2016-007 - May. Labelled, dated and signed by the maker.
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.
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.
Robson tuning machines with plain brass Hauser-shaped side-plates, white rollers and kidney-shaped, ebony buttons
65cm on an ebony fingerboard with 19 frets (plus 20th for the 1st string).
52 mm at the nut with 44.5 mm string spacing.
1758 grams
New. All shellac french-polished.
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.David Pelter - Click here to find out more about this maker
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