Steel / No. 468
Luthier’s traveler mini 14-F acoustic guitar with folding neck no. 468
The story
First in the World luthier acoustic guitar with the following innovations:
- Acoustic Tubes inside the guitar neck (Patent – European Patent Office no. EP 3340231 ‘Acoustic Tubes’)
- Top with a WAVE resonator
- Back & sides made in High-Tech Press
- Sigmoidal Joint of the guitar sides (Patent: European Union Intellectual Property Office 008177463-001)
Specifications
- Body
- MINI, 14-frets to the body
- Double-Top
- Alpine Spruce from Tirol (Master Grade)(top) / Old-growth Redwood (bottom)
- Back&Sides
- Vavona (Redwood) Burl with sapwood (Master Grade) dyed to Red color
- Neck
- Asymmetric Turkowiak shape, made of flamed Sycamore Maple(Master Grade), folds in half
- Fingerboard
- Elevated, African Ebony (Master Grade), binded, compound radius 16″ (at the nut)
- Type
- Solid Mini size, hollow inside
- Plates
- African Ebony (Master Grade)
- Logo
- Natural Baltic amber
- Bridge
- African Ebony with drilled holes (Master Grade), hand-shaped shaped, encrusted with natural bone, with African Ebony pins,
- Soundhole
- Single left upper-bout, binded
- Heel
- Cup / Ebony (Master Grade)
- Logo
- Natural Baltic amber
- Arm bevel
- Smooth, Ebony, integrated with the guitar body, 20 mm width
- Nut
- Hand-shaped and polished bone, 43 mm (1 11/16″) width
- Saddle
- Hand-shaped and polished bone, semi-scalloped
- Tuners
- Schaller M6 90 Gold plated single tuning keys, with top locks and Ebony buttons
- Binding
- Ebony (Master Grade)
- Fingerboard side dots
- Natural bone ø 1.5 mm at 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 (double), 15 frets
- Frets
- 18% nickel-silver
- Strap buttons
- Ebony with logo inlays in black mother of pearl
- Scale length
- 25.5” (647,7 mm)
- Finish
- Varnish, highly resonant, anti-static (own recipe), hand-polished, high-gloss
- Pickguard
- Vavona Burl with sapwood (Master Grade) dyed to Red color
- Inlay
- 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 15, 17, 19 fret Signs inlay made of natural Baltic amber
- Cutaway
- Semi-Cutaway
- Warranty
- Life-time
- Case
- Soft cover fitted to the instrument