LOWDEN F-35 EBONY & SINKER REDWOOD
Many describe the past three decades as a golden age of acoustic-guitar production. The fruitful period has been characterised not only by the evolution of the instrument’s quality of timbre and response but by the exploration of alternative tonewoods by luthiers and players alike.
About 15 years ago, it was frightfully fashionable among custom-guitar buyers to opt for eye-catching woods. This modish movement may well have been more about looks than anything else but it led luthiers to explore some unlikely combinations for back and sides and soundboard materials.
Some of them proved to be sonic dead
