GR Bear, you can build us a guitar any day. This preowned 2019 OM is a phenomenal instrument with a surgically precise voice and elegant aesthetics. Highly figured Fiddleback Tasmanian Blackwood are paired with a salvaged Red Cedar top for clarity balanced with warmth; dialed in for the fingerstylist. The Cedar top here has a personal provenance from the builder himself: “ I went on a road trip to Haida Gwaii last year with my wife and son. One day my son and I were waking down the beach and I came across this massive cedar stump that had beautiful tight even grain and I thought I want some of that for tops! I asked the locals about salvaging some of the log and got permission from an indigenous Haida man to harvest what I could from the log. I rented a chain saw and loaded up our tiny Toyota Corolla for the 24hr drive home to Vancouver!”
A striking red Padauk bridge sets off the color of the top and Tasmanian Blackwood rosette. We love the stepped headstock and understated visual style. A soundport and hemispherical EVO fret ends rounds out the image. Bear utilizes a carbon falcate bracing scheme for the top, and the result is precision and power for days.
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We are anxiously awaiting our first custom guitar from GR Bear, he is one of our newest makers to join the Dream Guitars team. But this one is holding us over. The voice is magical and the woods are simply stunning. Everything he does is unique and special as you will see. | Scale Length | 25.4 in |
|---|---|
| Nut Width | 1.81 in |
| String Spacing | 2.25 in |
| Woods | Cedar, Blackwood - Tasmanian |
GR Bear, you can build us a guitar any day. This preowned 2019 OM is a phenomenal instrument with a surgically precise voice and elegant aesthetics
We are anxiously awaiting our first custom guitar from GR Bear, he is one of our newest makers to join the Dream Guitars team. But this one is holding us over 