This DS Custom is a "Sinker" Mahogany Slope D with a very high grade Adirondack spruce top and a subtle and artful old Gibson style, reddish-brown, two color sunburst.
The Sinker Mahogany story...
Our supplier of this special wood recently came by with more back and side sets. It is really nice, old growth Mahogany and produces a really rich tone and volume palate on a higher plane than our standard mahogany. We immediately sold about half of them, but we have a few sets left. These were, as described below in our supplier's words, VERY dense logs:
"If you like wood with a story, then it doesn't get any better than this material. This is material from the bottom of Belizean rivers. Belize used to be a British colony. The British exported a lot of Mahogany from Belize throughout history and during the 19th century they used the rivers of Belize as their main source of transportation. Occasionally the denser Mahogany logs would sink! These logs for over 100 years had been lost and forgotten, until now!
All the logs where salvaged using environmentally sound practices using small boats and pulleys to remove these logs off the bottom of the rivers. The logs were cut in Belize using local labor. Hence this is a very eco-friendly product. The material was kiln dried in Belize but has been re-stickered to give the piles air flow to allow them to air dry even more. Due to the age of these logs, all this material would have been old growth timber. The color is excellent and the grain is tight. Some of the material is even figured. Plus the material has a very interesting natural edge. The texture has been sculpted by the river and is very pleasing to the eye."
As beautiful and tasty as it looks, the real story is a great voice and feel for flatpicking and strumming that is excellent for fingerstyle. Like most round shouldered D's, this one has a little more midrange and pop because of the radiused top and the larger soundhole. With it's "Sinker" Mahogany body and Adirondack top, this is an all around singer-songwriter type guitar and more than a few fingerstyle players, like these slope D's because of it's balance and bigger midrange voice.
Features:
- Sinker Mahogany back and sides
- Adirondack spruce top
- Spanish cedar neck
- Ebony fingerboard and saddle
- Bone nut and saddle
- Ivoroid binding with 2 ply black
- Lovely grained ivoroid and ebony rosette
- Fancy snowflake/diamond fretboard markers
- Sunburst Top
- Nickel Waverly tuners
- Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay
- 1 23/32" nut width
- 25.4" scale length
For more information, call us toll free at 1-866-331-8893 or email sales@thepodium.com.
| Model: |
DS-CUSTOM |
| Manufacturer: |
Huss & Dalton |
