This DS Custom is a Indian Rosewood Slope D with a very high grade Adirondack spruce top and a subtle and artful old Gibson style, reddish-brown, two color sunburst. As beautiful and tasty as it looks, the real story is a great voice and feel for flatpicking and strumming that is still pretty darn good for fingerstyle. Warm, woody bass and midrange and ringing but complex highs and a very resonant, loud and clear voice are coupled with great note separation, but still with great sweetness and complexity (not easy to do). Huss and Dalton's square-shouldered D's are also world class dreadnoughts but the DS, like most round shouldered D's, have a little more midrange and pop. Hard to beat the big bass of the square-shouldered version for bluegrass but this one with its rosewood body, comes close and yet is a little nicer as an all around and singer-songwriter type guitar and more than a few fingerstyle players, including me, like these slope D's because of this balance and the bigger midrange voice.
Features:
- Indian rosewood 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 with ivoroid buttons
- Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay
- 1 23/32" nut width
- 25 1/2" scale length
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| Model: |
DS-RA-SB |
| Manufacturer: |
Huss & Dalton |
