This large guitar has an engleman spruce top and rosewood back and sides. The fingerboard is bound ebony with the peghead and body bound in maple. The backstrip, tail inlay and rosette are of rewa rewa, a New Zealand decorative timber.

This instrument pictured was made for a player in Austin, Texas, who asked for twelve frets to the body, a wide fingerboard, and two sound ports in the sides near the neck heel. These ports are designed to enhance the tone, and experiments with this instrument showed that they do increase sound quality, adding more "depth" to the tone.

The size and sound of the instrument earned it the nickname "The Dominator" in the workshop.
The scale length is 640 mm (251/4in.) and body depth is 95 mm (33/4 ins) at the heel and 115 mm (41/2 in.) at the tail block. The neck width is 48 mm (17/8 in.) at the nut. the guitar has been finished in a gloss hand rubbed laquer.

Price of similar instrument: NZ$3,600 with hard case (convert currency)