MasterDesign by Tanglewood Guitars News: Tanglewood Guitars have teamed up with Master Luthier Michael Sanden to bring you the MasterDesign range of acoustic guitars, a range of high-quality instruments that are bound to impress.
Tanglewood Masterdesign Guitar designer Michael Sanden studied to be a luthier under Bozo Padunavac and Goerg Bolin in San Diego and he’s been a Master member of the Guild of American Luthiers since 1983. He now lives and works with his wife, Kari, in a little village called Gärsnäs in Sweden. His sleek, modern design, along with the use of only the best materials such as Tibetan Sitka Spruce and Indian Kerala Rosewood, makes the Tanglewood MasterDesign guitars truly inspirational instruments.
Tanglewood MasterDesign Guitars
The Tanglewood MasterDesign jumbo-esque spruce/rosewood auditorium and jumbo guitars are a concise range of upmarket models produced by Tanglewood in collaboration with the highly regarded Swedish luthier, Michael Sanden. Features of Sanden’s originals include the paintbrush-stroke bridge, tapered curvy-top peg head and a zero fret, and they’re all here on these elegant looking instruments. The slick mahogany/ebony neck has an intermediate 44mm nut span. The craftsmanship is to a very high standard, with trim including mahogany body bindings and front and rear rosewood headstock cappings. It’s not externally obvious but the TSR are actually electro acoustics, carrying a non-invasive B-Band A1.2 active endpin system with a volume thumbwheel hidden just inside the sound hole.
Tanglewood TSR 1 Auditorium Body Shape
Tanglewood TSR 2 Grand Auditorium Body Shape - Winner of Best Electro 2008.
Tanglewood TSR 3 Jumbo Body Shape
Tanglewood MasterDesign Features:
- Solid Spruce top
- Solid Rosewood back & sides
- Twin piece Mahogany neck
- Mahogany binding
- Ebony bridge
- Ebony nut
- Ebony bridge pins with Abalone dots
- Rosewood fingerboard with 21 frets & 0 fret
- Abalone T Logo on fretboard at 12th fret position
- Indian Rosewood headstock veneer
- Two way adjustable truss rod
- Gold Grover machine heads with black buttons
- Bone saddle
- Abalone rosette
- Neck width 0 Fret: 44mm
- Neck width 12th Fret: 55mm
- 650mm Scale length
- All gloss finish
- Fitted with a B-Band A1 system
- Elixir 012-53 strings
- Comes with a Tanglewood SKB Deluxe hard case
Michael Sanden speaks about the Tanglewood MasterDesign Guitars:
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