Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

David Pelter of Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria.

• Year:

  2016-007 - May. Labelled, dated and signed by the maker.

• Body:

  5000 year-old bog oak - not a common timber for guitars but as a tonewood, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Highly figured and with the sides lined with maple. With slim, doubled purfling lines and kingwood bindings.
  Body length:- 483mm.
  Top bout:- 278 mm wide & 97 mm deep.
  Waist:- 238 mm & 100 mm deep.
  Bottom bout:- 363 mm wide & 100 mm deep.
  All shellac french-polished.

• Front:

  This is a spruce-Nomex-cedar double-top instrument with spruce-only (no carbon fibre) lattice bracing. The double top design with Nomex follows the design of Gernot Wagner & Matthias Dammann. The light lattice bracing is also aimed at volume and speed of sound release whilst trying to retain as much traditional sound as possible.

• Tuners:

  Robson tuning machines with plain brass Hauser-shaped side-plates, white rollers and kidney-shaped, ebony buttons

• Scale:

  65cm on an ebony fingerboard with 19 frets (plus 20th for the 1st string).

• Neck Width:

  52 mm at the nut with 44.5 mm string spacing.

• Weight:

  1758 grams

• Condition:

  New. All shellac french-polished.

• Comments:

  The David Pelter double-top guitars are designed for the performer needing that extra power and projection. Quoting David - "To generate more volume and enhance the dynamic range with deeper bass and more colourful trebles, I offer this double top sandwich construction. Such a soundboard is constructed from a 2.3 mm thick spruce or cedar top, routed out to receive a 1.6 mm Nomex interlayer. The inner face is then encapsulated with a further thin (0.6 mm) layer of spruce or cedar. I generally brace such tops using a scalloped lattice. Further benefits from double tops are enhanced projection and sustain with excellent balance and note separation."
  Having a G air resonance, this example has a bass warmth and bright, projecting treble. Whilst achieving much of the design objectives of the many Australian and German double-top and lattice guitars, these David Pelter instruments are at a fraction of those in price, hence very good and affordable value-for-money.

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• Price:
  Sold September 2016. Please enquire for next available.
• AVAILABILITY
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