No24 Western Red Cedar and Indian Rosewood

My Guitar #21 was designed by necessity. The Amazon Rosewood back for that instrument was not wide enough for a 2-piece back, so I inserted a curly maple panel in the middle and worked it into the rest of the design of the instrument. This guitar is a matching pair to that guitar, but using Western Red Cedar for the top wood and East Indian Rosewood for the main Rosewood panels.

Just like with #21, the woods from the back are worked into the rosette and the headplate.

The top is an even grained super stiff Western Red Cedar. The medulary rays through the top show that this is a perfectly quartersawn top. It has a very light weight Hauser 7-fan with closure bars. The sound is punchy and bright, with a good quantity of overtones to make the sound intriguing.

This guitar has the following characteristics:

• Western Red Cedar top.  Perfectly quartersawn with amazingly stiff properties.
• East Indian Rosewood back and sides, with a Curly Maple center panel.
• The East Indian Rosewood sides are laminated with Sapele as the inner lamination layer. This helps stiffen the sides for both supporting the top with a strong rim for sound clarity, and also reduces the likeliness for cracks appearing from impacts to the sides.
• Curly maple bindings .
• Rosewood and curly maple headplate
• Indian Ebony fingerboard
• Brazilian Rosewood bridge
• Spanish Cedar neck
• Indian Ebony arm rest. Low profile provides a softer pressure on your right forearm. The arm rest is only glued to the bindings, so it floats over the top to prevent any impact on the sound of the guitar.
• Rosette is my own design using the same woods as used in the back of the guitar.
• 650 mm scale length
• 52 mm nut width, 42mm string center to center string spacing at nut.
• Partial 20th fret for upper 2 strings
• Gotoh premium tuners with the extra roller bearings.
• Hauser inspired Symmetrical 7-fan bracing pattern with closure bars.

This instrument is SOLD