#073 Circle Chicagoan ( aka “Fresco” )
2021 Chicagoan (#073)
(For “Shop Concert” video featuring this guitar, click here)
Specifications
- 17″ Lower Bout, 3″ depth
- X-Braced, Cutaway
- Select Romanian Spruce Top
- Figured Honduran Mahogany Back and Sides
- Flamed Honduran Mahogany neck
- Circle, asymmetrical soundholes
- Upper sound hole port
- 1.75″ Bone Nut Width
- 12″ Fingerboard Radius
- 24.75″ scale
- Macassar ebony Fingerboard
- Art deco inspired fingerboard inlay
- Elliptical side position markers in Mother of Pearl, (12th fret hollowed)
- Art deco inlay on headstock and also on tailpiece
- Hand carved Macassar Ebony Tailpiece and compensated/adjustable bridge
- Macassar Ebony Headstock veneers
- Flame Maple Binding with violin style flamed maple purfling
- Gotoh 510 HAP Tuners with Ebony buttons
- Turned Aluminum endpin with Ebony strap button
- Oil varnish finish
- Low wind Kent Armstrong humbucker with “Koentopp” neck mount
073 Circle Chicagoan, “Fresco”
#073 in its natural environment
The System
Figured “Beeswing” Honduran Mahogany
Upper Back with purfling detail
Close up of heel
Lower back
Honduran Mahogany Back and Sides
Portrait of waist and sound port
Close up of heel transition and elliptical mother of pearl side position inlays
Upper sound port and simple but elegant Art Deco fingerboard inlay
Back arch in perspective
Macassar Ebony headstock with Art Deco inlay
Carved and matched tailpiece with Art Deco theme
Port, hole, and Bridge
#073 Front perspective
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