Zorro Masterpiece. October 16, 2009.

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94 years air dried Brazilian rosewood B&S, 270 years aged Sinker Redwood top, Double top w/Nomex core . Ebony bindings, 16" radiused ebony fingerboard, violin tie, armrest & bridge. Soundport in upper bout. Embossed leather case included. SPECTACULAR ! "Zorro"
When a piece offers so many challenges as Cavatina does, The player needs an instrument that will work WITH him to overcome such challenges. Extremely tough Barres with both hammer ons and pull offs played simultaneously, a melody on the first and second strings that MUST be kept in center stage as the barres are kept down and huge displacements on the fingerboard must be done keeping strings squeaks at a minimum. That's when a guitar of this stature becomes a player's best friend. The sinker doubletop with Nomex core delivers a marvelous sustain and the South Western set of Brazilian rosewood the punch and sweetness that will make every hear melt. A swift 640mm radiused action will help you feel at home in every position on the fingerboard.

Sinker logs like the ones above, 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.

Hear this BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD Concert guitar

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94 years air dried Brazilian rosewood B&S, 270 years aged Sinker Redwood top, Double top w/Nomex core

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