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Made of Engleman Spruce and Mahogany – A large guitar with a big sound built for finger style recording. Heel depth 95 mm (3 3/4 in) tail block depth 115 mm (4 1/2 in). Scale length is 640 mm (25 1/4 in) with a venetian cutaway and rosewood fingerboard, binding and bridge. It has a dovetail neck joint with the rosette made from segments of rewa rewa, an ornamental New Zealand wood. The instrument has a bound headstock with paua inlay and neck dots. Bone intonated saddle and nut. The guitar pictured below was nicknamed 'Suzie' by her Canadian owner
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Price of similar instrument: NZ$3,200 with hard case. (convert currency)