90 years old Brazilian rosewood B&S, Doubletop Sinker Oct. 30, 2008

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Aged Brazilian rosewood B&S, Doubletop sinker (240 years old) top. 640mm, radius, armrest, violin tie, soundport. WOW !

There are not enough adjectives to describe this incredible concert guitar. I indulged in the most precious woods and the result is a magnificent sound all encapsulated in a gorgeous concert guitar that will simply make you a better player. She delivers both in sound and looks. I matched the 90 years air dried set from Rio with a 240 years Sinker redwood top. Wow !! The response, volume and sustain on this babe are simply epic. Big round basses that never overshadow the trebles. An infinite palette of harmonic and midranges. The sinker redwood has been aging in a time capsule for over 240 years !!!
A Russian rosette decorated the center of the table. Luxury marquetry brings every part in harmony with the other. Playing on 640 is EASY. The radius helps the natural shape of the finger thus facilitating stopping even the most elusive notes.

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.

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Aged Brazilian rosewood B&S, Doubletop Sinker top

Aged Brazilian rosewood B&S, Doubletop Sinker top

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Aged Brazilian rosewood B&S, Doubletop Sinker top