Item 32
Price: $45,000
Appraised Value 2016: $30,000
Appraised Value 2021: $45,000
This guitar’s two-piece soundboard is of book matched quartersawn Swiss spruce with grain spacing of 24 per inch near the center to 14 per inch near the lower bouts. The grain structure is near perfect showing much medullary grain and no runout. The rosette has a central ring of “parentheses” shapes set into a black background surrounded by circles of olive green and brown. The rosewood bridge has its tie-block capped with bone. The back is rosewood with an unusual wavy grain pattern, and the sides are rosewood. The neck and head are cedar, and the face of the head is veneered with flame-grained rosewood. Precise Rodgers-engraved tuning machines with plates shaped to match the top of the head and with mother-of-pearl grips are fitted. The guitar is finished with French polish of shellac.
Field builds using traditional artisan luthier skills and methods without CNC machines or heavy woodworking machinery, so his output is only seven guitars maximum per year. Because demand is so much greater than supply, the waiting time for a Field guitar stands at 17 years.
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