We present to you a handsome and finely made
16 ¾” wide acoustic archtop guitar that never had a pickup, having a 25 ½”
scale and a hair under 1 ¾” nut width.
The string spacing at the bridge is 2 1/8th”. The top is slightly translucent black,
what Dana calls “transparent ebony” and the type of finish is nitro-cellulose
lacquer, also known as “the good stuff.”
The top and back are bookmatched and carefully hand-carved by actual
hands – the top being very tightly grained Spruce, the back, sides and
three-piece neck being gorgeous tiger stripe maple. It has the soft cutaway, which Italians call
Venetian. The fingerboard is ebony and
neo-classical which means it has no markers on the front, just black dots
against the ivoroid on the bass side of the board in 7 positions. Dana and staff carved the harp shaped
tailpiece out of matte finish ebony with a polished ebony centerpiece, carved
the two-piece adjustable bridge out of ebony; the single-ply crème bound
pickguard is also ebony and so are the six large tuning buttons mounted to
Schaller brand gold-plated tuners. The
cutaway is soft, which they call Venetian although it has never seen the
streets of Venice,
the neck is one-piece maple; the truss rod cover, she is ebony also. The top she is bordered in crème and black
with ivoroid outermost on each of the two sides; the fingerboard is likewise
bound in ivoroid and so is the heel cap.
The nut width is a comfortable 1 ¾” and the string spacing at the bridge
is 2 1/8th”. The back and
sides exhibit a reasonable amount of tiger striping in the maple, and the tap-tuned
and X-braced spruce top is AAA grade.
This guitar plays beautifully, with a comfortable,
low, nearly effortless action. Being an
acoustic archtop it sounds rich and
bountiful with groaning cornucopia of acoustic affluence.