This is a 13 fret clear of the body guitar with 655mm scale length (650mm is an option at no extra cost). It is based on my 50th birthday present - an African Blackwood guitar with a gorgeous butterfly figure on the back, hence the name, and that is the guitar pictured here. The guitar was designed to ensure as much as possible of this gorgeous wood was used. It is a good compromise between a 12fret and 14 fret clear of the body guitar and is well suited to open/modal tunings for both fingerstyle and strumming. For more details on 13 fretters see Paul Hostetter's website.
You can hear a recording of my European spruce/African blackwood Butterfly here.
Specification:
Scale Length:
655mm (or 650mm)
Top:
European spruce
Back/Sides:
Indian Rosewood
Lower bout width:
362mm
Upper bout width:
311mm
Waist width:
229mm
Overall length:
1,029mm
Max rim depth:
111mm
Neck:
Mahogany bolt on with 2 way adjustable truss-rod and twin carbon fibre rods.
Tuners:
Gotoh, gold
Nut/width:
Bone, 46mm
Saddle/string spacing:
Split bone, 55mm
Bridge:
Pinless or slotted pinned, Macassar ebony
Fingerboard:
Ebony bound with ebony, bwb purfling, raduised, 2.5mm MoP side dot markers
Frets:
20 heavy Japanese
Binding:
Maple, bwb purfling. De Faoite Standard Rosette. End graft matching binding
Finish:
Top, back and sides are either hand rubbed pre-catalysed lacquer or French Polished and toped with thin coats of Tru-oil. Tru-oil neck.
