Cocobolo back and sides, Port Orford cedar top, Spanish cedar neck, white curly koa binding, black & white diagonal purfling, asymmetric rosette in green heart abalone pearl, Richlite fingerboard and bridge, curly koa headplate. Great sounding and much louder than one might expect from a smaller bodied instrument. Scale length is 20.75 inches, strung with Savarez high-tension classical guitar strings.
Normally the wood I use makes no difference in the price, since most of the wood started with a me and a chain saw and a tree. I was given this cocobolo (a central American rosewood) as a scrap from a woodworker who built a dining room table out of a big magnificent slab. There was just enough width and length to make a couple of parlor guitars. I will never have this wood again, and cocobolo has become very expensive, so I need to charge a bit of a ‘wood premium’
| Parlor Guitar | $825 |
| Options | |
| side sound port | $75 |
| radiused fingerboard | $75 |
| wood premium | $150 |
| instrument total | $1,125 |
