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Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Double top Contreras V1, Alpine Spruce top CUTAWAY. Snakewood bindings.  Mother pearl Rosette and detailings. Double soundport in upper and lower bout. 16" radiused Ebony fingerboard. The PERFECT CONCERT CUTAWAY!  Here is one spectacular Concert Cutaway. I used a superb perfectly bookmatched 96 years air dried set of Brazilian rosewood from Minas Gerais. This means that WW1 was about to begin when the wood for this set started drying. This helps put the age in perspective. The sound reflects the maturity of the wood which translates in a deep sounding very expressive instrument. The bass is round, deep and robust whilst the clarity of the higher registers is perfect. I topped the Brazilian rosewood with Alpine Spruce and used Sinker Redwood for the second top which is mounted halfway between the main top (Alpine Spruce) and the back. I used Sinker redwood for the second top, placed halfway between top 1 and the Rosewood back. It adds a unique signature to the sound that no other wood can replicate. Snakewood and Walnut, to decorate this beauty and define her exquisite lines. I then proceeded to add Tahitian Mother of pearl to make the rosette and decorate the violin tie, bridge and headstock.  The sound is well balanced with first class separation between the different voices and with each string preserving its unique character. The sustained bass line creates the perfect background for the epic melody to stand out gloriously. Playability is natural and the 16" radiused fingerboard along with the 640mm scale and the cut all add up to make the playing experience on this Queen a wonderful one. She is a  true work of art for those players that prefer a cutaway over  a classical shaped concert guitar. Recording Chi Mai on this Cutaway  . THE PERFECT CLASSICAL CUTAWAY PC video Hear this amazing CUTAWAY Mac & iPad video Hear this amazing CUTAWAY                       The double top VARIATION 1, was developed and introduced by  Master Luthier Manuel Contreras the II at the end of the 70s and reached its peak in the 80s. In this Variation of the Double top, a second top is located halfway between the main top and the back. It is held in place by means of little Mahogany bridges. This top vibrates a fraction of a second after the first one creating an immense sustain and punch. Italian Alpine Spruce is the highest growing tree on the planet. It grows at or above 1,800 meters where the oxygen is rarefied. This makes the grain much tighter resulting in a strong reverberating tone wood. This is the species Stradivarius used for his legendary violins. 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. 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. 640mm or 650 mm? Mother of pearl inlay work Request the Signed Limited Edition POSTER  OF THIS AMAZING GUITAR 23.6 in X 51 in

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