Snakewood B&S, Lattice Braced Alpine Spruce top Cutaway Concert guitar. May 5, 2010.

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Allow me to introduce one of the best looking and sounding Concert Cutaways ever built. The sheer beauty of this Snakewood cutaway would need pages to describe and the picture can only do justice to a point. The pattern of the grain is an intricate tridimensional pattern that will be a pleasure to watch for long stretches of time. The clarity, depth and sustain of the sound is the only thing that can compete with her beauty. The sound is prolonged beyond the point where other guitars begin to ebb in sound. The trebles are clear, sweet and carry the melody without ever leaving you guessing where the main voice is. The bass is tremendously deep and sends a big punch through the player's body. I used Italian Alpine spruce to give her the presence and clarity typically associated with the Alpine species and proceeded to decorate her with Thai Amboina burl. The rosette is totally handmade and it took over 2 days to make it. She's a one of a kind, literally unique. Playing Cavatina was a treat and for someone like me who knows where the great challenges of the work are, I can assure you that you will find those amazing barres easy and natural to play on the 16" radiused 640mm action. As I play the first chord, The E sends a big punch and sustains endlessly while the B on the first begins to draw the wonderful melody. A myriad harmonics feel the gaps between the first and the 6th and the interpreter is rewarded with a feeling of plenitude. If you were looking for a Cutaway concert guitar, look no further, this amazing babe is for you !

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Hear this SNAKEWOOD BEAUTY

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.
Snakewood:

Snakewood, also known as Leopard wood is a fabulous tonewood found in Australia and parts of Northern Brazil. It possesses an amazing grain that resembles the texture of the skin of a snake or a Leopard, It is rare to come by and the resulting instruments are always stunning.

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 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. Lattice delivers a lot of volume a tremendous clarity.

640mm or 650 mm?
Guitar scale lenght

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Snakewood B&S Lattice braced Alpine Spruce top Concert Cutaway, Thai Amboina Burl

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