New Featured Guitar Model: Typhoon Guitar

Allow me to introduce this great masterpiece. This is the guitar I use on a regular basis both for live performance and for recording. She's an amazing Macassar Ebony jewel decided that can produce a marvelous as well as powerful sound. Playability on this Queen is simply fabulous thanks in part to the slim neck and the Venetian style cutaway. Macassar is a South East Asian tone wood species is known for the deep bass and fast projection of sound and that is a dream come true for for any  guitarists. Macassar Ebony has always been one of my favorite tone woods since I first used it some 10 years ago -late 2004-. This amazing set was spotted along with other 2 practically identical sets  by one of my best wood suppliers in South East Asia. He spotted them in the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, a large Paradisiac island near Borneo and Sumatra. Sulawesi is one of the largest Islands in the world. It was extracted from a tree that hand fallen after a major Typhoon over 15 years ago. Some of the most spectacular woods are harvested in Sulawesi and I was able to snap 4 fabulous sets… 2 spectacular Indonesian Mango sets, 1 "Typhoon" Macassar Ebony set and a fabulous Monkey Pod set. The tap tone was perfect and I knew that the resulting guitar would sing like a bird. Gorgeously tight grain and a figure seldom seen made me start dreaming of the fabulous guitar I would build with her from the very beginning of the project. I Decided to use a splendid set of 180+ year old Sinker Redwood for the top simply because I knew that the contrast between the parts would contrast to perfection with the wild, ferocious figure of the Indonesian back and sides. I was right not only because she looks great but also because the amazing combination of woods brings about an instrument that possesses the most amazing bass with a punch and sustain that is hard to be put into words. Sinker Redwood passes its marvelous characteristics of perfect separation of voices and warmth to the instrument. She's got power and the most amazing crystal clear trebles. There is not an inch on this beauty that will not mean an immense pleasure to your eyes. Everything from the splendid Handmade marquetry and rosette, the matching bridge, and the Onboard 4-Band EQ/Digital Tuner that took 4 hours to install.  The myriad details that bring her to life will make you treasure this masterpiece of nature and lathery as she deserves. You will fall in love with the marvels that human craftsmanship can do when the best of nature is put in the right hands. I baptized her "Typhoon guitar" because we could not have built this beauty should have Sulawesi Island not have been hit by a Pacific monster some 15 years ago...

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