Ryosuke Kobayashi RS "THE GRANADILLO"

[Guitars44me]

Your appreciation and love of beautiful wood is easy to see in each build you have shared here.

Spectacular and understated at the same time. Let the woods do the singing!

Thanks for sharing!!!

Cheers

Paul

[stringjunky]

Super job.

[David Wren]

Absolutely beautiful ... very inspiring!

[cigarfan]

Such an exquisite looking instrument! Gorgeous woods and flawless execution.

And regards to WILS, it is my recollection you were deep in conversation when I past your booth and I did not swing back. My loss!

[Halcyon/Tinker]

Beauty! Don't believe I've ever seen flamed grenadillo before...

[IBKuz]

The Lutz top is really nice, the streaking is pronounced but subtle and even. The medullary rays are very strong and they blend well across the centre seam. A very beautiful top.

I also like the sap wood that is showing. The strip on the neck blends very well with the others on the sides, back, and bridge. Even the colour of the neck matches very well with the sap wood. In particular, the blend at the headplate and fretboard is well thought out with the matching headplates front and back a nice added touch. Your sense of balance/symmetry is very appealing for me on this build.

You also use a raised fretboard fairly often from what I can see on your website, is this a favourite way that you like to build, or are these customer requests?

[Bill Kraus]

Nice granadillo.

[LouieAtienza]

Originally Posted by Ryo Kobayashi

Thank you very much for viewing this thread!

Absolutely beautiful! The double purfling detail on the sides really sets this apart in it's elegance...

[Stevied63]

Very beautiful instrument! Well done!

[Deft Tungsman]

WOW !! What a marvel !! Congratulations, sir !!

[jessupe]

Spectacular wood, never seen flamed Grendillio. Nice built in tornavoz

[gitarro]

As usual kobayashi guitars are real lookers!

[AcousticDreams]

Absolutely stunning! Will you be able to provide a sound clip from this guitar? What do you believe are the sound characteristics of this wood?

[mikealpine]

That is an interesting (in a very good way) aesthetic design, love how the coloring works throughout the guitar. I also admire how you are humble in the midst of your obvious talent. This is a stunning guitar. If you have an opportunity to post some sound samples, that would be fantastic. Thank you for documenting this build.

[Ryo Kobayashi]

Originally Posted by TomB'sox

Outstanding. I love the bevel treatment you did around the sound port!!! How will the granadillo hold up as a figure board vs. ebony?

Thank you very much.
Are you talking about the fingerboard? If so, it's as durable as hard kind of rosewood. The density and the hardness of this particular Granadillo is about the same as Madagascar rosewood. The fingerboard is laminated with Macassar ebony and this guitar has a raised fingerboard(much more mahogany where fingerboard is the weakest). Structurally no problem. Conversely, I laminated the fingerboard and did a raised neck to make this crazy figured fingerboard structurally ok.
Ryo

Originally Posted by Guitars44me

Your appreciation and love of beautiful wood is easy to see in each build you have shared here.

Spectacular and understated at the same time. Let the woods do the singing!

Thanks for sharing!!!

Cheers

Paul

Thank you very much Paul san.
I hope I can have a market in Western countries!
Ryo

Originally Posted by stringjunky2

Super job.

Thank you very much!

Originally Posted by David Wren

Absolutely beautiful ... very inspiring!

Thank you very much Dave! Hope to see you soon in the near future.

Originally Posted by cigarfan

Such an exquisite looking instrument! Gorgeous woods and flawless execution.

And regards to WILS, it is my recollection you were deep in conversation when I past your booth and I did not swing back. My loss!

Thank you very much.
Oh, I see. I hope I can come join the show again!
"See you there."