Steel / No. 490
Luthier’s 12-string acoustic guitar no. 490
The story
First in the World luthier guitar introduces the following innovations:
- VII generation ACOUSTIC TUBES inside the guitar neck with natural Baltic amber outlets
- top with X generation WAVE type resonator
- back & sides made in IV generation HIGH-TECH PRESS
- SIGMOIDAL JOINT of the guitar sides
- II generation pinless bridge WITH DRILLED HOLES encrusted with natural Baltic amber – made of African Ebony (Master Grade)
Specifications
- Body shape
- Jumbo, Full (no-cutaway)
- Strings
- 12
- Body Joint
- 12th fret
- Top
- Solid: Alpine Spruce from Tirol (Master Grade)
- Back & Sides
- Bolivian Rosewood with sapwood (Master Grade)
- Scale
- 660 mm
- Neck
- Asymmetric Turkowiak neck made of flamed sycamore maple (Master Grade), dual-action double truss rod
- Fingerboard
- Elevated, African Ebony (Master Grade), compound radius 16″ (at the nut)
- Head
- Plates / Natural Baltic amber (top) / African Ebony (bottom)
- Shape
- Open (Modern / Hollow)
- Logo
- Natural Baltic amber encrusted
- Rosette
- Encrusted with natural Baltic amber plates and natural (white) Baltic amber two crown logos
- Heel
- Cap / African Ebony (Master Grade)
- Logo
- Natural Baltic amber
- Nut
- 51 mm (2″), natural bone, hand-shaped and polished
- Saddle
- Natural bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped
- Arm bevel
- Smooth, Ebony, integrated with the guitar body, 20 mm width
- Tuners
- Gold-plated single tuning keys, with mother of pearl screw reinforcements. Ratio 1:18
- Binding
- African Ebony (Master Grade)
- Fingerboard markers
- Natural bone ø 1.5 mm at 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 (double), 15 frets
- Frets
- EVO-GOLD (nickel-free)
- Varnish
- Highly-resonant, antistatic (own recipe), hand-polished, high-gloss
- Pickguard
- Bolivian Rosewood (Master Grade)
- Strap buttons
- African Ebony (Master Grade) with crown logo made of natural Baltic amber inlay
- Hardcase
- Brand, fitted to the guitar
- Warranty
- Life-time