I've just returned to this forum, and will begin to pick up pieces of threads from long ago.
Imported New World
Estudio models include 650mm [~25 5/8"] string length
Cutaway w. 52mm nut and
Fingerstyle w. 48mm nut; 2 3/8" string spacing at the saddle. Includes gigbag.
New World
Player models include 650mm string length
Cutaway w 52mm nut and 640mm string length
Fingerstyle w. 48mm nut radiused fingerboard; 2 3/8" string spacing at the saddle. Includes arched hardshell case.
Guitars are sold stock without pickup. We now install
Barbera soloist pickup. These guitars are stock and other than the pickup.
Domestic
Hill models are more customize-able as you can see from these
photos of custom guitars - #1.
Stage BZ rosewood, 3/4 body [18" length, 13" lower bout, 3.25" depth] 1 7/8" nut radiused fingerboard, spruce/nomex/cedar double top. lattice braced, sound port,
Barbera Soloist pickup, compensated nut, 12 hole bridge.
#2 Full size Macassar Ebony
Crossover w. stand up ergonomic body; otherwise specs are the same as above.
We are a classical builder. In addressing the needs and desires of certain classical and fingerstyle players, we have tried to find the most representative non coloring pickup, which is the
Barbera.
http://www.barberatransducers.com/guitar_pickups.html Consistent with our desire to have the instrument sound amplified like it does acoustically, we've been happy with this.
From that, from time to time we have been asked to make a nylon string
Crossover model and a thinner smaller bodied
Stage model reducing feedback. The
Barbera transducer itself being the saddle w/o microphone is very feedback resistant to start with. And, we've found the pickup material to resemble bone making the saddle replacement transparent when the instrument is played acoustically.
2018 will see both of these models lining up as standard offerings in our catalog - Indian rosewood is the standard back and side wood with spruce or cedar lattice braced double tops as a choice. Many other woods are available for back and sides. Built to order.
LD