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Rodolfo Cucculelli - Guitar Maker

Gallery 1



Silhouette: Ignacio Fleta.
String length: 65,04 cm.
Soundboard: Alerce Patagónico.
Back and sides: Indian Rosewood.
Fretboard: Ebony.
Bridge: Brazilian Rosewood.
Tuning machine: Schaller gold (Hauser model).
Polish: Shellac by hand.
Fan bracing: Own.
Rosette: Based on a Manuel Rodríguez's model, but done with bone and ebony instead of mother of pearl and Ebony.
Neck: Paraguayan Cedar, American Oak, Ebony, Cedar. With a truss-rod adjustable from the soundhole. It is the same design the bridge and head plate has.
Head plate silhouette: Santos Hernández (1923).
Brazilian Rosewood plate with central ornament in bone and Ebony.
Nut: Bone.
Detail of the rosette: Inlaided on soundboard of Alerce Patagónico.
Central mosaic: Taken from a spanish rosette.
Interior and exterior ornaments: Made by hand in ebony and bone.
All this joined and glued with animal glue.
This rosette design belongs to a Manuel Ramírez's one.
Comment: Stringed with 4th, 5th and 6th Agustine Regals and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of Carbon Hannabach high tension: this combination is special for tango music.
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