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Oudtar-Thierry Andre Instruments - bowl-back acoustic guitar
Photos: Jean Fitzgerald

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- Ken Parker,
May 2021

Oudtar-Thierry Andre Instruments - bowl-back acoustic guitar
Oudtar-Thierry Andre Instruments - bowl-back acoustic guitar
Oudtar ///  (photos credits: Jean Fitzgerald)

-Bowl-back acoustic guitar - 2012 - 2013
 
Andre Instruments no.72
 
 
 
Dimensions: 101 x 37 x 21 cm
 
Scale length: 650mm
 
Neck width @ nut 44mm
 
String spacing @ bridge 54mm
 
Body length total: 50.5 cm
 
 
 
Materials:

Soundboard: Altitude Red spruce
 
Bracing material: Altitude Red spruce 
 
Back&sides: American cherry, bent monocoque, with dyed pearwood purflings
 
Neck: Honduran mahogany, carbon fiber reinforcements
 
Fretboard: Macassar ebony, bleached cow bone markers,  american cherry bindings
 
Headstock: Honduran mahogany, american cherry, and dyed pearwood veneers
 
Bridge: Gabon ebony, with bleached cow bone tie-block, and pearwood -Carré Rouge- inlay
 
Tuning machines: Grover Sta-tite open-back, nickel, with brass gear
 
Nut: bleached cow bone

Saddle: bleached cow bone
 
Finish: Copal varnish hand-rubbed, Linseed oil, tung oil
 
Strings: D'addario EXP16, phosphor bronze and steel
Oudtar-Thierry Andre Instruments - bowl-back acoustic guitar
Oudtar-Thierry Andre Instruments - bowl-back acoustic guitar
Oudtar-Thierry Andre Instruments - bowl-back acoustic guitar
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