6th or 7th string archtop featuring a Koa or Walnut back, Bubinga sap side, red cedar or sitka top, Very loud instrument using parralel bracing. Narrow neck for playability. Spanish Cedar neck. Smooth top hand wound 7th string pickup by Kent Amstrong, Hidden tone and volume control. Koa and Ebony bridge. Hand crafted Gilbert tuners. Saconi tail piece attachment. French Polish or Nitro-Cellulose. Red Cedar comes from an 400 years old tree from Stanley Park. Sitka from a 500 + years tree from the Sunshine Coast (from the old Larrivee factory)
6th stringsJazz archtop, featuring Koa top and Back, warmer sound using Budinga Sap side. X- bracing top. Narrow neck for playability. Spanish Cedar neck. Adjustable foating PAF hand wound pickup by Kent Amstrong, Hidden tone and volume control. Koa and Ebony bridge. Swiss made Shertler tuners. Tail piece attachment. French Polish or Nitro-Cellulose.
Powerful rhythm archtop, featuing Alaskan sitka top and quilted maple back, bubinga sap side, Very loud instrument using parralel bracing. Narrow neck for playability. Spanish Cedar neck. Hand wound Gold Foil Lollar pickup, Hidden tone and volume control. Koa and Ebony bridge. Swiss made Shertler tuners. Tail piece attachment. Nitro-Cellulose. Sitka top from a 500 + years tree from the Sunshine Coast (from the old Larrivee factory)Titanium Truss rod
Gipsy Archtop, co-designed with Paul Pigat, Engelmann top (Alaska), Ziricote back (Yucatan), Small offset rosette, bubinga sap side, Very loud instrument using a mixed parralel and fan bracing. Narrow neck for playability. Spanish Cedar neck. pickup by Kent Amstrong, Hidden tone and volume control. Koa and Ebony bridge. Hand crafted Gilbert tuners. Custom tail piece attachment. Nitro-Cellulose. Titanium Truss rod.
Small archtop 15.5inch featuring Red Cedar or Sitka top, Walnut or Koa back, Bubinga sap side, loud instrument using X-bracing. Narrow neck for playability. Spanish Cedar neck. Floating single coil hand wound blues pickup by Kent Amstrong, Hidden tone and volume control. Koa and Ebony bridge. Swiss made Shertler tuners. Saconi tail piece attachment. French Polish or Nitro-Cellulose. Red Cedar comes from an 400 years old tree from Stanley Park. Sitka from a 500 + years tree from the Sunshine Coast (from the old Larrivee factory)
Loud red cedar, thin red cedar top (from a dead still standing tree from northen British Columbia). Light X-shape bracing. Highly figured Koa back and sides. Redwood burl inlay around rosette. Spanish cedar neck with carbon fiber rod. Frenh Polished finished.
7th string classical, redwood sinker wood (salvaged underwater from a lake in Oregon). Quilted bubinga back and sides. narrow spanish cedar neck for playability. Hand made Gilbert Tuners. Smaller rosette hole for deeper projection. Abalone and mother of pearl inlay as well as mother of pearl inlay runnig around the purfling (front and back). Carbon fiber neck rod. Frenh Polished finished.
6th string classical, dark redwood sinker wood (salvaged underwater from a lake in Oregon). Highly figured ziricote back and sides. narrow spanish cedar neck for playability. Hand made Gilbert Tuners. Smaller rosette hole for deeper projection. Mother of pearl inlay as well as mother of pearl inlay runnig around the purfling (front and back). Carbon fiber neck rod. Frenh Polished finished.
The violin shape is based on the Stradivari “Viotti” from 1709, Cremona, Italy
The top is made of 2 piece Engelmann spruce, quarter-sawn, of very light weight. The back is made of old growth European maple, quarter-sawn with nearly horizontal curl. The neck is made of Russian maple. The fingerboard is Gabon ebony. The finish is Oil Varnish on the entire instrument apart from the neck that is French Polish (Shellac). Color is yellow / orange ground with amber.
Played by Marcus Takizawa
The viola shape is based on a Stradivari model, Cremona, Italy.
The top is made of 2 piece Russian spruce, quarter-sawn. The back is made of old growth European maple, quarter-sawn with nearly horizontal curl. The neck is made of Russian maple. The fingerboard is Gabon ebony. The finish is Oil Varnish on the entire instrument apart from the neck that is French Polish (Shellac). Color is yellow / orange ground with amber.
