Cocobolo Rosewood Concert Steel String Guitar
00-size 14-fret neck
Pacific Redcedar soundboard
Back, sides, fingerboard, peghead veneer and bridge cut from single plank of
Cocobolo rosewood
Original cocobolo sapwood body and fingerboard bindings, heelcap and back
centerseam
$3500.00 plus case
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Rosewood Ditson-template Parlor Steel String Guitar
Made from original 1912 Ditson Grand Concert
template
Para Rosewood back, sides, peghead veneer and bridge cut from single plank
Flamed maple bindings
Sitka Spruce soundboard
Renown British guitarist Martin Simpson played this one in the
shop--"Wow!" was his report.
$3200.00 plus case
Brazilian Ebony OM-style Steel String Guitar
Brazilian Ebony back and sides, Ceylon ebony
fingerboard, bridge and pins
Flamed maple bindings and backstripe
Sitka Spruce soundboard
$3500.00 plus case
East Indian Rosewood Jumbo Twelve-String Guitar
Unique "pancake" design for under-arm
comfort and focused 12-string tone. Loud, powerful, penetrating.
East Indian Rosewood back and sides, Honduras mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard
Maple bindings
Englemann soundboard
$3500.00 plus case
| Sold |
The unusual "thin twelve" was purchased by a
Barbadan pilot. This is what it looked like just before it was shipped:
Hawaiian Koa Ditson-template Parlor Guitar
Made from original 1912 Ditson Grand
Concert template (courtesy Dick Boak, Martin Guitars)
Hawaiian Koa back and sides, Honduras mahogany neck, ebony
fingerboard
Flamed maple bindings
Sitka Spruce soundboard
$3200.00 plus case
| Sold |
Mid 2007, a young Britisher visiting my town of Northampton walked into my shop, was taken with the sound and the unusual shape and bought it. Below we see the Ditson recreation just before it took off to England.
Brazillian Rosewood OM-style Guitar
"Black Brazilian" Rosewood (Dahlbergia
Nigra) back and sides, Honduras mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard
Kermodie®
spruce soundboard (a Sitka-Englemann-Eastern White spruce hybrid)
$4400.00 plus case
Kingwood OM-style Guitar
Kingwood (Dahlbergia Retusa) back and
sides, Honduras mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard
White celluloid bindings, antler horn bridge pins, abalone back
stripe. Englemann Spruce soundboard
$5500.00
UPDATE: THIS
GUITAR HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND IS AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT
STAMMEL STRINGED INSTRUMENTS
East Indian Rosewood 12-fret 00-style Guitar
East Indian rosewood back and sides,
Honduras mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard, bridge and pins
Flamed maple bindings, abalone soundhole rosette
Englemann Spruce soundboard
$3500.00 plus case
Macassar Ebony OM-style Guitar
| Sold |
Back, sides, fingerboard, headstock
and bridge from same original plank of Macassar ebony
Curly Maple bindings, ebony bridge pins
Englemann Spruce soundboard
$3800.00 plus case
