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AFRICAN ZEBRAWOOD Blackwood B&S,
Doble
tapa (Contreras style Variation 1) 270 years old Sinker redwood + Cedar
SECOND TOP. Bird's eye Maple bindings, 16" radiused fingerboard,
ZEBRAWOOD violin tie & armrest, Decorated Bocote & bridge. Master
inlay work on bridge, violin tie, fingerboard & Headstock. Triple neck
reinforcement truss rod, 640mm fret spacing. Embossed leather case
included. UNIQUE MASTERPIECE!
This amazing masterpiece has created a commotion in the studio, among my wife, children and every single oe of my team of luthiers. She will be remembered as one of BELLUCCI guitars highest achievements ever. The amount of details that add up to her complex beauty is simply too large to be counted. It took almost 300 hours to build her and I cherish every minute invested in her creation. The Second top made of cedar creates a wonderful sustain and punch while the Sinker redwood gives her the deep human like quality that seems to speak as I play the Bach prelude. Listen how deep those basses are... The 6th string seems to be powered by a turbo engine and the melody rings crisp and clear throughout. AMAZING !! The Tahitian mother of pearl adds the royal touches that take her to MASTERPIECE level. We even indulged in making a 2 woods fingerboard: Center in rosewood and the sides in Zebrawood. This guitar is without a doubt one of the BEST ever built !! |
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 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 (Cedar, Image
below) is located halfway between the main top and the back. This top vibrates
a fraction of a second after the first one creating an immense sustain
and punch. |
 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?
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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. |
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