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Custom Acoustic Guitar Feature: Custom Concert Port Orford Cedar – East Indian Rosewood

This stunning custom Concert acoustic guitar was designed by Jessica’s Music, and featured a wide variety of custom options. The hand-tuned guitar body is constructed with East Indian rosewood back and sides and a Port Orford cedar top with a soft cutaway to access the upper register. The top is finished with a custom semi-gloss sunburst. There’s bloodwood binding found on the fretboard and body, and on the heel cap. The “hooks” inlay is mother of pearl and gold pearl.

Concert Body Shape: The Concert is our most popular body shape, favored by players because it is well-balanced, compact, comfortable to play, and offers all the qualities of a great sounding guitar. It generates a wonderfully articulate range of tone with an ample low end that is never boomy, but always felt. The Concert works well when played fingerstyle, as vocal accompaniment, or at a full strum. Learn more.

Port Orford Cedar: Port Orford cedar is a highly aromatic wood, delivering a subtle but powerful tone. Durable, stiff and strong with warm resonance. Very versatile acoustically. Like a combination of Sitka spruce and Western red cedar.  Light amber in color, and also quite aromatic like eucalyptus. Learn more.

East Indian Rosewood: East Indian rosewood has been a favored back tonewood used in stringed instruments for centuries. Known for its efficient transmission of bass tones and bright high notes, it has been the preferred back and sides tonewood since worldwide government restrictions have limited the availability of Brazilian and Madagascar rosewoods. It is often associated with the great dreadnoughts as its projection is loud and clear. East Indian rosewood’s sound contrasts with the midrange of Honduran mahogany…rosewood emphasizing the bass and highs, mahogany most pronounced in the midrange. EI rosewood specific gravity is 0.83 compared with mahogany’s 0.59. EI rosewood’s weight in pounds per cubic feet of 52 contrasts with mahogany’s 37. There are significant differences in the musical characteristics of these two most popular guitar back tonewoods. Many artists will own two instruments – a rosewood and a mahogany – alternating depending on the musical situation. Learn more.