Butterfly - 13 fret body join
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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.
You can listen to me playing "Calypso Medley" in DADGAD tuning on my own European Spruce/African Blackwood "Butterfly". The first piece is my own composition "Calypso" and the second is an arrangement of Donald Shaw's "Ornette's Trip to Belfast" taught to me by the great guitarist Ed Boyd.