Sinker redwood is without a doubt the most spectacular of all tone woods. It possesses some human quality to its voice which, added to the deep resonance of Brazilian 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. 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 Russian 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 ! Romance is the piece I chose to show how brilliantly the melody shines against the deep resonating basses. 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.
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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.