#109 – English Walnut $975

The back and sides are English walnut that grew in Denver Pennsylvania.  The top is redwood recycled from water tanks that used to be on New Your City apartment buildings.   My favorite top wood with a deep ’round’ sound which is why it is currently strung low-G.  I do use a zero fret so converting to a high-G is just a matter of changing strings, no messing with the nut required.  The headplate and rosette are what I am calling ‘Picasso’.  Made up of lots of little pieces of wood I could not bear to throw out.  Neck is mahogany.  Fingerboard and bridge are casuarina which was harvested in Jupiter Florida.  It is considered an invasive species in south Florida and is very hard and abrasion resistant (quickly dulls sandpaper).  The perfect fingerboard wood.  The fingerboard has a 10 inch radius.  Curly maple binding with black-white-back purfling on both top/back and sides.  Side sound port.

 

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