Guitar #025 

Quilted Big Leaf Maple 12th fret Double O
with an AAA grade solid Sitka Top, a neck made of the same wood as the back and sides, Gibbon Ebony fret board and bridge, Abalone purfing. 

#025

Completed Feb 5, 2010

This guitar is real eye candy.  That's even before talking about it's surprising power.  

It's always a treat to hear how powerful and clear these little OO size guitar are.  This being a maple guitar, the wood also adds a bit of extra brightness to the mix.  This guitar gives a vary linier response to the intensity of playing.

Speaking of Maple...  This is not the maple most people are used to seeing.  Maple furniture, floors, cabinets, etc are usually made out of a very blond coloured, and very hard lumber that most often comes from the Sugar Maple trees of north eastern North America.  Sometimes Soft maple may be used as well, but Big Leaf is different from all these.  The Big Leaf Maple trees are native to only the coastal areas of western North America from Oregon to southern British Columbia.  If you have ever been out there and seen Maple leaves over a foot in size, that's the tree.  The figure of Big Leaf is strikingly different from the flame or birds eye people are familiar with in maple lumber, this pattern is usually called "Quilted".  It make for stunning luminescence.

The tone of Big Leaf Maple guitars are a little more warm than regular maple guitars mainly due to a lower stiffness and density, but still noticeably more bight than a Rosewood and even a Mahogany guitar.

	Top	Triple A grade solid Sitka top
	Rosette	4 Black/Maple/Black bands with one center Abalone band
	Bracing	Sitka Spruce
	Back and sides	Quilted Solid Big Leaf Maple
	Backstrip	Black/Maple zig zag
	Body Binding	Gibbon  Ebony
	Purfling	Gibbon Ebony, Maple/Black
	End graft	Gibbon Ebony
	Heal and Tail Blocks	Big Leaf Maple
	Kerfed Lining	Mahogany
	Neck	One peace Quilted Big Leaf Maple
	Head Cap	Gibbon Ebony
	Head Inlay	Female head in profile of Mother of Pearl, Abalone, and Quilted Big Leaf Maple.
	Neck heal cap	Gibbon Ebony
	Truss Rod	Twin rod two-way adjustable at head
	Fret Board	Gibbon Ebony
	Position Marks	2mm Abalone dots
	Fret Board Binding	Gibbon Ebony with a Maple pin line
	Bridge	Gibbon Ebony
	Bridge pins	Polished bone with an Abalone dot
	Bridge Saddle	Intonated bone
	Nut	Bone  1 3/4"
	End pin	Polished bone with an Abalone dot
	Tuners	Mini Gold Grover Rotomatic Guitar Machines
	Finish	French Polished Shellac

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