Custom Guitars

Combination Percussive Guitar
Steel String Face

Sound Board Rosette
Neck
Head Plate
Finger Board
Bridges
Turning Machines
Sides
Binding
Purfling
Harp
Turkish Drum
Tabla
All Nuts & Saddles

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Sitka Spruce
Custom
Mahogany
Indian Rosewood
Ebony
Ebony
Schaller
Indian Rosewood
Ebony
Maple (white/black/white/black)
Mahogany Soundboard with Maple Back and Sides
Sandal Wood Shell
Teak Wood Shell
Camel Bone

Pics above are of the steel string face of a custom combination percussive guitar. This face features a Turkish Drum and a Tabla at the upper and lower bout respectively.

Further, 20 sympathetic strings run across the body, below the main course of six steel strings.

22 Harp Strings from an independent sound-box positioned inside the body of the guitar, emerge from just below the main steel string bridge. These Harp Strings are attached to tuning pegs at the lower bout leaving adequate room for picking them.

The other side (back of the guitar under normal circumstances) is a Classical Guitar. Please see pics below.

This steel string-nylon string combination guitar seems to be a good option for those Troubadours who don't want to carry two guitars. A steel string and a classical. The guitar pictured above sounds great, especially the classical side of it.

There are 54 strings in total on this instrument.

Combination Percussive Guitar - Classical Face

Above photos by Fototech ( Gerard Santamaria & Hari )

Sound Board
Rosette
Neck
HeadPlate
FingerBoard
Bridge
Turning Machines
Sides
Binding
Purfling
Nuts & Saddle

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Western Red Cedar
Custom
Spanish Cedar
Brazilian Rosewood
Ebony
Brazilian Rosewood
Sloane/Waverly
Indian Rosewood
Ebony
Maple (white/black/white/black)
Camel Bone

Sound Board
Back & Sides
Neck
HeadPlate
FingerBoard
Bridge
Binding
Purfling
Turning Machines
Nuts & Saddle
Scale Length
Body

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Western Red Cedar
Maple
Spanish Cedar
Brazilian Rosewood
Ebony
Brazilian Rosewood
Ebony
Maple (white/black/white/black)
Sloane/Waverly
Bone
640 mm
Don Antonio de Torres (FE 18)