Decacorde Guitar

Ten stringed Classical guitar, scale length 650 mm., Italian Spruce and Indian Rosewood.

Sound box template: Odriozola / Cucculelli.

Scale length: 65 cm.

Overall length of ten strings guitar: 106 cm.

Soundboard: Italian Alpine Spruce (Picea Excelsa).

Soundhole Rosette: Oval, with mother of pearl inlays in a black Ebony mastic

Bridge: African Wenge (Millettia Laurentii).

Saddle: Bone.

String spacing ( at bridge saddle) from 1^st to 10^th string: 99 mm.

Back and Sides: East Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia Latifolia).

Soundbox sizes: length: 49.5 cm.

upper bout: 28.2 cm.

waist: 24.2 cm.

lower bout: 36.9 cm.

soundboard depth: 97 mm / 110 mm.

Purfling: Flamed Maple with white/black maple stained strips.

Neck: African Mahogany (Khaya Senegalensis), with two reinforced strips of Indian Rosewood

(Dalbergia Latifolia), and two truss rod adjustable from the soundhole.

neck thickness at nut: 18 mm., at 12^th fret: 20 mm.

neck wide at nut: 87 mm., at 12^th fret: 101 mm.

Nut: bone.

Peghead, headstock: The general design was proposed by my customer, Gianni Fazzone, so I had

to adjust the original idea to the wood work. The result is a very elegant ten

string guitar.

The headplate is made of Indian Rosewood with a flamed maple center strip.

Tuners: Schaller, Lyramodel, gold

Fingerboard: Ebony (Diospyros Ebenum), with two side mother of pearl dots in the 5^th and the 7^th fret.

Wide of the fingerboard at nut: 87 mm., at 12^th fret: 101 mm.

Frets: 20, nickel, tall, hard.

Varnish: Shellac “a Muñeca” (French Polish)

10 string guitar tuning: [e’-b-g-d-a-E-D-C-B-A].

Rodolfo Cucculelli, custom guitars.

Multi-string Classical guitar ~ Scale 640 mm. ~ European Spruce and Indian Rosewood

You will appreciate the sound of this guitar played by my frien Andy Ramos:

“Testigo del Alma” ~ Andy Ramos: http://chitarre.myblog.it/media/00/00/648169931.mp3

Buenos Aires - Andy Ramos (con Richard Coleman).

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Rodolfo Cucculelli, luthier.