Description
Exceptional condition.
Serial number 1145.
Nut: 1 11/16″ – Pins: 2 1/4″ – Scale: 25.375″
Body depth: 3 1/2″ upper bout – Lower bout – 4 1/2″
Beautiful wide-grain Indian Rosewood back and sides. Select Sitka Spruce top with lots of silky medullary rays. Ebony peghead overlay with SCGC logo inlaid in headstock. Bone nut. Gabon ebony fingerboard with small dot inlays. Fingerboard bound with ivoroid. Top and back of body bound with ivoroid with matching ivoroid heelcap. Wooden herringbone purflings. Soundhole rosette is a beautiful combination of multiple ivoroid rings with small wood strips on either side of the ivoroid rings. Ebony bridge with boxed intonated bone saddle. Decorative wooden backstrip mitered into the multiple ivoroid back binding. Matching marketry strip inlaid at end joint. Pre-War style open-back tuners.
This guitar is as beautiful inside and out. Greg keeps threatening to keep it for himself. Comes with great original hardshell case.
Here is an audio clip of our friend Tim May playing this fine instrument.
