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htaylor@herbtaylor.com
updated 24-Jun-2007


Number 78

s is a Dreadnaught guitar made of Pau Rosa with an old-growth Alaskan Sitka spruce top. Pau rosa is a beautiful African hardwood (pau rosa is Portugese for "red wood") which is very dense and hard similar to a rosewood. It gives a guitar a strong, brilliant tone.

Design includes a non-traditional asymmetrical X-braced top, a modern truss rod and a fully adjustable bolt-on neck. The neck has an "extension" over the soundboard, allowing the entire top to vibrate and allowing easy removal and adjustment of the neck.

Decoration includes trim and appointments of bloodwood, a dense New World hardwood known for keeping its red color without fading or turning dark. Red abalone rectangles mark the finger board and coordinate with the reddish color scheme. Gold tuners and a satin finish complete the reddish, organic eook.

This is a great Bluegrass instrument, capable of putting out that big Dreadnaught sound, but capable of delicacy and restraint also.

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