ZORRO,
LATTICE
braced Sinker Redwood top, Doble tapa
Contreras style + Variation
1. African
Walnut bindings, 16" radiused ebony fingerboard, violin tie, armrest &
bridge. Adjustable truss rod, Lute type Soundport in upper
bout, GOLD PLATED BLACK tuners, Embossed leather case included.
GORGEOUS !
The
epic TV hero comes alive every time I build one of these babes. The beauty,
response and projection that the instrument creates put her in a league
all of her own. FANTASTIC !I used every artistic knowledge to make every
little part on this babe a true work of art.
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. |
Above I show how I make the Contreras
Doble
tapa and the cedar fan brace
with cedar undertop
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HEAR THIS AMAZING BABE |
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