This is the latest generation instrument, with a bracing modification I am calling “long X’. It is an X bracing that also uses some ideas from the Kasha bracing style. The results are wonderful. Lots of sustain, lots of volume, even noting up the fingerboard. This instrument also includes a radiused fingerboard and a side sound port. I was a little skeptical of the value of a side sound port, but it really makes a positive difference.
Top – Pennsylvania red cedar I cut locally from a tree that had been taken down some years ago, but red cedar is very rot resistant.
back & sides – curly ash cut from my neighbor’s tree, with side sound port
purfling – black-white-black, rosewood binding, bocote fingerboard (radiused), bridge, and headplate.
Pink abalone rosette, bone sadle
gloss finish
