Back and sides of this guitar are made of Malaysian Blackwood. This guitar is also what I call “PTE #1 = Pushing The Envelope #1”, an instrument in which I explored the limits of current lutherie technique. Here, I explored the use of a thin and narrow fretboard, almost a steel-string neck, with a classical guitar – the fretboard is Ebony with a 650 mm scale length and has a constant width of 46 mm from nut to saddle. The result is a guitar which is remarkably fast and easy to play, particularly with barred chords and in open tunings.
The soundboard is “bearclaw” German Spruce. The bridge and headplate are Snakewood, and the headplate has inlays of my "Maui Girl"™ trademark and "JAD" logo. The neck and peghead are Spanish Cedar -- not as thin as a hardwood neck, but thin and flat by classical-guitar standards -- and it is fitted with Blake Robinson Northumbria Sterling Silver tuning machines with Snakewood buttons. The peghead uses my proprietary Rear String Slot design; the soundboard uses my proprietary Projection Tuned™ BRACELESS “double soundboard” design licensed from RainSong; and the heel has my signature Abalone heelcap. The inside of the soundboard is signed, dated and numbered (#10) by me.
$7,500.00, which includes a hard-shell case. |
