I put some thoughts about walnut in my last post there.
Claro walnut back and sides.
It is salvaged from the san joaquin valley.
Walnut is a beautiful wood for luthiers to use in building acoustic archtop guitars.
I really need to redo those.
This gerber rl15 model was a tnag bespoke service custom order and features sensational claro walnut for the back and sides and a wonderful swiss moon spruce top.
Claro walnut is a stunningly beautiful wood with rich color and clear ringing tone.
Some of the most stunning breedlove custom guitars have been crafted with walnut back and sides on occasion even walnut tops.
Photo is typical of the set you could expect when purchasing.
Claro walnut is a medium sized tree of short bulky proportions.
That one has a red spruce top and swiss alpine braces with claro walnut back and sides.
62 00 please check out our back side set dimension page to see which size fits yours needs.
It grows up to 30 60 feet 9 1 18 3 m tall has a single erect trunk commonly without branches for 10 40 feet 3 0 12 2 m and a crown that.
The rl15 is an evolution of ryan gerber s rl15 model.
Maybe after i put on a new set of strings for martinfest.
Plain walnut back sides.
5 x 31 1 2 x 0 130 127mm x 800mm x 3 3mm claro walnut juglans hindsii native to northern california few woods rival the beauty of claro walnut.
The guitar has a custom cross inlay on the back of the headstock.
Waas17994 claro walnut acoustic guitar back side set classical size salvaged from commercial grove good color contrast stellar luthier wood 2 panels each 0 18 x 7 6 x 21 75 s2s and 2 panels each 0 18 x 5 8 x 32 2 s2s 139 95.
Sound file from june 2017 i recorded these clips when the guitar was about a month old.