Readymades
| This spruce-top guitar has a strong, clear sound with full upper partials from Eb to the high-C on Et. The back & sides are of Madagascar rosewood, an excellent substitute for Brazilian. The soundboard finish is padded satin varnish, very thin for maximum resonance. | |
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Currently new guitars are available from my workshop both as readymade and as custom-made instruments . A readymade guitar is one with a standard set of features and specifications which I have found are most often sought by guitarists. A custom-made guitar is one that you design yourself from a set of available options. About one to two guitars of my annual production of approximately ten guitars are set aside for readymade sales; the remainder are set aside for custom-made instruments and dealer sales. Whether readymade or custom-made, a guitar from my workshop is always luthier-made (as opposed to factory-made), by one luthier, yours truly. There is no difference in the amount of individualized TLC invested in the instrument. A readymade guitar from my workshop may or may not be recently completed, but it will always be new, i.e. never owned by anyone but me, and free from player damage (nail marks, belt buckle scratches, etc.). Readymade guitars are offered on this website on a first-come-first-serve basis. They are sold on approval, which gives players who have not yet tried a Jacobson guitar a chance to test-drive one before making a commitment to buy. This also meets the needs of those guitarists who, as a matter of principle, will not purchase any guitar, no matter how well they may know the builder's work, without a chance to try it. You can learn immediately when a readymade guitar becomes available by signing up for my Email List. Even if you're not in the market now but think there's a possibility you might be interested in a Jacobson guitar some time in the future, you should get on the list. Readymade guitars usually have a 650mm scale (but occasionally 640mm), mostly cedar soundboards (occasionally spruce) and other features which I have found to be most commonly preferred. The one feature open to substitution is tuners, which are very easy to remove and replace. |
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