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Melbourne Guitar Makers Festival
"Melbourne Guitar Makers festival is an opportunity to see and play some beautiful handmade guitars, and meet the people who make them, in an intimate setting.
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These instruments are seldom seen in shops, and the workshops of the
makers are often off the beaten track.
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Its great to see photos online, or occasionally find a gem in a shop somewhere. But nothing compares to sitting with the instruments, playing them and hearing them played.
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To have a range of guitars and makers together,
and available for a whole weekend is a rare thing!" |
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Melbourne
Guitarmakers
Festival
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Cloud Nine Guitars Specifications
(Pictured from left to Right) |
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1. MAPLE "WALKBOUT" MINI
Top, back, sides and neck -
highly figured maple.
Shallow body
Fingerboard and bridge ebony
Bindings ebony
Scale - 576 mm
Tuners grover
Fishman system
2. BLACKWOOD "OOO"
Blackwood back and sides
Maple neck
Engelmann spruce top
Fingerboard and bridge ebony
Waverley tuners
Mother of pearl nut
Fishman system
Snowflake paua inlays
3. FIREWHEEL OAK "OM"
Back and sides solid firewheel oak
Soundboard Solid sitka
Neck Queensland maple
Fingerboard and bridge gidgee
Bindings ebony
Rosette herringbone
Scale 25.4" 14th fret
Gotoh tuners
4. RAINTREE "LOO"
Back and sides solid raintree
Soundboard solid sitka
Neck Queensland maple
Fingerboard and bridge gidgee
Bindings ebony
Rosette chevron tan, creme brown
with B/W/B edge
Scale 25.4" 14th fret
Gotoh tuners |
5. MAPLE "CUMULUS"
Back and sides solid figured maple
Soundboard solid bearclaw spruce
Neck Queensland Maple
Fingerboard and bridge ebony
Bindings ebony
Rosette ebonised maple
Florentine cutaway
Scale 25.4" 14th fret
Inlay OOOMMM
Mother of pearl in mahogany
6. SAPELE "OM"
Back, sides and neck solid sapele
Top solid sitka
Fingerboard and bridge macassar ebony
Inlays geckos
Bindings koa
Scale 25.4" 14th fret
Gotoh tuners
Fishman system
8. RED OAK 8 STRING "LOO" (not pictured)
Top,back and sides red Queensland oak
Neck mahogany
Fingerboard gidgee
Bridge rosewood
Bindings ebony
Rosette - multicolour
Scale 24.9" 13 fret join
Gotoh tuners
O/B fishman +T system |
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In 2010 Cloud Nine Guitars represented by Stu Forbes & Billy Tarrant; travelled to Melbourne where they proudly
exhibited several of our Unique Custom Built Range of Guitars.
"HOT OFF THE JIGS"
Check out the preview picture (left) of what we call the most expensive timber "Mobile" in our workshop location "Paradise" in tropical Far North Queensland -Port Douglas. |
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