Bass / No. 606
Luthier’s baritone fan fret acoustic contrabass-body guitar no. 606
The story
First in the world luthier acoustic bass guitar with the following innovations:
- VIII generation ‘ACOUSTIC TUBES’ inside the guitar neck with African Ebony (Master Grade) outlets
- Top with X generation ‘WAVE’ resonator
- B&S made in VII generation ‘HIGH-TECH PRESS’
- SIGMOIDAL JOINT of the guitar sides
- African Ebony (Master Grade) fan-fret II generation BRIDGE with DRILLED HOLES encrusted with natural Baltic amber and bone
Specifications
- Body
- Contrabass (large)
- Frets to the body
- 12
- Double-Top
- Western Red Cedar (Master Grade)(top&bottom)
- Back&Sides
- Caribbean Rosewood with sapwood (Master Grade)
- Neck
- Turkowiak asymmetric made of flamed sycamore maple (Master Grade), dual-action double truss rod
- Fingerboard
- Elevated, African Ebony (Master Grade), bound, compound radius: 16″
- Plates
- African Ebony (Master Grade)
- Shape
- Open (Modern / Hollow)
- Logo
- Natural Baltic amber
- Soundhole
- Central with African Ebony (Master Grade) rosette plates and two natural Baltic amber crown logos
- Heel
- Cup / Ebony
- Logo
- Natural Baltic amber
- Armrest
- Ebony, integrated with the guitar body
- Nut
- Natural bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped, 45 mm width (1 3/4″)
- Saddle
- Natural bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped
- Tuners
- Highest-quality single gold posts, ratio 1:18
- Binding
- Ebony (Master Grade)
- Fingerboard markers
- Side: Natural bone ø 2 mm at 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 (double), 15, 17 frets
- Frets
- 18% nickel-silver
- Cutaway
- No; Full-body version
- Scale length
- 700-740 mm (27.56″-29.13″)
- Varnish
- Highly-resonant, anti-static (own recipe), hand polished, high-gloss
- Inlay
- Symbol – Glyph – made of natural Baltic amber
- Warranty
- Life-time
- Sound system
- D-TAR Wavelength Multi-Source Steel-String
- Hardcase
- High-quality