alistairm Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Price: $13500 Item Condition: Excellent Shipping Options: Pickup available but audition is not available.,Shipping is included in price. Suburb or Town: Hunters Hill State: New South Wales Payment Method: Paypal, EFT, Cash Reason for selling: Need the space Joel Sahlstrom 000 custom build. Ancient Sitka top (carbon dated to 2850 years old), master grade vintage sugar maple back, sides and neck (milled in the 1970s for cello wood, cured and dried since then), ebony bridge, fingerboard and binding. The dark, glacial stained top and dense maple canvas back and sides embody 3000 years of witnessed history and are given a voice for the first time on this guitar. This guitar is incredibly responsive and powerful. It sounds even more gorgeous than it looks. It is also absolutely unique. I have owned it since new and only very seldom played it. I have accumulated (far) too many guitars and need to move some along to make space in the media room. The guitar has been setup by Jeff Mallia and has a lovely action. I have some room to move on price. I am very keen to see the guitar remain in Australia. Photos: Advertisements without photos of the actual item will not be approved. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippi Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 what an exceptional guitar!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Cale Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 A work of art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaky Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Looks like a VERY flat radius fret board there Alister. Form the photos it seems like it's been built like a Classical, but for Steel strings. Finger picking specialists might like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistairm Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 55 minutes ago, Tweaky said: Looks like a VERY flat radius fret board there Alister. Form the photos it seems like it's been built like a Classical, but for Steel strings. Finger picking specialists might like this Joel apprenticed to Jim Olson and the similarlity in the neck feel to my Olsons is noticeable. Now you've got me curious... how do I measure the radius? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magneto Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 https://www.fender.com/articles/tech-talk/what-is-fingerboard-radius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaky Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) This YouTube video shows how you can mark out various radius on a sheet of paper. I'm guessing that guitar would be a 14"or 16"radius, which is as close as flat for all intended purposes. I understand having a flat radius on a Classical guitar is the best for the complicated fingering classical music can ask of the guitarist, but on anything else, for me personally, flat fretboards leave me cold. Ibanez electrics all have flat fretboads, I just don't like the feel. I actually head in the complete other direction re fretboard radius, my latest Tele build has the old 7.5" radius. Which is OK for chords, but you can get them fretting out when string bending unless you have done a very good job dressing the frets and setting the bridge up. You are also resigned to using smaller vintage style frets on these older radius necks. That's basically how compound radius neck sort of came about. People like Stevie Ray used to wear out the frets on their guitars so often, that eventually the fretboards had to be leveled to take the new frets, the result was the fretboard ended up being flatter from the normal 7.5"radius about the 10th fret down. He found that after the levelling he wasn't having as much trouble when bending strings, so the next time he needed a refret he got the guy to flatten it a bit more, and he also had bass frets put on, reason being he thought they would last longer. The compound radius neck as we know it, was born out of that. It's also how we ended up with Jumbo frets fitted on a lot of new guitars, although again, not for everybody...I find hitting chords on a guitar with jumbo frets a bit problematic, as a lot of the notes will be out of tune unless your finger pressure at each fretted note is exactly the same....Medium Jumbo frets it's not so noticeable Edited April 25, 2020 by Tweaky 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippi Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Awesome rundown @Tweaky !!!! I'm on the other end of the spectrum - love the flatter fretboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gator2310 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 20 hours ago, zippi said: Awesome rundown @Tweaky !!!! I'm on the other end of the spectrum - love the flatter fretboard. Me too - my custom made archtops both have flatter f/b's and wide too - but I do have big hands and use fingers a lot. But still prefer the curve on a tele. Nice guitar btw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxon Hall Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 What a magnificent bit of workmanship. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patjoy Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 Amazing!! What a unique instrument. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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