This amazing Cedar top is the type of instrument it is so hard to part with. She's everything a concert guitar must be. Beautiful beyond the realm of words and with a sound that blows you away. The set of Brazilian Rosewood is from Rio de Janeiro. It is of a dark chocolate brown with tight grain. Beautiful, with different shades of brown, red and green. The set is perfectly bookmatched and I coupled it with a Master grade cedar top that I braced in the Hauser style. The resulting instrument is perfect. She's powerful yet sweet and aggressive at the same time. A slight change in the angle of attack will immediately translate in a change in the color of tone. Fast responsive and so beautiful that she makes you want to perform better than ever.
The Bach prelude gains a whole new light when I play it with this amazing babe. I feel like trying new phrasings and even experiment with tone  a bit. I find her so easy to play and the equilibrium of her voices, the presence of the bass and the clarity of her trebles is simply spectacular.
Hundreds of details make her a GRAND instrument and your eyes will be filled with beauty wherever you stop to admire her curves. This is the perfect 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.

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.

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.

Chinook helicopters are used to extract these monster Cedar trees  from the thick mountainous canopy. Logged trees can have a diameter of almost 3 meters... HUGE

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