JUMBO MODELS

An earlier version of this tight waisted Jumbo model was my first standard design, with the prototypes still being used by Richard Durrant and Nick Pynn as their main guitars. If you like larger guitars but want more versatility and greater responsiveness to fingerstyle techniques than a standard Dreadnought design can give then this model is a great choice with it's bright sustaining trebles and deep piano-like bass. This shape is newly updated and refined for 2007.

Traditionally tight waisted Jumbo guitars derived partly from archtop shapes and were mainly used for strummed accompaniment. Modern makers have found that with a lighter build and updated design this body size can be ideal for fingerstyle playing, producing great depth in low tunings and beautiful sustain and clarity. Cedar topped Jumbos can also produce a characteristic harmonically rich and explosive tone beloved by many contemporary players.

I also offer the Jumbo as a Baritone guitar.

Left and right: 'New Standard' Jumbo with 'Scoop' cutaway, wedge body, Amazon rosewood and Sitka spruce with Bloodwood edgings.

*STOP PRESS* I am currently building a new 'Midi-Jumbo' (MJ) model. It has virtually the same shape as the full Jumbo model but is slightly smaller (400mm wide instead of 415mm at the lower bout). This model will have a ringing, present tone with a well defined but deep bass, ideal for low tunings and explosive percussive styles or great as a vocal accompaniment. instrument.

I built a modified version of my Jumbo model to replace Eric Roche's very worn main guitar. It had special internal reinforcements for Eric's body percussion techniques and a harder wearing spruce scratch-plate for his wood scratching sound. An RMC synth pickup system plus a Fishman Rarearth Blend pickup were fitted to get Eric's unique live sound.

This prototype guitar is now being used by Newton Faulkner and has been updated with LR Baggs M1 pickup plus Dual Source mic and preamp.

I now offer the Jumbo in my new 'Percussion' construction to resist percussive body techniques and work well in the low tunings and for all the progressive techniques used by many modern players.

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