I believe traugott manages to buy a very large stash of high quality brazilian rosewood from a cabinet maker or some kind of artisan who was retiring at the time when he had just set up his own shop. He has been mainly using brazilian rosewood from that stash ever since.
I agree that he has some of the best brazilian rosewood of any luthier in the world today. I think the set on mine would have been seen as a primo set by Martin in the 1930s.
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Originally Posted by PhilT
Bump for a fantastic Traugott. I owned a Braz. Model R, without question one of the finest guitars ever. Jeff T.’s tonewoods are the absolute cream of the crop. Part of the reason Jeff’s guitars command such high price tags (in addition to his incredible skills as a luthier) is the high cost of the tonewoods he has procured and builds with - this stuff is not cheap. I would guess many Traugotts have as much, or close to, raw material cost to the builder in them as the price at which many fine guitars change hands on this forum!
Hope this one finds a new home and a grateful owner.
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