Jim Redgate of Adelaide, Australia

  • Year:

    2008 - number 293

  • Body:

    Rosewood - with very attractive colour and figuring.

  • Front:

    Canadian cedar with a fine-detailed rosette, padauk bridge with decorated tie-block having 12-hole tie system. The construction of the soundboard is a cedar-Nomex-cedar sandwich with fan-strutting underneath

  • Tuners:

    Graf - Celtic Weave sideplates with snakewood buttons.

  • Scale:

    65cm

  • Neck Width:

    53mm

  • Condition:

    Near mint. Other than a small area of the front, where the right arms comes over the side of the guitar, that has become slightly more shiny - nothing else to report.

  • Comments:

    Well - I think I can safely say this is the best Australian guitar I have played, by some margin. I find it less tight and with a less metallic, less latticey sound than the lattice-fronted Redgate guitars. It is a loud guitar but also one that is pleasing to play quietly, with a natural sound and less 'attack noise' than lattice guitars and some other sandwich-topped guitars. The tone colour can also be varied. A guitar clearly for the concert artist with power and musicality in plentiful supply.

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  • Price:
    Sold September 2009
  • Availability:
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