Bass / No. 456
Luthier’s 6-string acoustic bass guitar no. 456 – Concorde
The story
First in the world luthier acoustic bass guitar with the following innovations:
- VII generation ‘ACOUSTIC TUBES’ inside the guitar neck with natural Baltic amber outlets
- Top with a X generation ‘WAVE’ resonator
- B&S made in IV generation ‘HIGH-TECH PRESS’
- SIGMOIDAL JOINT of the guitar sides
Specifications
- Frets amount
- 15 to body; 24 total
- Double-Top
- Alpine Spruce from Tirol (Master Grade)(top) / Old-growth Redwood (Master Grade)(bottom)
- Back&Sides
- Amboyna Burl with sapwood (Master Grade)
- Neck
- Asymmetric Turkowiak neck made of flamed sycamore maple (Master Grade), dual-action double truss rod
- Fingerboard
- Elevated, Exotic Ebony (Master Grade), binded, compound radius: 47″
- Plates
- Front: natural Baltic amber; back: Exotic Ebony (Master Grade)
- Shape
- Open (Modern / Hollow)
- Logo
- Natural mammoth bone
- Bridge
- Pinless, Exotic Ebony (Master Grade), hand-shaped, encrusted with natural Baltic amber and natural bone
- Soundholes
- Front: Slightly offset Concorde shaped, binded with Ebony (Master Grade); back: diagonal with Exotic Ebony (Master Grade) directional wing-bracing, binded with Ebony (Master Grade)
- Heel
- Cup / Ebony
- Logo
- Natural Baltic amber
- Armrest
- Ebony, integrated with the guitar body, width 20 mm
- Nut
- Natural mammoth bone, hand-shaped and polished, width 52 mm
- Saddle
- Natural mammoth bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped
- Tuners
- Highest-quality, with ebony buttons, black aluminum rollers and white mother of pearl screw reinforcements, ratio 18:1
- Binding
- Ebony (Master Grade)
- Fingerboard markers
- Natural mammoth bone ø 1.5 mm at 3, 5, 9, 15, 17, 19 frets and concentric natural mammoth bone ø 3 mm at 7, 12 (double) frets inlaid with natural Baltic amber
- Frets
- EVO-GOLD (nickel-free)
- Cutaway
- Florentine (Sharp)
- Scale length
- 34” (863,6 mm)
- Varnish
- Highly-resonant, anti-static (own recipe), hand polished, high-gloss
- Thumbrest
- Exotic Ebony (Master Grade) – Concorde shaped
- Inlay
- Full Fingerboard Concorde inlays made of natural Baltic amber
- Marquetry
- Back, made with Flamed Sycamore Maple and African Ebony
- Warranty
- Life-time
- Hardcase
- High-quality