"Nancy" and "William" were conceived as a matching pair of small bodied guitar and guitar-bouzouki and their naming comes from the frequency of appearances in traditional English songs. I have always loved small bodied guitars - the first "proper" guitar I bought was a Lowden S25. Small guitars are comfortable to play, I love their look and feel and they have a tone and projection that belies their size. "Nancy" and "William's" design was dictated by some wonderful pieces of Old Rio Rosewood I came across in my local harware store which became - my first two creations!
"Nancy" has great tone and volume and also works well as a blues/slide guitar. The 16 frets clear of the body gives great upper neck access and in my opinion works better than a cutaway.
Specification:
Scale length:
650mm (or 644mm)
Top:
European spruce
Back/Sides:
Indian Rosewood
Lower bout width:
349mm
Upper bout width:
254mm
Waist width:
203mm
Overall length:
1,106mm
Max rim depth:
102mm
Neck:
Mahogany bolt on with two way adjustable truss rod and twin carbon fibre rods
Tuners:
Gotoh gold
Nut/width:
Bone, 46mm
Saddle/String spacing:
Split bone saddle, 56mm
Bridge:
Pinless or slotted pinned, Macassar ebony
Fingerboard:
Ebony bound with ebony, bwb purfling, radiused, 2.5mm MoP side dot markers
Frets:
21 heavy Japanese
Binding:
Maple, bwb purfling, De Faoite Standard Rosette, end graft matching binding.
Finish:
Top, back and sides are either hand rubbed-precatalysed lacquer or French Polished and toped with thin coats of Tru-oil. Tru-oil neck.
