Model B 6-String Acoustic Guitar

 

Here is my model B guitar in Red Spruce and 50 year old Indian Rosewood. It is a large-bodied 12 fret guitar and has a beveled cutaway which allows access to the upper frets yet maintains much more of the internal air volume than a normal cutaway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a detail of the backstrip and end graft of the same model B guitar. The tiles are splated maple inlaid between curly maple strips and the Indian Rosewood binding. The finish is a thin French Polish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a detail of a rosette and fingerboard termination. The rosette is Camphor burl bordered by curly maple. The fingerboard is bound in Koa and has Camphor burl purfling around its perimeter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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