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Rodolfo Cucculelli - Guitar Maker

Gallery 4



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11 Strings Guitar.
String length: 1° - 7°: 55,05 cm.
Soundboard: Italian Spruce.
Back: Brazilian Rosewood
Sides: Black Carob (Algarrobo Negro).
Fretboard: Brazilian Rosewood.
Bridge: Brazilian Rosewood with bone saddle.
Neck: Paraguayan Cedar taken of an old door. With two truss-rod adjustable by the soundhole.
Tuning machine: Schaller Gold (Hauser model).
Polish: Shellac by hand.
Rosette: Mother of pearl over an ebony back.
Rosette design: Own.
The rosette is oval to let all the strings be connected with the air of the acoustic sound box. The circular holes increase the virtual diameter of the sound hole.
Made by hand in Mother of pearl and Abalone with ebony powder and cianoacrilate.
Frets: Nickel, tall.
Middle back ornamental line: Brazilian Rosewood.
Silhouette: Own.
Comments: Made as a prototype of another of 13 strings for the concert guitar player Alejandro Caputo, inspired in the guitar of Göran Söllscher, made by Georg Bolin.
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