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This Big Hoss guitar is one of the best all around guitars we have ever heard. It has thunderous bass. The resonant frequency of this guitar’s top is more than 20 hertz below that of a really good Martin OM. The result is a guitar which can loudly reproduce low frequency notes superbly. Yet, it produces crystal clean trebles with tremendous sustain, and gets louder as one plays up higher on the fingerboard. It is a fantastic fingerstyle guitar.
However, this guitar is quite schizophrenic. A player can strum or flat pick this guitar about as hard as one wants, and it still sounds great. The sound is clear and clean with a full spectrum voice.
Recently, well known, classically trained, singer-songwriter and guitar -piano virtuoso, Susan Werner used this guitar in concert. After the concert she was asked what she thought of the guitar. Susan is known for her intelligent wit. She replied, “After playing that thing, playing my (delete name of very popular American made guitar) is like playing a coffee table. That’s how responsive this guitar is.”
The rosette is an image of a Comanche War Horse. It contains 77 pieces of inlay. It is made of awabi abalone, black phenolic, coral, red pearl polyester, turquoise, paua abalone, and acrylic.
Specifications – Top – X braced Italian Alpine Spruce; back and sides – European bird’s eye maple; neck – American Red bird’s eye maple; fingerboard – ebony; scale length – 25.5 inches, 21 frets; nut width – 1.75 inches; K&K pickup installed; Tuners – Graphtech Ratio.
Rear access panel, adjustable playing action, triple; laminated sides.
Price $9800 with gig bag. Calton case available for an additional $1100. Crossrock fiber glass case available for $400.
This guitar embodies all the best of a Big Hoss model. Like all Lame Horse guitars, the woods are are selected scientifically to be aesthetically and sonically close to perfect. In addition it has the artistic design most folks expect in a Lame Horse guitar. This instrument, in addition to all of the standard Lame Horse features, is fitted with Tibetan turquoise inlays, Tibetan turquoise purflings on the body, fingerboard, and headstock, and a rosette of Tibetian turquoise with gold and black accents. The interior of the sides of the guitar is gilded with gold foil. Horses, each carved from one solid piece of black phenolic are running down the sides on the interior of the guitar. Ebony fingerboard. 25.5″ scale length. 1.75″ nut width. 2.5 ” string spread at saddle. 12″ at nut to 20″ at saddle, true compound conical radius on fingerboard. 350:1 adjustment ratio on the playing action. Calton travel case included. Please make inquiries to Fellowship of Acoustics, www.tfoa, +31 523 232 205, Moerheimstraat 144, Dedemsvaart, Netherlands.
THIS GUITAR IS SOLD!
This guitar features the beautifully refined, simple rosette and Bolivian rosewood inside linings of a Work Hoss model with the gloss acrylic urethane finish, exquisite Italian Alpine spruce top, and 350:1 playing action adjustment ratio of a Big Hoss model. This Italian top is one of the most beautiful we have ever seen, and highest rated in terms of sound radiation coefficient. The silking is evident from one side of the top to the other. The tone and volume are magnificent. They should be. Not only is the top backed up by a tremendous set of Honduran rosewood, but the top was harvested from the Val di Fiemme. This is the very small forest in Northern Italy where Stradivari sourced all of his top wood for his instruments. Indian rosewood fingerboard. 25.5″ scale length. 1.75″ nut width. 2.5 ” string spread at saddle. 12″ at nut to 20″ at saddle, true compound conical radius on fingerboard. A custom Calton travel case (retail price $1500) is included.
This guitar features a western red cedar top with cocobolo back and sides. The scale length is 25.5″. Although a nylon string instrument, this guitar is made with playing comfort in mind. The finger board sports a compound radius, starting at the nut at 16″. The fingerboard is 1.875″ wide at the nut. The top features a traditional version of Torres 7 fan bracing. The rosette is a Celtic horse of awabi abalone. All of the typical Lame Horse features are here, including adjustable playing action, access panel, and upgraded VS Tuners. Please take a look at the photos below, and listen to the sound sample included with video below. Price $10,900.
SOLD!
Please check out an audio sample of the guitar on this video. The recording was made with one SE5200 microphone directly to a Tascam digital recorder. The recording is not modified in any way. No equalization or effects were added. What you hear is all guitar, nothing else.
Contact us about this beautiful OM. Specs – Top-Engelmann spruce. Back and sides – highly figured katalox. Neck 7 piece Honduran mahogany. Fingerboard – ebony. Bridge – Indian rosewood. Scale length – 25.5” 14 fret. Rosette – pomelle bubinga, red abalone, turquoise, with 10 sound holes, side port. Head plate – pommelle bubinga. VS tuners with ebony buttons. Rear access panel. Adjustable playing action. $10,900- SOLD
This black topped Italian alpine spruce – Madagascar rosewood guitar is our latest OM. It features a Venetian cutaway, ebony fingerboard, a nontraditionally shaped sound hole, Macassar ebony bindings, Tibitian turquoise purflings, and Tibetian turquoise buttons on custom VS tuners. The rosette is crafted from away abalone, Tibetian turquoise, green abalone, and black pearl. Of course, like all Lame Horse Guitars, it features adjustable playing action, multi laminate Honduran mahogany neck, and a rear access panel.
At Lame Horse Instruments, we understand that building a custom guitar is a large investment, which is why we are committed to delivering exceptional quality and craftsmanship in every project we undertake. Let us help you turn your dream instrument into a reality. Custom is what we do. Contact us today to get started!