I love the look of well made classical guitars. Here are three beautiful guitars worth show-casing.
‘Black Diamond’ by Rafał Turkowiak
Design features include: • Acoustic Tubes – special ‘holes’ placed in the neck that increase resonance and reduce neck mass. • WAVE type resonator – increases vibration through the soundboard; reduced bridge mass.
Specs:
- Top – Western Red Cedar
- Back and Sides – Black and White Ebony
- Arched back
- Neck – Flame Maple
- Fretboard – Ebony
- Head – Crafted with natural black diamonds and authentic Mother of Pearl
- Bridge – Black and White Ebony with Mother of Pearl
- Armrest – Bevelled
- Tuners – Ebony, Aluminium, White Mother of Pearl with an 18:1 ratio
- Fret markers – Mother of Pearl
- Varnish – French polish
‘No. 22’ by Zebulon Turrentine
Specs:
- Top – Western Red Cedar
- Back and Sides – African Mahogany
- Fretboard – West African Ebony
- Bridge – African Padauk
- Bracing – Asymmetric lattice
- French polish with shellac
- Scale length – 650mm
- Jumbo Gold EVO frets
- Der Jung tuners
Grand Concert by Robert & Orville Milburn
Materials: Rare African blackwood sides and back, close straight grain European spruce soundboard with extensive cross grain silk, rare snakewood bindings, African Blackwood head veneers, black/white/black hairline purling, mammoth ivory saddle and bridge tie block decoration, perfectly executed side grain mosaic rosette, Rodgers tuning machine heads, impeccable French polish of finish.
