Tom Rodriguez 20th Anniversary Brazilian/Sitka - Dealer Post
 

Thomas Rodriguez has been in the business long enough to recognize great opportunities to acquire unique materials when they arise. Twenty years later and he's amassed a collection of impressive woods, ivories, and pearl--the perfect treasure house from which to build his 20th Anniversary Guitar. The sheer historicity of this guitar's constituent parts is staggering: woods range from 40-year-old Sitka Spruce to 1800s Brazilian Rosewood salvaged from an old tabletop, or 1800s Honduran Mahogany for the neck from an old four-post bed. Right down to the braces, Sitka harvested from a 1925 Cable piano, or the Ivory tieblock on the bridge (formerly a key from an 1860s square piano), or even the position marker on the fingerboard which Thomas fashioned out of the Mother-Of-Pearl from an 1850s Martin bridge pin encased in a thin Nitrocellulose Lacquer finish.

The voice of this guitar is at once elegant and exciting, with a mesmerizing clarity that's colored by a sweet bouquet of overtones from the treble strings. Each string sings like a guitar unto itself, and there's an almost meditational quality to the smoothness of the voice and the glassy play feel. Just breathing on the strings can excite sustain for days. The bass register appears to defy geometry: how can so much depth come from a regular-sized guitar? Exploring those depths is akin to deep sea diving, while the profound richness is warm and enveloping like blankets of heat from a fireplace whose fire has subsided into the quiet intensity of yellow-red embers.

Cash Price: $19,995 - For more information, please call the shop at 828-658-9795 or click here: https://www.dreamguitars.com/shop/ro...classical.html

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Cash Price: $19,995 - For more information, please call the shop at 828-658-9795 or click here: https://www.dreamguitars.com/shop/ro...classical.html

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