Serial Number 041

Started on April 21, 2025

This is going to be another guitar build where ideas will be taken from other companies. I am honestly not sure how it will work out as I have just seen some pictures and haven’t really researched into the structural changes made to make these guitars work.

The body for this will have two sound holes but they will be on the upper bout. The biggest thing here would be to have a hole large enough to get a hand in there to tighten up the bolts for the neck. When I built S/N 0039, the sound hole was smaller than it should have been but I was lucky enough that it was still big enough to get my hand in there.

The second thing for this guitar would be the bridge; I have seen a discussion about bridge lift and somebody posted a picture of a bridge in which the bridge pin holes were separate from the bridge. It might have been flush (or not) with the soundboard but was a very unique and different approach to the bridge pins. I think this can eliminate bridge lift altogether and definitely worth a try.

I wanted a back and sides set that would stand out a little and from going through the pictures on the website, I thought one of the Ambrosia Maple sets would be a good candidate. With the soundboard, I was actually looking towards a set of Caucasian Spruce but the boards I was thinking of was a bit smaller than the Grand Concert mold. I looked through the inventory again and decided on a set of Engelmann.

Bloodwood was used for the arm bevel wood as well as some accent pieces around the sound hole cutouts. Not making the same mistake on S/N 039, I will use Bloodwood for the bridge to keep the colours consistent.

After looking through my selection of neck woods, twice, I reluctantly decided on Turkish Walnut. My first choice would have been White Limba for some reason but the last piece of White Limba is laminated with a board of Purple Heart in the middle. I wanted Bloodwood to be that middle piece to keep a Bloodwood colour theme going on the guitar.

SPECS

Body Grand Concert

Scale 24.9″

Top Engelmann Spruce 1A

Back Ambrosia Maple

Sides Ambrosia Maple

Neck  Turkish Walnut/Bloodwood strip

Fingerboard Tamarind

Bridge Bloodwood

Tuning Machines Gotoh 381

Strings D’Addario EJ26 Phosphor Bronze