2002 Nickerson Guitars D-55 - Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar
Here's a very pretty dreadnought from Brad Nickerson featuring a rare Bearclaw top with 3 dimensional figure. Combined with a Brazilian Bridge, brown pickguard and double abalone rosette, the look is very unique and sublime. The voice is excellent for singer/songwriter and accompaniament work. This is a dread you don't have to hit hard to get a full voice. This is a ton of quality at a terrific price. Good woods, nice attention to detail, great for fingerstyle, strumming, or flat picking... how can you go wrong?
Audio played by Al Petteway
Artists who play instruments by this builder: Agostino DiGiorgio Prof. Jazz Guitar, Sean McGowan - Award-winning guitarist & professor of music at University of Colorado at Denver
Here's a very pretty dreadnought from Brad Nickerson featuring a rare Bearclaw top with 3 dimensional figure. Combined with a Brazilian Bridge, brown pickguard and double abalone rosette, the look is very unique and sublime. The voice is excellent for singer/songwriter and accompaniament work. This is a dread you don't have to hit hard to get a full voice. This is a ton of quality at a terrific price. Good woods, nice attention to detail, great for fingerstyle, strumming, or flat picking... how can you go wrong?
- Woods & Trim
- Back/Sides: Indian Rosewood
- Top Wood: Bearclaw Spruce
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Neck Wood: Mahogany
- Bridge: Brazilian Rosewood
- Rosette: Abalone
- Binding: Light colored wood
- Fingerboard Bindings: Ebony
- Headplate: burled walnut
- Headstock Bindings: None
- Headstock Inlay: Builder Logo
- Top Trim: Wood Lines
- Back Strip: None
- Fret Markers: 12th-fret custom inlay
- Tuners: Schaller Minis
- Tuner Finish: Chrome
- Measurements
- Body Size: Dreadnought
- Scale: 25 1/2 in. (647.7 mm)
- Nut Width: 1 3/4 in. (44.5 mm)
- String Spacing: 2 1/8 in. (54 mm)
- Body Length: 20 in.
- Upper Bout: 11 3/8 in.
- Lower Bout: 15 5/8 in.
- Serial #: 894
- Body Depth @Neck Heel: 3 7/8 in.
- Body Depth @Tail Block: 4 5/8 in.
- Frets to body: 14
- Extras
- Cutaway: None
- Pickguard: Tortoise Style
- Case: Hardshell Case
- Pickup: None
- Condition: Excellent, few tiny marks but very, very clean.
Player Reviews:
"I LOVE this top! I'm a sucker for lots of bearclaw, particularly when it's as symmetrical as this top is. It give the whole guitar a great character. This guitar is a great strumming, nice chimey top end and round bass. I can hear it on stage with any rhythm player or singer songwriter. Plus it would look way cool..." - Paul Heumiller
"I love the tone and playability of this dreadnought. It's got the perfect balance for any style flatpicking." - Al Petteway
"Wow, this is a very nice dread at a very attractive price. Power to spare, a punchy but very musical tone, great playability... I especially like the tone of the basses and mids here, and the trebles have a nice sweetness as well. It also holds up beautifully to a hard strum. " - Al Schlimm
