Upcycling: Cider Barrel Guitar Fingerstyle No 2
Back, Sides and Top Oak – Inlay Cider Glass

Oak wood for a guitar? From an old barrel? Yes, that works and not only for back and sides but also for the top. This is guitar no. 2 of our upcycling project consistently built of local woods, in which a Hessian cider Oak barrel plays a major role.

Description
Cider Barrel
The Raw Material

Woods

The Local Wood Challenge invites luthiers to rethink by building guitars from local woods. This requirement was not enough for us, which is why we experimented with domestic Oak from a cider barrel. At the same time, we also acted in a resource-saving manner. The project was a complete success! Not only the back and sides, but also the top is consistently built from the Oak of this barrel. In some places, the wood visually reveals its origin and therefore has a very special charm.

The neck of this fingerstyle is made of alder, fingerboard, bridge, bindings, tail wedge, and headstock of local plum and the rosette of maple.

Equipment

For the body shape, we opted for a fingerstyle guitar with a scale length of 630 mm and a neck-body transition at 12th fret. Our trademark Spanish neck, light, balanced design, domed top, of course, can not be missed on this particular model. The bracing was specially adapted to the peculiarities of the Oak . As an important distinguishing feature, the fingerboard features the typical Hessian cider glass over 11th to 13th fret.

Schaller Grand Tune machine heads complete the look. The strings are, as usual, by Elixir. For this piece of craftsmanship we chose a case by Artur Benedykt .

The Disjointed Cider Barrel

Handling and Sound

What really took us by surprise is the frequency spectrum of the Oak. Where we would have expected a performance similar to an all-mahogany guitar, instead we were confronted with a very clean bass, a little more slender, than the Oak sister with spruce top or a similar model with Rosewood back and sides, but still powerful. An expressive low midrange and articulated, clear highs complete the sound characteristics.

This instrument turns out to be an all-round-talent for guitarists who are on "Old-Timey Music". Not only fingerpicking, but also flatpicking and strumming are possible. These talents combined with the tonal range transport vintage sound into the new age.

Like all our models, this guitar shows its skills from the very beginning. Neck shaping, nut width and string position are optimised for the range of applications.

Collecting the guitar personally includes free cider tasting.

Photos

Specifications
Type:

Steel String Guitar

Back/Sides: Oak, Cider Barrel
Top: Oak, Cider Barrel
Neck: Alder, spanish constructed heel
Neck Width at Nut: 46 mm
Scale Length: 630 mm
Fingerboard: Plum
Nut/Bridge: Bone
Machine Heads: Schaller Grand Tune
Strings: Elixir
Finish: Nitrocellulose, satin-gloss
Weight: 1,850 g
More:

Building the Cider Barrel Guitars
Guitar from Cider Barrel No. 1
Guitar from Cider Barrel No. 3
Ambition Fingerstyle standard
12-fret-guitars
Local Wood Challenge
Leonardo Guitar Research Project
Our Concept
How to order a STOLL
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Price: € 6,000.-
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