Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

David Rubio workshop - Kazuo Sato

• Year:

  1971

• Body:

  Attractive Indian? rosewood - with good quarter-sawn, straight grain - very stable and very beautiful.

• Front:

  European spruce with the famed vine-leaves rosette, matching double-line purflings and rosewood bridge

• Tuners:

  Fustero or Fustero-style with synthetic m-o-p buttons. These are the originally-fitted tuning machines.

• Scale:

  65cm

• Neck Width:

  53.5 mm at the nut, but with 44mm string-spacing like many guitars with 52mm nut.

• Weight:

  1487 grams

• Condition:

  It is very tempting to call this 'mint condition' bearing in mind it is a 40-year old guitar. It is in superb, original conditon; no repairs, no cracks, original finish, and really very light playing marks. There are a few shallow nail marks on the front and a few minor polish scratches on the back - but really, much of it looks as new and has a general condition that could not be expected for a guitar of this vintage.

• Comments:

  Apart from looking like new, it has a feel also like a new guitar, probably because over the years it has only been played a little and quite lightly. By comparison with many Rubio guitars, it is quite light in weight and perhaps consequently, has a body air resonance nicely between F# and G which give is a deep and very focussed bass. With just a little playing and with new strings, the treble is opening up very nicely.
  This is one of the most pleasing Rubio workshop guitars I have played and at the same time is in unexpectedly fine condition - hence a rare opportunity.

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• Price:
  Sold August 2010. Please enquire if others available.
• AVAILABILITY
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