TIGER
WOOD B&S, 9-fans Hauser Braced DOUBLETOP, ALPINE SPRUCE top.
640mm, 16" radiused Ebony fingerboard, Ebony Bridge, TIGERWOOD Armrest
& violin tie, African Padauk Bindings, Lute type soundport in Upper
Bout... Handmade Embossed Leather case included.
SPECIAL
CUT, "The Tiger"
Here
is a FABULOUS Tiger wood concert guitar...one of only 3 I built to date.
The wood is tremendously beautiful and resembles the fur on a Bengal Tiger.
I made her a double top using Alpine Spruce for the main top and Sinker
Redwood fro the second top located halfway between the main top and the
Tiger Wood back. I love this combination because it allows the sound to
be a lot more varied and the tone color palette becomes practically invisible.
The special cut makes her even more beautiful and the 3 days of extra work
that it translates into are totally justified. Not only does the special
cut allow for easier moves past the 9th fret but it also looks MAGNIFICENT.
African Padauk
bindings decorate her lines and bring the parts together. An Exquisite
rosette matching the handmade marquetry that decorate every side on this
one in a million concert guitar crowns her.
The sound
is expressive, powerful and superbly sustained. The phrasing is Asturias
comes natural and I feel her roaring relentlessly. What a SOUND !!!
She received thumbs up from the luthiers overlooking the making of the
video and I could tell that they were immensely proud to hear their creation
sound so magnificently. My daughter on teh other hand, could not stop say
"Que linda !" (How beautiful !) Finally, the action is PERFECT ! EASY AND
NATURAL and NEVER POSING STRESS OR FATIGUE TO THE LEFT HAND. |
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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.
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.
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650 mm
or 640 mm?
Keep the following
rule at hand: If the distance between the tip of your thumb and the tip
of your little finger is equal or less than 9 in. when fully stretched,
use 640 mm
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The double top with the 9 braces
Hauser fan, was developed and introduced by Master Luthier Manuel
Contreras the II at the end of the 70s and reached its peak in the 80s.
In this Variation of the Double top, a second top is located halfway between
the main top and the back. It is held in place by means of little Mahogany
bridges located above and below the second top along the inner part of
the sides (frames 1 & 3). The second top rests on the upper bridges
and once it is glued on each little bridge (frame 2), a second bridge is
glued on top of the preceding corresponding bridge below the second top
(frame 3). This second top vibrates a fraction of a second after the first
one creating an immense sustain and punch using the air moving inside the
sound box and thus creating a multiplying effect of the sonorous waves. |
Sinker logs (top #2), 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.
Special Cut:
Beauty and ease of play
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Request the Signed POSTER
23.6 in X 51 in
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