Curly Maple B&S, DOUBLE top top + lattice Alpine spruce top Concert guitar. July 28, 2009.

Summer is the season when the air pollution is much warmer

Quilted Maple B&S, LATTICE braced Alpine Spruce top, Maple bindings, radiused ebony fingerboard, violin tie, armrest & bridge. 640mm fret spacing, soundport in upper bout. Embossed leather case included. MASTERPIECE !
Maple is what I call White Blackwood. It possesses most of the qualities of the African species at a fraction of the price. The wood is gorgeous and delivers a full sound that will leave you speechless. Strong punching bass and fast response are the main characteristics of these lattice braced Alpine spruce top masterpiece. Pernambuco's Choro is lively with perfectly separated voices, round basses and crystal clear trebles. In the clip, listen how the basses punch in creating the harmonic sustain in ways hard to explain in words. The action is swift and light making the most demanding works natural and flawless. An A++ concert babe !

Italian Alpine spruce

Bellucci guitars
Brown plush interior

The lattice is a concept based on the A frame of grand pianos. The back and sides are kept rigid by means of a sturdy A shaped frame and the top is thinned as much as possible to allow the top to vibrate generously. As you see from the picture above, the thinned area is approximately 1.2 mm thick (VS 2-2.5 in the standard thinning techniques). Lattice delivers a lot of volume (approximately 21 dbs more) and wonderfully clear trebles.

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.

The hand embossed leather case is a work of art on its own right. Built by one of a handful of very talented leather embossers in Latin America. Its built following my specifications for the interior to fit Bellucci guitars like a glove. All Plush interior, key and accessories compartment. You can request an upgrade to a Cow hive front and back version.

640mm or 650 mm?
Regarding 650mm or 640 mm fingerboard fret spacing, 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. Adapting from one scale to the other takes no adaptation.

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Curly Maple B&S, Alpine Spruce top Concert guitar

Curly Maple B&S, Alpine Spruce top Concert guitar

96 years air dried Brazilian rosewood B&S, DOBLE TAPA, CONTRERAS STYLE (variation 1)

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