Nylon / No. 455
no. 455 – ArcFret™ – Lilia
The story
First in the World luthier guitar introduces the following innovations:
- VII generation ACOUSTIC TUBES inside the guitar neck,
- top with IX generation WAVE type resonator
- back & sides made in IV generation HIGH-TECH PRESS
- SIGMOIDAL JOINT of the guitar sides
Specifications
- Solid top
- Alpine Spruce from Tirol / Western Red Cedar (Master Earth Grade)
- Back & Sides
- Pepperwood Burl (Master Grade) – back; Black California Walnut Burl with sapwood (Rustic Grade) – sides
- Scale
- 650 mm
- Neck
- Asymmetric Turkowiak neck made of flamed sycamore maple
- Bridge
- African Ebony, chamfered with custom shaped tie block inlaid with natural Baltic amber and natural bone, inlaid with natural Baltic amber lilly pads
- Fingerboard
- Elevated, African Ebony (Master Grade)
- Head
- Plates / Alpine Spruce from Tirol / Western Red Cedar (Earth Master Grade), binded with African Ebony
- Shape
- Custom – guitar body, chamfered, with custom curved tuning machines slots
- Logo
- Flamed Sycamore Maple
- Rosette
- Guitar body shaped, inlaid with reconstituted malachite and clover green stone, Alpine Spruce from Tirol, Western Red Cedar (Earth Master Grade), natural bone
- Arm bevel
- Smooth, Ebony, integrated with the guitar body, 20 mm width
- Palm bevel
- Smooth, Ebony
- Heel
- Cap / African Ebony (Master Grade)
- Logo
- Natural Baltic amber
- Nut
- 52 mm, natural bone, hand-shaped and polished
- Saddle
- Natural bone, hand-shaped, polished and semi-scalloped
- Tuners
- Single Gold Rodgers with reconstituted stone buttons, extended aluminum rollers with bearings
- Binding
- African Ebony (Master Grade)
- Purfling
- Natural bone outline with 4 mm diameter reconstituted malachite stone dots at the bass side of the soundboard
- Fret markers positions
- Lilly pod shaped made of reconstituted clover green stone at 3, 5, 9, 12, 15, 17, 21, 24 at the fingerboard, African Ebony dots at 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 47 positions and reconstituted malachite stone at 27, 29, 31, 33, 36, 39, 41, 43, 45, 48
- Frets
- ArcFret™, 18% nickel-silver
- Varnish
- Highly-resonant, antistatic (own recipe), hand-polished, high-gloss
- Inlay
- Fret markers made of natural Baltic amber filling and natural bone frame; ‘Lilia’ at the headplate made of natural Baltic amber
- Engraving
- Lily pad on the soundboard
- Soundport
- Single, eliptical on the side
- Golpeador
- Transparent, guitar body shape
- Sound system
- Carlos VIP Double M (pickup+mic)
- Warranty
- Life-time
- Design
- Timur Slavov