DMG003
For my third instrument, I decided to experiment with several unusual design features. Fanned frets, seven strings, a florentine cutaway and an experimental back bracing pattern all feature on this unique instrument.
Specifications:
| Overview | Steel-strung seven-string acoustic guitar |
| Body Shape | Martin 000, self-designed florentine cutaway |
| Number of frets clear | 14 |
| Construction | Dowelled tenon |
| Top bracing | Off-centre X, my own design |
| Back bracing | Double-X |
| Back & Sides | Highly flamed European walnut |
| Top | European Spruce |
| Neck | Seven-piece laminate of rosewood, maple, ebony and flamed sycamore with twisted headstock. |
| Fretboard | Ebony |
| Bridge | Ebony |
| Headstock veneer | Ebony |
| Heel cap | Ebony |
| End graft | Brazilian rosewood |
| Body binding | Brazilian rosewood |
| Headstock binding | None |
| Fingerboard binding | None |
| Purfling | Black |
| Rosette | Brazilian rosewood spiral |
| Fretboard markers | Brazilian rosewood side blocks with maple binding |
| Logo | DMG decal |
| Nut & saddle | Graphite composite |
| Machine heads | Gotoh |
| Bridge pins | Ebony |
| Fret size | Medium |
| Scale length | 736.6mm (29″) - bass side. 647.7mm (25.5″) - treble side. |
| Nut width | 55mm |
| String width at nut | - |
| Neck width at 12th fret | 63mm |
| String width at bridge | - |
| Fretboard radius | 16″ |
| Electronics | None |