Introducing this guitar from Hozen Guitars Red Label Series. This OM features an Adirondack Spruce top with Flamed Maple Back & Sides.
Hozen is a Singaporean guitar builder who understudied with Ervin Somogyi for
voicing. He founded Maestro Guitars in 2004 and has been building Maestro
guitars until today. This pandemic season made him realize that time is
limited, and the future is indeed uncertain. He now sees guitar making from a
new perspective. He wants to spend his days building guitars as if they are his
own to keep, with limits bounded only by his imagination. He started
conceptualizing every fine detail that he would like to see in his own
instruments. Many of the designs are inspired by amazing builders he knows
personally but done up with a twist – a personal touch. It’s never his
intention to reinvent the acoustic guitar but only to make the original better.
Hozen guitars are born from his desire to give his all as though there is no
tomorrow.
Hozen Guitars differ from
the Maestro line as every single piece is unique in design and specifications.
It would be unlikely he will make the same thing again unless it’s
commissioned. Every instrument is done in the highest workmanship under Maestro
Guitar’s build-to-order program whereby he is personally involved in the
design, voicing, and crafting of the instrument.
SPECIFICATIONS
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SHAPE 14-Fret OM
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SOUNDBOARD Solid
Adirondack Spruce
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BACK &
SIDES Flamed Maple
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ROSETTE Wooden
Lines
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BINDING Flamed Maple
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PURFLING Wooden
Lines
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LINING Reversed
Kerfing
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BRACING Traditional
X Brace
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BRACING
MATERIAL Quarter-Sawn Sitka Spruce
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NECK Carbon
Fiber Reinforced Khaya Mahogany
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NECK
JOINT Dovetail
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FINGERBOARD Ebony
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FINGERBOARD
BINDING Flamed Maple
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FRETS Sanko
HV160 2.4mm Nickel Silver
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BRIDGE Ebony
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NUT &
SADDLE MATERIAL Unbleached Bone
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BRIDGE
PINS Ebony
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HEADSTOCK
STYLE Slotted Headstock
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MACHINE
HEADS Grover Open Gear 18:1
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STRINGS Elixir
Phosphor Bronze Nanoweb Light .012 – .053
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FINISH Polyurethane
Super High Gloss
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SETUP PLEK
Setup
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CASE Wooden
Hardcase
DIMENSIONS
LENGTH 995 mm BODY LENGTH 515 mm LOWER BOUT 382 mm WAIST 230 mm DEPTH 112 mm SCALE LENGTH 640 mm NUT WIDTH 44 mm STRING SPACING – NUT 36.5 mm AVE. STRING SPACING – NUT 7.3 mm STRING SPACING – SADDLE 54.4 mm AVE. STRING SPACING – SADDLE 10.89 mm FINGERBOARD RADIUS 14″ NECK THICKNESS – NUT 24 mm NECK THICNKESS – 12th FRET 34 mm
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