This Lowden F50c Brazilian Rosewood – Sinker Redwood is built with mastergrade tonewoods. The Brazilian Rosewood is very dark-colored and straight figured wood with nice clear stripes. only chooses the best quality of Brazilian Rosewood. The complexity of the tone, the overtones and clarity hit you immediately! Weight and stiffness make the guitar light and instant responder to light finger touch including unbelievably good three-dimensional sound qualities. Superb clarity of the treble notes. After you hit the bass strings and move up to the trebles, you are taken by the fullness of the notes.
The striped Sinker Redwood gives her a classy look. The top is made from Mastergrade Striped Sinker Redwood. These tops typically display a rich optical spectrum as the result of colors uniquely imparted from silt and the mineral-rich water. The age and size of these trees translates into a tight grain with delightful cross-grain stiffness and offers a fairly bold response, with a brilliance complemented by warm overtones similar to Cedar but with a little extra brightness and headroom. Sinker Redwood trees originate from California and are often 1000 to 2000-year-old. These trees are only used when they have fallen naturally. The ‘Sinker’ designations tells you it’s been on the banks of the river for at least 100 year. Combined with the pretty Brazilian set selected by George, she gives you an instrument that excels in almost any style.
Specifications
- Back & Sides: Master grade Brazilian Rosewood
- Soundboard: Master grade Sinker Redwood
- Rosette: figured Koa and Abalone rosette
- Binding: figured Koa
- Bevel: figured Koa
- Purfling: Maple, Rocklite, Mahogany
- Tuners: Gotoh Gold/Ebony 510
- Back centre seam: Figured Koa
- Bridge: Black Rosewood
- Neck: Mahogany/Rosewood
- Fingerboard: Ebony with Ebony/Maple binding
- Headstock overlay: Ebony (front and back)
- Fret markers: side
- Body size: F
- Nut Width: 45 mm
- Serial #: 25179
- Frets to body: 14
- Cutaway: yes
- Pickguard: clear
- Documentation: CITES certificate, warranty certificate and provenance document
- Case: Lowden branded Ameritage black/grey
- Pickup: Optional
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