Brazilian Rosewood Concert guitar, August 5, 2011.

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100 Years air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser Braced 280 years old Sinker Redwood top. African Padauk bindings, Exclusive handmade luxury marquetry on all sides. Pearl details on Brazilian rosewood violin tie and bridge. Brazilian rosewood armrest, 16" radiused Ebony fingerboard, 640mm fret spacing, gold plated carved tuners. Embossed leather case included! Gorgeous!
Sinker Redwood is without a doubt one of the most spectacular of all tone woods. It possesses some human quality to its voice which, added to the deep resonance of Rosewood, creates some of the most astonishing instruments I have ever built. I cannot use it as much as I would like to because it is no always available. I was lucky enough to buy 12 sets recently and I still have a few left. Only a fraction of sinker logs makes it to musical instrument grade. The ebony armrest, fingerboard, violin tie and bridge makes the instrument look simply MARVELOUS ! The Handmade Wood and Pearl rosette and marquetry were also chosen thinking of the harmonious looks of the instrument and when you embrace her, you feel and perform like a much better player... that is the signature of a Masterpiece guitar: It makes the player want to play better. Asturias is the piece I chose to show how brilliantly the bass shines against the clear resonating trebles. The piece is taken to a whole new level. Playing on the 640mm radiused fingerboard makes playing natural and the left hand flows much lighter throughout the fingerboard. Anyone who decides to make this guitar his personal Queen will always be glad he did. She's a masterpiece !

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Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser Braced (with mixed woods, transverse strut & ultra
The transversal strut (1) is Sinker Redwood shaped in the Ramirez Style. Te underbridge strut (2) is also Sinker Redwood made in the Mueller style. The soundhole side strut (3) are Spruce, The 6 fans (4) are Cedar and the 2 side fans (5) are Mahogany

640mm or 650 mm?
Guitar scale lenght

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.
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.

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100 Years air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser Braced 280 yearls old Sinker Redwood top

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100 Years air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser Braced 280 yearls old Sinker Redwood top

100 Years air dried Brazilian Rosewood B&S, Hauser Braced 280 yearls old Sinker Redwood top

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