Mango falcate OM with florentine cutaway

[lamanoditrento]

Hi All,

Stung up my 2ndbuild (1st steel string) the other day. Pretty happy with the sound, best balanced guitar I own. Learnt a ton and made plenty of mistakes including real trouble with the projected neck angle despite sooooo much prep work.

I have put in sound mass and the lower bout back brace is full height, but will let it settle in for a while before I look at doing any modal tuning. Specs are

Soundboard: Englemann spruce
Back & sides, h/s veneers
Neck: Tassy
Rosette & end graft: Mango & paua
Finish: Tru-oil

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[kiwigeo]

Nice work Trent....love the rosette and butt strip. Did you manage to do any tap testing on the instrument?

[lamanoditrento]

Thanks Martin

T111 @ 92.2Hz
T112@ 182Hz
T113 @ 219Hz

[Fisherman]

Looks great! Some really nice design details... love the headstock and the end butt joint design especially. Purfling colours match well with the back and sides too... is that bloodwood?

[lamanoditrento]

Thanks, the bindings are cocobolo and I forgot to mention the fretboard and bridge are riveroak