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3 body sizes, ASAP, ASAPJ and ASAP Jumbo with choice of cedar or sitka spruce tops and mahogany or walnut backs and sides with wood bindings in standard form. Many other wood options. The ASAP with it's small body is an ideal fingerpicker, the ASAPJ has a deeper body and is 'strummier' while the ASAP Jumbo gives the big sound. Laminated maple and mahogany neck with veneer detail. For the six string versions, a choice of two different top bracings. Fine and scalloped for an open, balanced sound. Reflective and scalloped for a more focussed projected sound. The ASAP 12 string and ASAP B (acoustic bass guitar) share the Jumbo sized body with double X bracing. The ASAP and ASAPJ are available as nylon string models with a choice of classical or lightened X bracing. The Highlander pickup and preamp is the electro option. To my ears, the most natural, even, flat response of any pickup I have tried. I have also fitted RMC saddles when MIDI is required and the Fishman Rare Earth is a good soundhole pickup. Gold hardware in by Schaller or Gotoh. Rosewood fingerboard. Silk finish as standard. Hand made to order, so choices include -
Footnote on Sizes. Long after I had finished this page somebody called me to ask about the sizes of the bodies of my acoustic guitars because it is not at all obvious from the pictures! I had stupidly not thought of this. So here, below, are the sizes of the various models. What I also forgot to mention is that the body depths can be altered so that, for example, an ASAP can have a deeper body which would increase the internal volume and thereby lower the resonant frequency thus giving more bass. Similarly an ASAP Jumbo could have a shallower depth which would decrease the internal volume and have the opposite effect. The customer only has to ask. This is one of the things that hand makers can do to make instruments better suited to the player but which factories would not be bothered with. Another size variant is the scale length. The standard acoustic length I use is 650mm with the exception of the JM model which is 628mm. To order I have built guitars of the ASAP range with scales from 620mm to 690mm. |
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Depth figures are for 'standard' models but due to the way I build the guitars the depths can be altered to suit a customer's need. Additionally the body depth for the cutaway models is generally a little deeper to compensate for the extra treble that is created by the stiffening of the top that a cutaway creates. |