A-2 German spruce / Madagascar rosewood

Select German spruce top

Madagascar RW back & sides

Honduran mahogany neck

Ebony fretboard, bridge, headplate & end wedge

Cocobolo bindings, backplate & heel cap

Snakewood tuner buttons, bridge & end pins

Waverly gold tuners

Hide glue construction

Oil varnish finish

1 3/4" nut width

2 5/16" bridge string spacing

25.6"scale (650mm)

Particularities:

Double sides (red spruce inside layer), with triple sides on the upper bout (+ cocobolo), double arrow purfling around the top, purfling and binding around fretboard, headplate and heel cap.

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"The Essential" A-2 Carpathian spruce / wenge

Carpathian spruce top

Wenge back & sides, headplates, end wedge and heel cap

African mahogany neck

Gabon ebony fretboard, bridge & pins

Ivoroid binding

Celluloid nitrate pickguard

Shertler black chrome tuners

K&K Pure Western Mini pickup

EVO 55090 fretwire

Oil varnish finish

Particularities: rectangular end grain ivoroid side markers.

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Recorded in stereo with 2 small cardioid mics.

A-1c Red spruce / African Blackwood

Red spruce top

African blackwood back, sides, headplates, end wedge, heel cap, bindings, fretboard & bridge

Wenge neck & bridge pins

Shertler tuners

Oil varnish finish

Recorded with 2 x small cardioid mics
 11-52 80/20 strings

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A-2 "The Eighteen" Deluxe Carpathian spruce / Honduran mahogany

25" scale

1 3/4" nut width

2 5/16" bridge pin spacing

Carpathian spruce top

Honduran mahogany back & sides

Spanish cedar neck

Brazilian rosewood headplate, end graft & heel cap

Cocobolo bindings

Ebony fretboard, bridge & pins

Waverly "relic" tuning machines

Oil varnish finish

Particularities: Martin OOO pre-war inspired build, "flat-top" built under tension, radiused back, straight bridge, paddlehead, non capped back braces.

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