“Sombrio”. A Ganz/Romanillos style of guitar August 2017. (It is like another guitar built 10 years ago Guitar of Month – 2007 Maplenillos.)
Top is European Spruce from Italy. Back and sides are European Maple with a light flame figure. The tone is smooth and buttery, and will only get more so with time and playing. Scale length:650 Nut: 52mm String spacing at nut is 43, at saddle 58.
French polished shellac applied slowly and well cured.
Price:No longer available (inquire about another)
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- The front: Italian Spruce. The rose design is my “torch”
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- The sides and back are lightly flamed Euro Maple.
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- The back: more maple.
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- Back and heal. The black insert is African Blackwood.
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- These machines are nice, and efficient. Most who try them remark that they are smooth.
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- Some detail of the neck: Mahogany!. V-joint.
Here is a sound file: an excerpt from Sor’s Andante Largo. The sound is raw. No reverb. No noise reduction. I’m playing (doing my best) to a Blue Yeti USB mic attached to a windows laptop running Audacity hardware.