Brand new and brimming with character, this 2025 Applegate SJ in Cocobolo & Cedar is a singular voice in the modern fingerstyle world. The Cedar top offers a wealth of warmth and sonority, while the Cocobolo back and sides provide bold clarity and projection—an uncommon pairing, but one that delivers a remarkably expressive and powerful response.
Featuring a Venetian cutaway, luminous abalone appointments, and a striking five-piece neck, this guitar is as visually captivating as it is tonally rich. Standard fingerstyle dimensions ensure effortless playability and articulation, but it’s the voice—deeply resonant, articulate, and unmistakably refined—that truly sets this instrument apart.
This is a lot of guitar, with a lot to say. Please check it out for yourself—you won’t hear another quite like it.
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The voice is open, bold, and intimate all at once—like it’s been played in for decades. Something about the way the woods interact here is just magic. 
Sparkle on top meets fire and muscle at the bottom. This Applegate mixes up sweetly across the registers, and man I keep coming back to something about the bottom two strings, there's a kind of second wave of color after the initial attack that's particularly captivating. Fit and finish is typical of Brian's work, which is to say crisp and clean, with a slinky setup to boot. Cedar plus Cocobolo makes for a helluva wood combo, I'm sold. | Scale Length | 25.4 in |
|---|---|
| Nut Width | 1.75 in |
| String Spacing | 2.25 in |
| Woods | Cedar, Rosewood - Cocobolo |
Brand new and brimming with character, this 2025 Applegate SJ in Cocobolo & Cedar is a singular voice in the modern fingerstyle world. The Cedar top offers a wealth of warmth and sonority, while the Cocobolo back and sides provide bold clarity and projection—an uncommon pairing, but one that delivers a remarkably expressive and powerful response
The voice is open, bold, and intimate all at once—like it’s been played in for decades. Something about the way the woods interact here is just magic.
Sparkle on top meets fire and muscle at the bottom. This Applegate mixes up sweetly across the registers, and man I keep coming back to something about the bottom two strings, there's a kind of second wave of color after the initial attack that's particularly captivating Select at least 2 products
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