinosaurs roamed the Earth and, just like their animal counterparts, they were literally gigantic. The trees had to be logged and worked extensively in the spot where the trees were logged. Water ways would then transport the wood to the wood mills. The sound that these woods put ot is unbelievably deep and mature. The clarity, perfect separation of voices and the second to none sustain, put these giants in a league all of their own. The counterpoint in the Air by Bach is well marked and the singing voice clear and penetrating. Sustain and harmonic overtones are superb.
Coupled with 12o years air dried beautifully figured and bookmatched Brazilian Rosewood, allows me to create some of the best concert guitars ever. Playing this beauty is a wonderful experience and I feel as though se has no limit when it comes to expressiveness and width of tone colors available to my fingertips.
Decorating her was done making sure that she looks her best from every angle. Bindings and purfling alone take 30 hours to be made. Her playability is perfect and she would be a dream come true for any guitar player looking for the guitar of a lifetime.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

120 year air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Bellucci/Hauser braced 280 year old Curly Sinker Redwood top

120 year air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Bellucci/Hauser braced 280 year old Curly Sinker Redwood top

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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