This concert was built to pull together a number of the ‘latest’ things, and as a bit of an experiment of some build techniques. The back and sides are curly ash, and the top is curly redwood. It has a ‘scoop’ to make playing up the fingerboard easier, a side sound port, a radiused fingerboard with a pretty strong 7.25 inch radius, my new spiral rosette, and my new ‘Picasso’ headplate which is made from all those little pieces of neat wood I could not bear to throw in the wood stove. As part of the experiment I have it strung low-G and it sounds really good for a smaller instrument, with lots of sustain, and a pretty good base response.
Fingerboard and bridge are Redheart, neck is Alaskan yellow cedar, black-white-black puurfling, curly mahogany binding.
