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Standard Guitar

Top:

Sitka, Canadian Engleman (AA grade or better)

Back and sides:

Indian Rosewood, Honduran Mahagony

Neck:

Honduran Mahagony

Fingerboard ,bridge and bridge pins:

Gaboon Ebony, standard belly bridge (Martin type). Bridge pins ebony with abalone dots

Nut and saddle:

Bone

Bindings, purflings and inlay:

Single abalone and black/white/black rosette. Lines around the top, Cherry
bindings on rosewood instruments and cocobolo on mahagony instruments.
Rosewood and white herringbone back stripe. Endplate of wood matching
the bindings, set off from the sides by black/white purflings. Ebony end pin
with abalone dot matches the bridge pins.

Fingerboard inlays in the form of a flower fashioned from German silver and
phosphor bronze at the 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th (double), 15th

Tuners:

Either Schaller or Gotoh gold plated machines standard.

Finish:

Satin nitrocellulose lacquer

For more information contact
Ivon Schmukler
8 Easthampton Road
Northampton, MA 01060
(413) 582-0034
ivon@leedsguitar.com



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