MAS Guitar

Acoustic

WL-35 Indian Rosewood / Sinker Redwood

Serial No:25494

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Description:

"1ST WEE: The Wee Lowden represents George Lowden’s long held dream of designing a small bodied guitar that didn't suffer from the inherent tonal ‘boxiness’ that can come with smaller bodied instruments. The guitar finally came about after Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody asked George to build a small-bodied guitar as a gift for Ed Sheeran. Having wanted to produce such a guitar for quite some time, George set about producing a brand new model and over the course of around 20 months the Wee Lowden came to life. Apparently, George spent a lot of time designing the bracing and soundbox geometry so that the sound remained warm and rich and the results are incredibly impressive for such a diminutive guitar. The WL35 features gorgeous Indian rosewood back and sides matched with a solid cedar top. Indian rosewood was chosen to tame the brightness and stiffness of the cedar, a wood that can be too crisp on smaller bodies when coupled with the wrong back and sides wood. Rosewood adds more body in the lower mids and happens to look stunning to boot! The top and back purfling is a stunning combination of sycamore, walnut, rosewood and mahogany with figured mahogany binding running all the way round, creating an incredibly classy look. Sycamore, rosewood and mahogany are also used for the soundhole rosette and look beautiful on the plain cedar top. A strong, five-piece mahogany and rosewood neck is matched with an incredibly dark ebony fretboard with ebony binding leading up to the simple, classy headstock with quality Schaller M6 tuners and matching ebony buttons. The bridge is a string-through design in rosewood completing a design that is understated in the best possible way whilst being incredibly impressive and beautiful at the same time. As you can see, there has been absolutely no scrimping when it comes to the material used for this beautiful instrument! "