Nylon / No. 786
the Ascent – Soul – Awakening
The classical voice of The Ascent: a Sinker Western Red Cedar double-top guitar with Amboyna Burl, an amber floating armrest and a Soul – Awakening Roots inlay across the fingerboard and rosette, made from mammoth bark and mammoth bone.
SeriesOpus Magnum
The story
Model: Opus Magnum
The classical voice of The Ascent: a Sinker Western Red Cedar double-top guitar with Amboyna Burl, an amber floating armrest and a Soul – Awakening Roots inlay across the fingerboard and rosette, made from mammoth bark and mammoth bone.
First in the World luthier guitar introduces the following innovations:
- ACOUSTIC TUBES inside the guitar neck with natural Baltic amber outlets
- X-WAVE RESONATOR double top
- X-A.R.S. back and sides
- SIGMOIDAL JOINT of the guitar sides
- FLAMED AFRICAN EBONY IMPEDANCE BRIDGE with stiffening wings
- BALTIC AMBER FLOATING ARMREST isolated from the soundboard
- AMBER HEADLIGHT AND BACKLIGHT
- ARC FRETS
- SOUL – AWAKENING ROOTS INLAY in mammoth bark and mammoth bone across the fingerboard and rosette
Specifications
- Collection
- The Ascent – Soul – Awakening
- Model
- Opus Magnum
- Guitar no.
- 786
- Double top
- Sinker Western Red Cedar
- Back and sides
- Amboyna Burl
- Scale
- 650 mm
- Neck
- Asymmetric Turkowiak neck made of modified magnolia
- Fingerboard
- Elevated, flamed African ebony
- Soundhole
- Central soundhole with a Soul – Awakening Roots inlay made from mammoth bark and mammoth bone
- Head
- Classic slotted shape with double natural Baltic amber headplates and a white Baltic amber logo
- Nut
- 52 mm, mammoth bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped
- Saddle
- Mammoth bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped
- Bridge
- Flamed African ebony impedance bridge with stiffening wings, inlaid with mammoth bone and African ebony
- Armrest
- Natural Baltic amber floating armrest, fixed and isolated from the soundboard
- Tuners
- Handmade tuning machines with natural Baltic amber buttons, 18:1 ratio
- Binding
- African ebony
- Purfling
- Natural Baltic amber
- Fingerboard markers
- White Baltic amber: 2 mm at frets 5, 9, 17 and 19; concentric 3 mm at fret 7 and double at fret 12
- Frets
- EVO-GOLD ArcFret
- Artwork
- Soul – Awakening Roots inlay across the fingerboard and rosette, made from mammoth bark and mammoth bone, with a matching illuminated rear artwork
- Varnish
- Highly resonant, antistatic, hand-polished high-gloss finish with gold dust
- Strings
- Hannabach 1869 24Ct Gold-Plated Pure Silver Carbon Medium-High Tension
- Hardcase
- Carbon-fibre hardcase fitted to the guitar
- Warranty
- Life-time